POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : FOSS annoyances : Re: FOSS annoyances Server Time
4 Sep 2024 21:19:33 EDT (-0400)
  Re: FOSS annoyances  
From: Invisible
Date: 4 Jan 2010 06:39:20
Message: <4b41d368@news.povray.org>
>> Heh, well, the *really* fun thing is when you have to install GTK+
>> before the program will run... We all know what happens then. ;-)
> 
> In Linux you have to install GTK+ before the program will run too. The 
> difference is that Linux distros have package managers that make it sane.

More correctly: The difference is that on Linux, *lots* of programs use 
GTK+, not just the GIMP. ;-)

Actually, one of the more perplexing things about Linux is how different 
widget toolkits look and behave completely differently. Things seem to 
have got more sane over there recently, thank God...


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