Lin545: Hmm, I thought we were discussing multiple smaller topics. If I would use single response, then I would very probably derail your initial post, by ignoring or overlooking some arguments and building up a pile on my own... This is why I went to partial quotes...
The topic of the thread being the Galaxy installer fails to run on Windows 10 ;-) This is turning into a bit of bickering of Windows vs Linux
Lin545: Thats really strange, because it should activate using BIOS/UEFI key - possibly require telephone call. Can you please give me some search keywords, because I am curious as to - why the installation would fail.
I'd love to, but sadly it's been a while since I tried helping someone whose drive died on them and who got a new drive. I believe the message went that Windows could not activate on the current hardware. Contact your OEM to get an appropriate image for your notebook.
Lin545: Software sources and package managers ahoy That's a really nice rundown of the various systems for software distribution/deployment/installation. Thank you :-) I honestly thought there were more things in the running out there with each their own ways of doing things, so having a .rpm or .deb package would likely still need to have been packaged for your specific distro.
Lin545: That is a situation that is typical to a binary approach.
You can include Windows there. They ship an update, great amount of software stops working. Would you attempt to re-compile that software yourself in VS with a newer library?.. Or would you just draw their attention, so that they "fix their stuff" and wait until that?
By "fiddling around terminal" you are actually doing that. "Fiddling around" Visual Studio to re-compile the project for newer library that is force-shipped would be much more time-consuming.
In both cases, this is actually not what you should do. Unless you explicitly want it right here and right now.
What I meant was, installing LibreOffice 5 on windows = go to libreoffice.org, download installer, run
Installing LibreOffice 5 on something like Mint can work the same way (go to LibreOffice.org, download .deb or .rpm, install), but the seemed preferred method using the Software Center would require you to go poke in a new PPA url before you can even see it there. 'course if you do you have the advantage of an automatic update
Lin545: Well, that sounds like an interesting bug. Probably the PPA had different libary version and installed it, causing segmentation fault in Unity. Thats worthy of report, if PPA is maintained. Otherwise, ask on official Ubuntu IRC channels. I have not used Ubuntu (full-time, that is) since 2011 so I am not sure KDE is in official repository. If it is, is always better to stick to that, unless something is really wrong with that. Well, basically, what I said few paragraphs above about binary distros.
I likely should've reported it as an issue with the Ubuntu PPA, but instead I just ended up wiping the drive and installing Kubuntu.
And still...I'm starting to think we might be hijacking this thread a teensy bit. I'd be happy to keep talking back and forth over chat for instance, or if a mod could split this out into a separate thread, but while tangentally relevant to the thread topic it feels like we've scared everyone else away.
