09-29-2017, 06:17 PM
Hi,
As a long standing user of windoze, which I have long wanted to ditch in favour of Linux, unfortunately, I have ALWAYS encountered the same problem with ALL distros I've tried over 10 years or more: using software not included in the 'package', which although correctly installed is not available & doesn't appear when searching for it; as an example I installed 'zoneminder' today using the package manager, it's listed as installed yet does not appear under any of the categories in the menu, nor when I search for it, so how can I possibly use it! Needless to say this would NOT be a problem with windoze, as unlike every distro tried to date, I would have the choice to CHOOSE where a program is installed & where the shortcut for it appears to launch it; it beggars belief that after all these years, NOBODY creating a Linux distro (or a software for Linux) seems to have grasped the very simple concept that people install software to use them, not to have them sitting somewhere in the OS unusable for lack of knowing how to launch them...
As a long standing user of windoze, which I have long wanted to ditch in favour of Linux, unfortunately, I have ALWAYS encountered the same problem with ALL distros I've tried over 10 years or more: using software not included in the 'package', which although correctly installed is not available & doesn't appear when searching for it; as an example I installed 'zoneminder' today using the package manager, it's listed as installed yet does not appear under any of the categories in the menu, nor when I search for it, so how can I possibly use it! Needless to say this would NOT be a problem with windoze, as unlike every distro tried to date, I would have the choice to CHOOSE where a program is installed & where the shortcut for it appears to launch it; it beggars belief that after all these years, NOBODY creating a Linux distro (or a software for Linux) seems to have grasped the very simple concept that people install software to use them, not to have them sitting somewhere in the OS unusable for lack of knowing how to launch them...