On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 08:22:44PM -0400, Ken Schneider wrote: : Damon Jebb wrote: : > : > I'm not commenting to raise a stink in the linux community - I don't : > care much if it does though. I am trying to put a more measured : > perspective on the argument, from an experienced user of both operating : > systems. As I said on another thread, as far as I'm concerned Linux is : > great for servers, not for the desktop. : : Just as I suspected, a M$ troll. Please stick to the issues and avoid character attacks. : If you had the experience that you claim you would have been able to : work through the problems. M$ is M$, LINUX is LINUX. No different than : comparing win98 to XP. Things are in differnet places. No, there is a difference between the same features in different places in different OSes, and different features in different or non-existent places in different OSes. Also, there are issues regarding ease-of-use. Most Linux advocates often do not consider that to be so important, and instead relegate it to the giant trash can with the labels "Beginner", "Moron", "RTFM", or "Get A Mac". In this and other areas, I think some in the Linux community are trying to force their notion of "desktop user" onto the existing consumer base of desktop users, with their own notions of what they need, who are still mostly Windoze or Mac. : Microsofts main problem is in -not- educating people on how to : actually use and trouble shoot problems. Their answer is re-install. 1) One of M$'s problems is that their OS is so buggy that it requires extensive troubleshooting skills to fix many classes of problems. 2) Many consumers spend as much time fixing Windoze as they do using Windoze to do their daily tasks, but they'd rather not waste the time. 3) A clean re-install of Windoze seems to solve lots of problems. 4) A clean install of SuSE 9.1 seems to solve lots of problems discussed on this very list regarding 9.1 upgrades from 9.0 systems.