Onder
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- Apr 10, 2006
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You've been using Linux for 6 hours, and you think you've nailed it... that's cute. Let's see what you think a month or two from now, when you've had time to remember the rest of the programs you need, which you're used to installing in < 5 minutes on Windows, while on Linux they require 20+ hours of hacking your way through bizarre chains of program dependencies, until you ultimately conclude "hm, maybe I can get by without half the programs I normally use."![]()
Haha. I should probably say I'm not moving to Linux entirely, I just need it for some statistics and data processing in R. But what you said here, it really do be like that, I'm attending a course on R next week and the teacher sent us a list of like 40 packages we will use, saying "if you can, install those". Well I thought I could, started doing it through terminal, but it turned out that each one of the packages required 5 different packages to be installed beforehand and every second attempt yielded a screen full of errors. Only after several hours I found out I could install the packages through R-studio which actually provides some user-friendliness as it attempts to solve some of the issues on its own but even then I had to deal with a lot of errors in the terminal.
All in all, I hate it and love it at the same time, but I'm definitely not moving to Linux for my personal fucking-around.