Re:Thank you, Ubuntu
by IgorPartola on Saturday October 02, 2010 @02:37PM
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Certainly looks promising. For some reason it reminds me of Portable Apps.
As for Dropbox, yes, I recently went through installing it. Terrible experience on Ubuntu. I think the reason is mostly that it is using a proprietary daemon. A FUSE driver seems like a much better idea, and if they released it under an open license, it would be as easy as apt-get install dropbox.
I've had nothing but a completely smooth experience with Dropbox on Ubuntu. YMMV?
Re:Thank you, Ubuntu
by IgorPartola on Monday October 04, 2010 @08:52AM
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I tried to set up Dropbox without any sort of a GUI. I know that their .deb package is partially an extension to Nautilus, and since I run Xubuntu I don't have that installed. Instead I followed the poorly written instructions at http://wiki.dropbox.com/TipsAndTricks/TextBasedLinuxInstall which resulted in a .py file being invoked via ~/.profile which still creates a GUI window to ask you for your information, etc. Why not have a standard daemon with a ready-made init.d script rather than this madness?
I use ninite all the time (it's brilliant!), but only ever for initial installation. Does it handle updating apps?
Things are better on Linux, but not all rosy. Installing Dropbox, for example, is a surprisingly crappy experience (windows popping up, separate proprietary daemon download, etc). That, and way more user requests than you'd imagine, is why we have http://ninite.com/linux now too.