A rant about software that he won't use. Clearly he has done some testing to see how things are, but why would he use something he's convinced is crap?
It depends on whether you object to the concept on principle or to the negative impact on your computer. In the latter case, his actions make total sense.
Maybe he wants to learn, or maybe he's a psychopath trying to upgrade his human emulation software so he can get out sooner. Even experts find it hard to tell.
I don't care how fast a computer is if I have to reinstall it from scratch every few months.
Sure, all my working files are safely on Dropbox (documents) or GitHub (code), but that doesn't help when I have to reinstall my operating system and software every three months!
No, he's arguing that asking somebody else to spend an hour of their time to install a gem is placing extra barriers to people experimenting with the software that came with their computer.
Whenever he has a problem that can't be solved by a GUI, he just blogs really, really hard at it until the computer gives up and does whatever he wants out of sheer embarrassment.
Why was he installing Handbrake on a work computer? Maybe he had a business need to transcode videos, in which case no problem, but was he installing Handbrake on a work computer in order to rip DVDs personally? Worse, was he perhaps doing work on a personal computer?
Folks, don't mix your business & professional lives. The cost is not worth the benefit!
The failure of Linux as a commercial desktop is also (not entirely, of course) his responsibility, considering the crap he pulled with all the desktop components he messed with (PulseAudio, HAL, DBUS etc etc), so clearly it's not a causal factor for his behaviour.
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