[clark-kent]

Unix is very easy if you take time to learn it. Most things behave the same way.

[knieveltech → clark-kent]

Demonstrably untrue based on two and a half decades of experience. At least chasing lib dependencies for 18 hours during the config/make/make install process is mostly a thing of the past.

[ez77 → knieveltech]

Do you have any broad advice on easing the config/make/make install process?

[thmcmahon → ez77]

apt-get install

[sagarun → thmcmahon]

or yum install, Where yum automatically resolves the dependencies for you. No more make && make install

[metabrew → sagarun]

Nothing to do.

[sbierwagen → clark-kent]

  Most things behave the same way.

Ha ha. You jest.

  bbot@bbot:~/foo$ ls
  bar
  bbot@bbot:~/foo$ ls bar
  text.txt
  bbot@bbot:~/foo$ mv bar baz
  bbot@bbot:~/foo$ ls
  baz
  bbot@bbot:~/foo$ cp baz bar
  cp: omitting directory `baz'
  bbot@bbot:~/foo$ ls
  baz

There are hundreds of things like this. dd's hilarious syntax. The spotty usage of --help. Inconsistent behavior when you invoke a command with no arguments. The dazzling array of contradictory option flags for ls. Everything about vi. Etc etc etc.

[silentbicycle → sbierwagen]

He said "Unix", not "Linux".

[regularfry → silentbicycle]

I'm confused. Which of these don't apply?

[Leon → clark-kent]

You just proved the authors point.