Genymotion Android emulator

[Warren Samples]

On 07/20/2013 04:55 PM, Richmond wrote:
> "Richmond's experience" has been greatly exaggerated by Thee!


Thee or thou? Your post makes it sound like a universal Linux problem, 
using the term "inevitably". I don't know what to say about the 
instructions being wrong "(but that is normal for Linux)". I didn't read 
them. I just downloaded the installer and clicked away and "magically" 
everything worked, despite it being Linux.

One of the things that I find a little disappointing is the propensity 
for people to say on this list that there's a "linux" problem when they 
should say "I have a problem on my system". One of the reasons I tend to 
look into and respond to posts to this list about problems Linux users 
have is to help clarify when the issue is indeed a "linux" issue and 
when the issue might be local. Clarifying this can only help get at the 
root of a problem and hence a solution.

Further, I'm not interested in wasting time in the silly pursuit of 
convincing people to run Linux as their main OS, but we should be 
careful about not encouraging the exaggerated fear that Linux is just 
too much trouble to think about at all. This is a cross-platform 
developing environment and I think LiveCoders should be encouraged to 
keep it in mind as a viable platform for app deployment, and an 
"inevitably" hostile beast after all, to install for testing during 
development.

Warren