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Originally Posted by jestinjoy
Unlike Windows why there are so much intricacies involved in insatlling a file?
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In Windows, you would need to install 300MB to 400MB of useless crap along with the media player off the installation disc. In allot of cases you end up installing Acrobat reader 4, 5, 6, 7, over time because when you install in Windows from a CD, chances are you'll install everything on the disc even if it means you'll have four versions of the same software because another application installed a different version of Acrobat reader (example).
In Linux, you install a small package called "mplayer", but if you do not have Acrobat reader (example) installed, then that becomes a dependency, if you have Amarok installed, then allot of these little dependency packages will not need to be installed a second, third, fourth time like "Acrobat reader" (example) in Windows.
If you add up the total size of all those packages, they won't add up to what you need to download to install MusicMatch in Windows, and MusicMatch will probably install a small dependency that is already installed in Windows by Winamp or something.
Basically, in Linux, you usually don't have multiple versions of the same package installed, because they don't all come on a 700MB CD, they are separated in little individual packages that are dependencies just like the 300MB of crap you install off a CD in Windows many more times than is required.
Why do so many people complain about the turtle speed their Windows box eventually runs at?.
