Jolla’s Sailfish certified as Russian government’s first ‘Android alternative’

Re:Jolla’s Sailfish certified as Russian government’s first ... by dispose13432 on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @12:28AM (#13068694)

>1. linux portability. yes, most likely you cant just write one app and it works on 'linux'. without additional work it will only work on your specific distro. Probably even just your specific distro with a specific version number. 2. linux installers in general. i get it, we all like just typing in a quick command and installing a whole suite of programs. thats nice. but for general installations, in 99% of the cases it would be helpful to offer some easy gui click-through installer just like we get on windows. 3. easy to break it: no, i dont see it as my personal user error if i install some random nvidia driver from some random ppa and it breaks my boot desktop and i only get a black screen. i dont care how i broke it, that simply should not be possible ever.

1. & 2. We're not in the 90s. Nowadays, I go to chrome or JetBrains and download one of _four_ files: a 32bit deb, a 32bin rpm, a 64bit deb, and a 64 bit rpm, and use a graphics installer.

3. You download an EXE and it breaks your computer? Naah, can't happen on Windows /s .

I think people should be reminded that downloading things from some PPA is _exactly_ like downloading random_cat_video.exe

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Re:Jolla’s Sailfish certified as Russian government’s first ... by pdimitar on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @08:33PM (#13076351)

Since when does "Linux is no worse than Windows with the random_cat_video.exe problem" count as a valid argument?

Linux is constantly touted as superior to Windows and macOS. So it should do better. Either that, or it should stop being advertised as better.

Pick one.

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