Re: [Sheflug] Linux and Windows

[Ben Spencer <bspencer [at] xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 04:32:31PM -0000, George Rammos wrote:
> Downloaded Mozilla 1.0 Final (too new to be on the DVD or SuSE's FTP Server)
> a few minutes ago, decompressed it, but I had to log out and log in again to
> run the installer (su did not do it) and then try to find my way around on
> how to add a shortcut to the Applications Menu. To you it probably is 2 min.
> To me it was more like 20 mins.

I guess we just have different perspectives.  For one thing, my system
doesn't have a start menu or anything resembling it.  Anyway, out of
interest I downloaded Firefox 1.0 (which I assume is what you're
referring to), and had a go.  I didn't bother su-ing, just installed
it as myself in my home directory and it worked fine (I don't know why
the Mozilla team prefer these silly installer programs to the
established package formats, mind you).

The start menu thing is really down to the fact that the people who
wrote the installer know nothing about what distribution or desktop
you're using - and of course this problem can be got round by waiting
for a packaged version to appear for your distro.

I don't use Windows a lot, but on modern versions don't you have to
log in as Administrator to install stuff?

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