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From: "Alexey Eremenko"
Well, this article point at two well-known problems: cross-distro packaging and cross-distro compatibility. Those problems are old as a linux world. Which doesn't prevents my father and mother use Linux successfully.
There are many solutions that try to solve both problems (such as Autopackage and klik), but the most serious undertake is the LSB, The Linux Standards Base.
He makes a valid point. From the average user's point of view, some things tend to install easier with Windows. My most recent experience, went to a website that required flash-player 9. On windows the download and install went smooth. On my linux suse-10 the install didn't go as smooth, the rpm provided by Adobe installed the plugin in the wrong place, something like /usr/..., but it was supposed to go /opt/MozillaFirefox/.. I love linux, using since suse-8, would never go back to windows, but windows does make some things easier on the "average joe" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org