🚀 go-pugleaf

PerfectReign wrote:
> Bluuuue Rajah turned on the Etch-A-Sketch and wrote:
> 
>> Everybody rightly criticizes Micro$tiff for selling a crappy OS, and
>> Linux is obviuosly better, if you have the time and the expertise to use
>> in it, but until this week I didn't understand exaclty why Windows is
>> such a POS.
>>
>> When I had to uninstall the Google toolbar because Google installed an
>> update tht I didn't ask for, which overrode IE5's ctrl-f command, the
>> reason beame clear.  Windows' install/uninstall method causes bugs to
>> accumulate, if programs are not ununstalled in precise the reverse order
>> of which they were installed.
>>
>> The problem is that terrible method of saving old copies of system
>> files, like .ini files, as backups, to be restored when software is
>> uninstalled.  So the more apps you uninstall, out of order, the buggier
>> your system becomes, until you finally have to reinstall the OS.
>>
>> Linux apparently doesn't have anything resembling this problem, which
>> makes me wonder, how did the Linux designers (Torvald?) handle this
>> problem, and can we learn anything from their solution to help minimize
>> the problem with Windows?
> 
> Well, that's not entirely true.
> 
> Wintendo computers have an issue with uninstalling because of a few reasons.
> 
> Mostly, the people who write the applications install things in places they
> shouldn't be installing - such as application libraries in places
> like %system root%/Windows/Win32.
> 
> Also, when they hack thorugh the Wise or Installshield installer they forget
> things. So the uninstaller doesn't know exactly what is going on.
> 
> If app designers would follow the - now ten-year-old - microsoft
> recommendations of installing everything to /program files/app_vendor/app
> directories and never using HKLM, then there would not be an issue.
> 
> Oh, and I can tell you right now about such a fucked up situation in Linux.
> Here's my log of me trying to upgrade VirtualBox from 2.0.6 to 2.1.
> Apparently, the RPM manager fucked up and doesn't even know what version I
> have nor what dependencies I need.
> 
> Like I say - Linux - it sucks slightly less than the competition.
> 
> xwing:/home/kai/downloads #
> rpm -U ./VirtualBox-2.1.0_41146_openSUSE103-1.i586.rpm
>         file /etc/init.d/vboxdrv from install of
> VirtualBox-2.1.0_41146_openSUSE103-1 conflicts with file from package
> virtualbox-1.5.2-10.2
>         file /usr/bin/VBoxManage from install of
> VirtualBox-2.1.0_41146_openSUSE103-1 conflicts with file from package
> virtualbox-1.5.2-10.2
>         file /usr/bin/VBoxSDL from install of
> VirtualBox-2.1.0_41146_openSUSE103-1 conflicts with file from package
> virtualbox-1.5.2-10.2
>         file /usr/bin/VirtualBox from install of
> VirtualBox-2.1.0_41146_openSUSE103-1 conflicts with file from package
> virtualbox-1.5.2-10.2
>         file /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxDD.so from install of
> VirtualBox-2.1.0_41146_openSUSE103-1 conflicts with file from package
> virtualbox-1.5.2-10.2
>         file /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxDD2.so from install of
> VirtualBox-2.1.0_41146_openSUSE103-1 conflicts with file from package
> virtualbox-1.5.2-10.2
>         file /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxDD2GC.gc from install of
> VirtualBox-2.1.0_41146_openSUSE103-1 conflicts with file from package
> virtualbox-1.5.2-10.2
>         file /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxDD2R0.r0 from install of
> VirtualBox-2.1.0_41146_openSUSE103-1 conflicts with file from package
> virtualbox-1.5.2-10.2
>         file /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxDDGC.gc from install of
> VirtualBox-2.1.0_41146_openSUSE103-1 conflicts with file from package
> virtualbox-1.5.2-10.2
>         file /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxDDR0.r0 from install of
