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Re:What Happens When You Install the Top Download.com Apps by VLM on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @11:42AM (#8880875)
Also its possible to screw up a system that way, but its easier / lazier to just install the wrapper package that takes care of everything including dependencies.

So on freebsd, pkg install nvidia-driver, or on legacy linux apt-get install nvidia-driver and you're all done.

Someone looking for trouble could do it the hard and dangerous way, but why?

Also commercial software other than possibly games, is dead man walking and is dead on FOSS platforms. Sure, go ahead, pretend its the 80s and try to charge me money for an editor, or a compiler, or pretend its the 90s and try to charge me for a web browser or a database, its just not happening.

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Re:What Happens When You Install the Top Download.com Apps by ansgri on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @04:24PM (#8882701)
... and try to charge me money for an editor ...

OK, make an editor that great as Sublime Text, put a msgbox that I really should pay $60 for multi-PC license, and be done with it.

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Re:What Happens When You Install the Top Download.com Apps by richardwhiuk on Thursday January 15, 2015 @12:57PM (#8894114)
freebsd or "legacy linux" "commercial software ... is dead man walking"

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