usb wrote:
... Would'nt have some difficulties out there, if used to linux whole yr life long, Yu, now, wd be forced to understand the M$ skills at once ?
I read comments out there abt multiple apps for linux, duplicate, triplicate,...
Are You sure there are'nt 5 or 6 browsers which work under M$ Window$ ?
But one is actually enough. In Linux, you have pages where you need to switch to the other browser, or if you just have netscape 6.2 (or 7PR1 or mozilla) you have the crash and freeze issues, apart from mem. usage. Just MS IExplorer seems to be enough for all webpages out there, it seems. I'm not complaining about diversity as such, I'm complaining about having essential features distributed over var. different applications, in Linux made worse because of all these different windowing toolkits with different looks and behaviours. I consider "usability" and "stability" essential functions, that's why just netscape/mozilla (stability) for browsing or gimp (usability) for graphics is not good enough.
As very often repeated, I am not an informatician, and b4 passing over to linux, i resisted myself to leave my direct,simple windows 3.11.
Nevertheless, my linux installation works...... better than my WIndows 2000 partition... which becomes crazy when i add a second HDD to my PC.
Of course, linux manages it without any problem.
I learned to love Macs for Digital Video works. We used to have a G4, which is where I made my first steps with RealVideo encoding and Digital Video (have a Sony TRV 900). The Mac went away, so I made a "video PC" out of one of our PCs - with MS Windows, Adobe Premiere, etc. It's amazing how many things go wrong! And it's not IRQ and other low level issues. Everything on the PC works, all the (video) hardware, and all the software, and they also work together, sort of. But it is amazing how hard it is to get a good looking result, when on the Mac it was just a few clicks away! Okay, I have just introduced yet another sideline from the original subject, I see. Michael