> VirtualBox-2.1.0_41146_openSUSE103-1 conflicts with file from package
> virtualbox-1.5.2-10.2
>         file /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxDDU.so from install of
> VirtualBox-2.1.0_41146_openSUSE103-1 conflicts with file from package
> virtualbox-1.5.2-10.2
>         file /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxKeyboard.so from install of
> VirtualBox-2.1.0_41146_openSUSE103-1 conflicts with file from package
> virtualbox-1.5.2-10.2
>         file /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxManage from install of
> VirtualBox-2.1.0_41146_openSUSE103-1 conflicts with file from package
> virtualbox-1.5.2-10.2
>         file /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxREM.so from install of
> VirtualBox-2.1.0_41146_openSUSE103-1 conflicts with file from package
> virtualbox-1.5.2-10.2
>         file /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxRT.so from install of
> VirtualBox-2.1.0_41146_openSUSE103-1 conflicts with file from package
> virtualbox-1.5.2-10.2
>         file /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxSDL from install of
> VirtualBox-2.1.0_41146_openSUSE103-1 conflicts with file from package
> virtualbox-1.5.2-10.2
>         file /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxSVC from install of
> VirtualBox-2.1.0_41146_openSUSE103-1 conflicts with file from package
> virtualbox-1.5.2-10.2
>         file /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxSharedClipboard.so from install of
> VirtualBox-2.1.0_41146_openSUSE103-1 conflicts with file from package
> virtualbox-1.5.2-10.2
>         file /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxSharedFolders.so from install of
> VirtualBox-2.1.0_41146_openSUSE103-1 conflicts with file from package
> virtualbox-1.5.2-10.2
>         file /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxVMM.so from install of
> VirtualBox-2.1.0_41146_openSUSE103-1 conflicts with file from package
> virtualbox-1.5.2-10.2
>         file /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxXPCOM.so from install of
> VirtualBox-2.1.0_41146_openSUSE103-1 conflicts with file from package
> virtualbox-1.5.2-10.2
>         file /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxXPCOMIPCD from install of
> VirtualBox-2.1.0_41146_openSUSE103-1 conflicts with file from package
> virtualbox-1.5.2-10.2
>         file /usr/lib/virtualbox/VMMGC.gc from install of
> VirtualBox-2.1.0_41146_openSUSE103-1 conflicts with file from package
> virtualbox-1.5.2-10.2
>         file /usr/lib/virtualbox/VMMR0.r0 from install of
> VirtualBox-2.1.0_41146_openSUSE103-1 conflicts with file from package
> virtualbox-1.5.2-10.2
>         file /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox from install of
> VirtualBox-2.1.0_41146_openSUSE103-1 conflicts with file from package
> virtualbox-1.5.2-10.2
>         file /usr/lib/virtualbox/components/VBoxC.so from install of
> VirtualBox-2.1.0_41146_openSUSE103-1 conflicts with file from package
> virtualbox-1.5.2-10.2
>         file /usr/lib/virtualbox/components/VBoxSVCM.so from install of
> VirtualBox-2.1.0_41146_openSUSE103-1 conflicts with file from package
> virtualbox-1.5.2-10.2
>         file /usr/lib/virtualbox/components/VBoxXPCOMBase.xpt from install
> of VirtualBox-2.1.0_41146_openSUSE103-1 conflicts with file from package
> virtualbox-1.5.2-10.2
>         file /usr/lib/virtualbox/components/VBoxXPCOMIPCC.so from install of
> VirtualBox-2.1.0_41146_openSUSE103-1 conflicts with file from package
> virtualbox-1.5.2-10.2
>         file /usr/lib/virtualbox/components/VirtualBox_XPCOM.xpt from
> install of VirtualBox-2.1.0_41146_openSUSE103-1 conflicts with file from
> package virtualbox-1.5.2-10.2
> xwing:/home/kai/downloads #        
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I've never had such a problem with either of my Macs :-)