[oclug]Re: Linux too hard?

[Michael P. Soulier]

On 25/11/02 tim at trhosking.com did speaketh:

> I hear all this BS about mounting digital cameras as mass storage devices, 
> not forgetting to install SCSI drivers first, and throw my hands up in 
> despair. What the hell is wrong with GPhoto for God's sake? Why the hell 
> can't it just see the damned camera without me having to rebuild the darned 
> kernel and load a bunch of obscure modules? The whole CD burning thing is 
> also a shambles. Linux always has been and probably always will be the best 
> server OS around. I could go on and on (I already have). The trouble is 
> that the GUI seems to been bolted on as an afterthought, at a time when 
> users did not know anything better. If you had Linux, you were not afraid 
> of editing config files to get stuff working. Times have changed and users 
> are entitled to expect a little more. 

    There's nothing wrong with ghoto2, beyond lacking a real installer. When I
installed my burner software on windows, it did all the work of configuring
the system, because windows users would accept nothing else. Their crappy
software couldn't burn isos, but if you wanted to copy CDs, make audio CDs or
data CDs, it was fine. On Linux, the gphoto2 developers don't consider it
their responsibility to set up USB mass storage and hotplug for you, and maybe
that's the problem. Still, I don't want my packages reconfiguring my entire
system either. 
    Where do we draw the line? Helpful installers on windows have screwed up
my system royally before. That's not an issue on Linux because typically the
packagers don't make the packages really do shit all for you. On Debian they
seem to do more typically, but they're hardly user-friendly.

    Mike

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