Ha! I knew it wasn't just Windows

[andrewducker]

Updating Skype on the Eee so that it can do webcam calls to Julie (in Germany). And it demanded a reboot.

I thought Linux didn't do that kind of thing :->

Comments

[autopope.livejournal.com]

Linux doesn't. It's the feculent pile of crap that is Skype, not being written by anyone who understands how to load and unload a kernel module cleanly on the fly.

(You get this shit on OS/X, too: it's most annoying, but most such badly-written installers succumb to a brisk kill -9.)

[johncoxon.livejournal.com]

I was about to post something to similar effect, but using less cool words.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

All Apple software sucks. It always has, and their current design goals apparently include "it always will".

See also: fucking malware bundles.

[johanna-alice.livejournal.com]

That's a bit strong (Writing on a MacBook). Making their OS upon a UNIX kernel can only be considered a good move and compared to Windoze its a positive pleasure to use.

That said iTunes on a PC sucks.

Perhaps all Apple software not on an Apple platform...

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

Funny, you never got webcam calls working with me either..

[andrewducker]

I got it working in the end. Technology seems to have moved on!

[dreema.livejournal.com]

yeah, i got webcam calls on the eeepc working with the beta version of skype. Scared the bejesus out of my sister too :)

[robhu.livejournal.com]

Really badly written software can do anything. It's just that most of the badly written software is written on / is Microsoft Windows :P

[andrewducker]

Yeah, but I remember the constant refrain of Linux-heads on /. "Windows makes you reboot when you update software. Linux doesn't."

[robhu.livejournal.com]

In the last 8 years of using Linux I've never been asked to reboot, I have been asked a lot on Windows and occasionally on OS X. I'm quite amazed that you were asked at all tbh.

[andrewducker]

So was I! Hence the post!

[cybik.livejournal.com]

Huh, I was asked to reboot for something a while ago. Can't remember for the life of me what it was for, but it did make me go "wha'? Reboot? Whassat?" ;)

[autopope.livejournal.com]

The Xandros distro that ships on the Eee is a pile of crap. And what Asus have done to it to fit it on the Eee is little short of an abomination. Their software updater insists on rebooting every time you update something/move the mouse. My advice: nuke Xandros and install eeeXubuntu (preferably with the kernel patch to make USB mounted block devices persist across ACPI sleep). Now that's a working linux distro for the Eee ...

[andrewducker]

Don't do this to me! I've got it working! It does what I want - don't incite thoughts of installing another OS on it!

[johnbobshaun.livejournal.com]

Most I've ever had to do is restart an X Windows session when installing graphics drivers and the like.