Re: Ubuntu (Linux); my first experience of...

Paul Burke wrote:
- library anarchy. There used to be a syndrome called "DLL hell" in Windows, but I've installed many programs over the last 5 years without a problem.
But with Linux, not only is the library base protean, but each version of any given library seems to be subtly incompatible with all others, both forwards and backwards.

11 years since I installed Debian (same package management as Ubuntu),
and although I've upgraded the hardware three times, I've never done
a clean re-install and I've *never* had the problem you describe, though
a couple of the major upgrades were a bit more difficult than others. It
doesn't do to leave the system without running a dist-upgrade for more
than a few months. So AFAICS this comment is basically sh1t with regard
to Ubuntu, which is *better* than Debian. Other distros have probs tho'.
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