On Saturday 12 Jun 2004 19:32, Scott Leighton wrote:
On Saturday 12 June 2004 11:01 am, dmc wrote:
Scott Leighton wrote:
On Saturday 12 June 2004 10:44 am, Donn Washburn wrote:
Care to straighten this Guy out?
Not really, he's dead on right. I agree with him 100%.
Scott
He is only partially correct and burying half-truths and uninformed perspective within a presumably thoughtful article leads to others parroting the same unclear thinking.
He needs to start with the context that hardware is only difficult to address because hardware manufacturers release inadequately complete driver sets.
Why, he's talking about his experience with a Linux distribution versus Windows. What makes you think that he is obligated to explain his experience in terms of what hardware mfgs choose to do or not do.
He needs to observe that even when hardware manufacturers market defective devices (e.g. winmodems) Linux folks have been able work around some of that junk and force functionality.
Ditto. He's a user, a user could care less about the politics of whether or not manufacturers choose to support any particular OS. A user simply cares about whether or not the box 'works'.
He also needs to observe that a pattern of Microsoft manipulation has long-since been documented wherein they have pressured hardware manufacturers to refuse to release sufficient data to allow Linux folks to do what they (the manuafacturer) should -- package Linux drivers along with MS and Mac drivers.
That crap is nothing but excuses. A user cares nothing about it and frankly is sounds like whining to me.
He needs to note that SuSE 9 and 9.1 and Mandrake 10 and other newer distros load and run with similar levels of ease to XP -- but that just as with XP one must choose approved hardware -- because XP will not run on any hardware anywhere anytime -- though there are far more companies configuring their PC's to favor XP compatibility than those doing so for Linux -- the advantage of M$'s current superior user-base position in the marketplace.
You are flat out wrong. There is no similarity in ease of use between Linux distros and XP. XP wins hands down. You have an agenda you want to push, the author doesn't.
you have gotta be seriously jokin there XP wins yes in the SLOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW clutsy fall over and reboot with no warning stakes (mind you spose you get used to that with windBlows)
I like Linux and am now a SuSE user of a little over 1 month. I have no intention of going back to windows, but the fact is that none of the Linux distros are ready for home desktop use by the typical non-technical user. It is far too complicated to get things running and configured correctly and the author of the article hit it right on in his points.
how wrong you are i have several so called non-technical folks quite at home with linux ..
'nuff said.
Whatever.
more like yea! whatever!.
Scott
HTH ... dmc
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