Comments on: Windows is an adventure game http://www.itwriting.com/blog/1039-windows-is-an-adventure-game.html Tech writing blog Sun, 12 Feb 2012 05:28:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Gary Sims http://www.itwriting.com/blog/1039-windows-is-an-adventure-game.html/comment-page-1#comment-113460 Gary Sims Mon, 10 Nov 2008 07:09:30 +0000 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/1039-windows-is-an-adventure-game.html#comment-113460 Linux used to be worse, to download and install a package (an RPM) you would download it and then it would tell you that you needed another RPM and you would download that and discover that you needed another RPM... This could go on for 10 or 20 packages... Thankfully now with systems like "apt" it is really easy. So I would suggest that the advertures game rankings are (with 1 being the easiest): 1) OS X 2) Linux 3) Windows Gone are the days when Windows was the easy to use OS!!!! Gary Linux used to be worse, to download and install a package (an RPM) you would download it and then it would tell you that you needed another RPM and you would download that and discover that you needed another RPM… This could go on for 10 or 20 packages… Thankfully now with systems like “apt” it is really easy. So I would suggest that the advertures game rankings are (with 1 being the easiest):

1) OS X
2) Linux
3) Windows

Gone are the days when Windows was the easy to use OS!!!!

Gary

]]> By: Craig http://www.itwriting.com/blog/1039-windows-is-an-adventure-game.html/comment-page-1#comment-113440 Craig Sun, 09 Nov 2008 20:52:55 +0000 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/1039-windows-is-an-adventure-game.html#comment-113440 Funny you should post this as yesterday I was also trying to install SQL Server 2008 Express. This is what I had to do: 1. Create virtual machine with Windows Vista. 2. Install Visual Studio 2008. 3. Download SQL 2008 Express (500mb) 4. Try and install SQL2008 only for it to fail each time while extracting the files. 5. Manually extract the setup archive using WinRar. 6. Run the setup only to be told I need to install .NET 3.5. 7. Download and install .NET 3.5. 8. Run the setup only to be told I need to install Windows Installer 4.5. 9. Download and install WI 4.5. 10. Run the setup only to be told I need to install VS2008 sp1. 11. Download and install VS2008 sp1. 12. Run the setup and it works! I am sure prior versions weren't so hard to install. Funny you should post this as yesterday I was also trying to install SQL Server 2008 Express. This is what I had to do:

1. Create virtual machine with Windows Vista.
2. Install Visual Studio 2008.
3. Download SQL 2008 Express (500mb)
4. Try and install SQL2008 only for it to fail each time while extracting the files.
5. Manually extract the setup archive using WinRar.
6. Run the setup only to be told I need to install .NET 3.5.
7. Download and install .NET 3.5.
8. Run the setup only to be told I need to install Windows Installer 4.5.
9. Download and install WI 4.5.
10. Run the setup only to be told I need to install VS2008 sp1.
11. Download and install VS2008 sp1.
12. Run the setup and it works!

I am sure prior versions weren’t so hard to install.

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