Comments on: Microsoft screencast shows Linux easier than Windows

By: Seth

Seth — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:22:08 +0000

Ubuntu Yucking Yeisty Yawn

Splendid!

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:32:31 +0000

True. I just wrote down what he did in his screencasts. For example, one could use the a graphical package management tool such as synaptic to install the apache module, then use a GUI file manager to copy the file. It was interesting to see in his screencasts that he did use the command line on Windows..

-c

By: Sam Watkins

Sam Watkins — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 11:22:12 +0000

I don’t think a click is equivalent to typing a line of text. Most people would find it easier to click something, even compared to copy-pasting the text. I do think that it’s easier for a sysadmin who is familiar with both systems to install and configure things on Debian than on Windows. The process of fetching the programs is much simpler on Debian, and the mostly non-interactive install / config is a benefit.

People would notice this benefit when setting up 20 machines with 50 applications, this needs only a single command (per machine) on Debian (or a short shell script to ssh into each in parallel and do the installation), whereas on Windows all that clicking to accept licenses is really going to get you down when you’re doing it 20*50 = 1000 times.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 05:42:43 +0000

Maybe so, but in Linux it’s two steps:
Install the Apache mod
Copy the file

I can’t imagine how it’s ever going to be easier in Windows

By: Chris Knight

Chris Knight — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 04:50:24 +0000

It’s easier to install PHP on Win2008/Win7 by using the Web Platform Installer. Reduces it to one download and a handful of clicks.

Be nice if they included Perl/Python into it though.

But I still prefer using FreeBSD, Apache, et al as the configuration is stored in text files which I can easily version, copy, and automate deployment for.