Why Linux Sucks

It innocently started, as most experiences in Dependency Hell do - I stumbled upon a piece of software (PacketFence), and thought to myself how great it would be to have that running on my network.

Four hours and five distros later, it's still not running.

Dependency Hell is what 'Microsofties' will always be able to point to when *nix aficionados laud the superiority of their OS. In the interests of full disclosure, I will say that I am an MSDN developer and trend that direction, but I've also spent a couple of years as a Solaris admin and a couple years as an admin for a hosting company exclusively running RHEL, so I'm no stranger to the nix world - however, when it comes to doing anything more simple than running out-of-the-box configs, nix quickly turns to a clusterfuck of developers who make fragile software with dependencies that don't come standard on the recommended distro, and when you have problems, said developers shrug their shoulders.

In the Windows world, I download an installer and it works. In the Linux world, I download an installer and it proceeds to tell me why it won't work, and then in attempting to resolve the initial dependencies, several more pop up for some shitty little binary, and before you know it, your weekend is gone. Linux developers, IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to check dependencies ALL THE WAY THROUGH and ensure that your software will work when I run it. Just fucking do it, you tards. The rest of the civilized world is tired of going on an internet egg hunt for days/weeks at a time to try to make our environments match yours as closely as possible, so your stupid app will run correctly, and that's why you'll never be able to fully sell your OS to any business or individual who values being able to run software easily and hassle-free. Stop it with this incessant "Oh, yeah, if you happen to have some weird distro, like a standard Fedora Core install straight off the CD, you're going to need to visit these fifteen websites and figure out how to add their software to yum. I could've had my app do it for you, but I've been too busy trying to find an extremely rare version of GTK so I can install this IRC client so I can start explaining to Windows guys why Linux is superior."

If it weren't for Apache, I think most of the world wouldn't even be using Linux. The only reason it's "more secure" is because it's less of a target, but when it really comes down to it, many Linux programs are plenty vulnerable.