Blown away at how annoying software installation is, on windows
By joe
- 1 minutes read - 175 wordsI’ve argued that RPM … well … building RPMs is bothersome, in part because RPM is a moving target. Its hard to actually build a reasonable package that works correctly on all RPM based or accessible distributions. But this is nothing compared to the pain that windows people feel. I never knew how much of a stinking pile of week old bits that windows software installation was … that is … until I needed to install a package, a simple basic storage controller package … on a windows 2008 x64 server. I won’t name the package, or detail much else. Suffice it to say that 48 hours after downloading this package, I cannot get it to load correctly on windows 2008 server x64. I am to the point of deciding to reload windows. How wrong is this? How completely pear shaped is this going? I think I understand why large companies need many more windows administrators than they do Linux administrators on a per box basis. It makes sense. In an odd sort of way.