Hi, /me sticks his head into the political debate...
I told you it's false. Installing linux might be too hard. Installing windows just the same. And hey, if you can read, you will never have unsolvable problem with Linux. But you always have unsovable ones with windows. You look like you have 0 experience about Windows.
Agree. I've had to guide a friend through Windows installation as dont forget most of the installation is patching, getting drivers and installing applications, yet he installed SuSE 7.2 on his system with *no* help whatsoever and had it updated to the latest packages. Only the nvidia configuration caused trouble but I pointed out how to think round the problem rather than telling him how. He now plays Tribes 2 perfectly on his Linux box, reads mail etc and is a happy camper. The problems related to windows are due to oversimplification and the expectation of the user to "do just what they want" straight away. Only Macs have this ability - windows machines dont unless they've been prebuilt (properly) which is rare as hell. Windows is too hard to diagnose when it goes wrong too.
There is no point here. If you use a system you have to use the hardware for the system. Full stop. There is no kernel patch for running windows on a Macintosh, right?
Yes there is...Microsoft wont admit that the core of Windows 2k has actually been ported to various architectures but it is used in embedded systems as a Microkernel. So in theory it wouldnt be huge amounts of effort to port it... it's just not commercially viable and would break links with apple. Apple and MS are good friends and know not to go standing on each other, hence no Aqua UI for Darwin/x86 either...
Of course (who the hell ever uses "AutoSummarize"?). But (at least Office 97) it's not as fast, nor as compatible with what the rest of the world uses.
You are saying that Office 97 is not as fast nor compatible with what the rest of the world uses? I knew that.-)
Me too... StarOffice doesnt have that crappy little bastard paper clip either ... grr!
GTK / glib. The fonts do not however look as good as on the Windows desktop, even if you are using the Microsoft hand-tuned fonts.
I use Verdana, Times New Roman, Arial etc in the gimp... what was this person smoking when he posted that? Antialiasing looks the nuts too - not quite as good as ClearType in Windows XP though but very nearly there, and after all how much did it cost you?
It works better, it's cheaper, you have more choice of hardware (you can run it on an old PC). The main reason why a home user do not use linux it's because it's not preinstalled.
...and a lot of people are scared off by lack of mainstream media publicity and crack-whore microsoft PR people stuffing windows down your throat.
The only thing a home user could miss is "games". But Linux is perfectly ready to be used in an standard Office, IMHO.
Bah, I play Tribes 2, UT, Q3a and of course Xpilot on my Linux box. The ONLY thing that I miss is decent audio apps ie eMagic Logic and CoolEdit which is why I have another box specifically for audio. I use linux for the desktop no problems, apart from audio apps but these arent *average home user* applications ... they are specialist apps. - Chris.