Orchid XP v7 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> >> The best part is when you say "make configure", and it says 
> >> "Unrecognised arch 'i586/SuSE 10.3'". And you're like "WTF? Now what do 
> >> I do??"
> > 
> >   Yes, it's clearly a problem with *linux* when some software you are
> > trying to install is broken.

> Right. And the fact that the design of Unix is overly complex and 
> incorporates several decades of backwards compatibility is unrelated? ;-)

  It's not like Windows is any better in that regard.

  At least Apple dares to break backwards compatibility with ancient
software and architectures. It hasn't slowed them down much.

> I do take your point - broken software exists on *all* platforms. 
> However, I do feel that Unix really doesn't help matters by being so 
> wildly complicated...

  Unix was never designed for people who don't know nor want to know
anything about computers. It was designed for sysadmins and the like.

-- 
                                                          - Warp

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