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Must ... Not ... Have ... ChoiceMust ... Not ... Have ... ChoicePosted May 10, 2012 7:10 UTC (Thu) by ssmith32 (subscriber, #72404)In reply to: Must ... Not ... Have ... Choice by drag Parent article: Fragmentation on the Linux Desktop (Is it Normal?) (Datamation)
> Meanwhile if I was using Windows XP I could of had everything installed and running correctly with about 15 minutes of effort.
That's not Linux, that's Ogre3D: they have packaged their library for windows, but not for Linux.
Which it not surprising, given the Ogre3D community has a strong windows preference. Which again is not surprising, given the gaming community has one as well.
And, yes, I have used Ogre3D on Linux - it wasn't so bad, but it does come with a strong windows community around it, and not a Linux one.
I've actually had the opposite problem: I just wanted to play a song at a certain time in the morning: since the tools needed (mpg123 and crontab) are trivially available on linux, it took only a few minutes there. On windows it took HOURS of searching around (no I'm not downloading random spyware junk from download.com) on the microsoft site, downloading a WGA application, having it break, fixing it, finding an alarm clock program, fixing it...
So it's not really a "linux" problem: just a problem with the software you want to use. It could go either way.
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[OT] windows task scheduler Posted May 10, 2012 9:51 UTC (Thu) by cortana (subscriber, #24596) [Link]
Out of interest, what was wrong with using the Windows Task Scheduler to open the MP3 file at the desired time?
[OT] windows task scheduler Posted May 10, 2012 19:46 UTC (Thu) by JanC_ (guest, #34940) [Link]
I suppose what is "easy" largely depends on what you are used to... ;)
But even better: Windows includes an "at" commandline tool to schedule this (if one prefers that over a GUI).
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