Linux woes
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I just installed DropBox on Linux using the Ubuntu Software Center. It shows as installed. No "Launch" button so, OK, I go click the "Start" button and search for DropBox. No results. This "Start" does not show all programs so the only way to get to something is to search or to have it pinned to the side. Luckily the setup was not actually done and sitting behind a window. Not sure how I'll get to the DropBox app in the future. Pretty sad when you install software and cannot even find it to launch it. :doh:
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
I'm convinced - Linux employs a technique similar to the one Australia has used with its wildlife for years. Packages often have deliberately brief installation instructions, we talk-up how nasty our critters are. It tends to raise the bar for entry to a degree that suits all current inhabitants. You've got google now, whatcha whining for? You shouldv'e tried with all that kind of stuff back when the best search engine was AltaVista.. and IE4 ruled the roost. :laugh:
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I just installed DropBox on Linux using the Ubuntu Software Center. It shows as installed. No "Launch" button so, OK, I go click the "Start" button and search for DropBox. No results. This "Start" does not show all programs so the only way to get to something is to search or to have it pinned to the side. Luckily the setup was not actually done and sitting behind a window. Not sure how I'll get to the DropBox app in the future. Pretty sad when you install software and cannot even find it to launch it. :doh:
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I just installed DropBox on Linux using the Ubuntu Software Center. It shows as installed. No "Launch" button so, OK, I go click the "Start" button and search for DropBox. No results. This "Start" does not show all programs so the only way to get to something is to search or to have it pinned to the side. Luckily the setup was not actually done and sitting behind a window. Not sure how I'll get to the DropBox app in the future. Pretty sad when you install software and cannot even find it to launch it. :doh:
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
RyanDev wrote:
Pretty sad when you install software and cannot even find it to launch it.
That was the exact final straw that made me drop my last (of many) excursion into ubuntu. They call it progress. I call it "hiding stuff". Why is it hard for OS designers to understand that we just want to use our programs and files? Media libraries? Groups? Fancy-schmanzy containers that suck in every picture on the machine (including all the icons, snapshots, borders, and other cr@p used by programs)? No thanks. Just give me a list of the programs installed, so that I can open them when I need them, and let me see my disc, so that I can put files there and retrieve them from there. You don't make things simpler by obfuscating simplicity.
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You can try installing it using the terminal, Dropbox is available in the official repo :D i dont trust the software center, sometimes they don't do what was advertise.
Could you repeat that in English, please? Google translate couldn't handle it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I just installed DropBox on Linux using the Ubuntu Software Center. It shows as installed. No "Launch" button so, OK, I go click the "Start" button and search for DropBox. No results. This "Start" does not show all programs so the only way to get to something is to search or to have it pinned to the side. Luckily the setup was not actually done and sitting behind a window. Not sure how I'll get to the DropBox app in the future. Pretty sad when you install software and cannot even find it to launch it. :doh:
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I'm convinced - Linux employs a technique similar to the one Australia has used with its wildlife for years. Packages often have deliberately brief installation instructions, we talk-up how nasty our critters are. It tends to raise the bar for entry to a degree that suits all current inhabitants. You've got google now, whatcha whining for? You shouldv'e tried with all that kind of stuff back when the best search engine was AltaVista.. and IE4 ruled the roost. :laugh:
Are you suggesting that Linux is the Drop Bear of operating systems? Because I thought that title went to Vista. :laugh:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Are you suggesting that Linux is the Drop Bear of operating systems? Because I thought that title went to Vista. :laugh:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
OriginalGriff wrote:
Because I thought that title went to Vista. :laugh:
Are you sure? If Win7 would not exist, I would believe that Mickeysoft has specialized on DropSomethings.
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RyanDev wrote:
Pretty sad when you install software and cannot even find it to launch it.
That was the exact final straw that made me drop my last (of many) excursion into ubuntu. They call it progress. I call it "hiding stuff". Why is it hard for OS designers to understand that we just want to use our programs and files? Media libraries? Groups? Fancy-schmanzy containers that suck in every picture on the machine (including all the icons, snapshots, borders, and other cr@p used by programs)? No thanks. Just give me a list of the programs installed, so that I can open them when I need them, and let me see my disc, so that I can put files there and retrieve them from there. You don't make things simpler by obfuscating simplicity.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
Did you argue with it a lot then? :-D
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You can try installing it using the terminal, Dropbox is available in the official repo :D i dont trust the software center, sometimes they don't do what was advertise.
Agree - I dont trust the Ubuntu software centre either. It uses very old versions of software and isnt very reliable as the OP says in completing the installation. Definitely avoid if you can. ;P Fortunately the command line is quite helpful in most instances and will tell you how to install software, with the added benefit it is a much faster process.
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I just installed DropBox on Linux using the Ubuntu Software Center. It shows as installed. No "Launch" button so, OK, I go click the "Start" button and search for DropBox. No results. This "Start" does not show all programs so the only way to get to something is to search or to have it pinned to the side. Luckily the setup was not actually done and sitting behind a window. Not sure how I'll get to the DropBox app in the future. Pretty sad when you install software and cannot even find it to launch it. :doh:
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
I like Fedora quite a bit, and find that it works quite well, especially with the LXDE desktop (very lightweight). Ubuntu... Not a chance. That crap is worse than Vista, IMO.
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I just installed DropBox on Linux using the Ubuntu Software Center. It shows as installed. No "Launch" button so, OK, I go click the "Start" button and search for DropBox. No results. This "Start" does not show all programs so the only way to get to something is to search or to have it pinned to the side. Luckily the setup was not actually done and sitting behind a window. Not sure how I'll get to the DropBox app in the future. Pretty sad when you install software and cannot even find it to launch it. :doh:
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
RyanDev wrote:
Pretty sad when you install software and cannot even find it to launch it.
Yup. Fairly common state of affairs as far as I've seen. Install an app, where's the icon? Oh, there's an .sh file I have to use to launch it buried somewhere in the installation directory. Oh, but it's not executable. Need to tell Ubuntu to treat it as an executable. Now how to put a shortcut on the desktop. Oh, that is another 30 minutes wasted googling SO answers until the right set of non-intuitive steps is described. X| Marc
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I'm convinced - Linux employs a technique similar to the one Australia has used with its wildlife for years. Packages often have deliberately brief installation instructions, we talk-up how nasty our critters are. It tends to raise the bar for entry to a degree that suits all current inhabitants. You've got google now, whatcha whining for? You shouldv'e tried with all that kind of stuff back when the best search engine was AltaVista.. and IE4 ruled the roost. :laugh:
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You can try installing it using the terminal, Dropbox is available in the official repo :D i dont trust the software center, sometimes they don't do what was advertise.
Zterh wrote:
i dont trust the software center
It was a .deb download from dropbox.com. I chose to open in Software Center because double-clicking did nothing. At least in Windows, when you double-click an installer, it installs. :^)
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Did you argue with it a lot then? :-D
I'm not you.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I'm convinced - Linux employs a technique similar to the one Australia has used with its wildlife for years. Packages often have deliberately brief installation instructions, we talk-up how nasty our critters are. It tends to raise the bar for entry to a degree that suits all current inhabitants. You've got google now, whatcha whining for? You shouldv'e tried with all that kind of stuff back when the best search engine was AltaVista.. and IE4 ruled the roost. :laugh:
AltaVista has been replaced? Where have I been?
