Il 03:46, lunedì 3 settembre 2001, Karol Pietrzak ha scritto:
Vitaly unconciously raises an interesting point: the Linux Experience _can_ be a good one, provided you _do_ have some Linux experience to begin with, which seems like a contradiction.
It is the same as everything. How can you experience driving a good car without having any experience at all?
Vitaly, you make it seem Linux (particularly SuSE 7.2) is perfectly ready a s a newbie replacement for Windows 9x for home users.
That's true, as far as you are not a player or you need some special software.
The truth, however, could not be further. You specify the many things you had to do to have a truly pleasing "experience" ("putting symlinks for plugins in mozilla, enabling Acrobat Reader plugin in KDE, firing up ide-scsi, downloading windows movie codeks for avifile, configuring modules.conf manually to enable my joystick"), something that the average user would spend dozens of hours trying to figure out, if ever succeeding.
That's the same with windows though. I have been helping a friend installing windows. I was not close to him so he phoned me about 65 times in only one day. If you know nothing, everything is hard. And think, windows is preistalled. If linux would be preinstalled, the problems you are talking about would be solved by the vendor. Just like windows ones!
You are the cream-of-the-crop in the Linux world: all your hardware is supported flawlessly, all the software you need is ported as or has Linux equivalents, etc. Once again, you are the elite.
That does not happen by chance. I always buy supported hardware. Of course if I want to play with windows I wont buy a Macintosh, right?
Most users would not even consider Linux after hearing of its disadvantages as a home OS: StarOffice is nowhere near as fast or feature-full as MS Office,
How many users use half of feature of MS Office? Not one I know.
IE is nowhere near as stable and fails to render all pages perfectly, fonts (even anti-aliased) look like crap compared to the latest WIndows / Mac desktop (my win95 installation has better / more fonts than my SuSE 7.2 installation), no standard package format, no standard GUI, no standard video / audio API (a la DirectX), etc.
I like my standard fonts. Maybe am I blind? :-)
You seem to have taken your near-perfect subjective Linux experiences and carried them over to the objective standpoint, declaring in the meantime that SuSE 7.2 can serve as a replacement for virtually any home desktop.
For me, however, the opposite is true. Win95 is my standard OS (I'm writing this in Pegasus Mail), while SuSE 7.2 remains mainly as a hobby apart from the CD-burning I occasionally do here at home. At school, however, SuSE 7.2 is more prevalent. SuSE 7.2 is the router and file server, as well as the Internet terminal.
Hey Karol, you seem to have taken your near-perfect subjective Windows experiences and carried them over to the objective standpoint, declaring that Windows can serve as a replacement for virtually any home desktop. :-) Linux works better than windows. You know, the coloured screen of death and so on.-) It might depend on what software you want to use, nothing else. Tazio