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From: DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca>
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Subject: Re: Damning With Faint Praise
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2024 10:55:58 -0500
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On 12/6/2024 10:52 AM, Joel wrote:
> DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> wrote:
> 
>>>> Here's a GuhNoo licensed math package Feeb touted recently.
>>>>
>>>> https://sourceforge.net/projects/mathmod/files/MathMod-12.0/
>>>>
>>>> There's a Windows executable already built.  I downloaded and installed
>>>> it in about 1 minute.
>>>>
>>>> https://imgur.com/a/KP0nRSS
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> There's no Linux executable, so you have to compile it from source.
>>>>
>>>> Go ahead and download the source and do that, and show a screenshot of
>>>> it running on your Linux crapbox.
>>>>
>>>> See you never.
>>>>
>>>> Another Linux FAIL.
>>>
>>> Whatever he did to run it is impressive, I give him,
>>
>> Feeb already had the Qt libraries installed.  You might or might not.
>>
>> Edit: distrowatch shows Mint includes an older version of Qt by default.
>>
>>> but the notion
>>> that you would have to have Windows because of some incredible app is
>>> only true for things you really can't live without, that could exist
>>> in the Unix world too, things you'd give up by using Windows.
>>
>> My point isn't that you have to have Windows.  My point is to see what
>> happens when a cola Linux advocate is forced to compile an app from source.
>>
>> So far you ran away.  Why?
> 
> 
> You can choose Wintendo or you can choose to be selective in what you
> use with Linux.  Trust me, we get by.  Can't wish for M$ back.


Afraid to compile an app?

You promised Linux leetness, man!