Lost track of the main subject here but... On 2004/08/23, at 23:58, Glenn Hancock wrote:
Sorry, I was just mucking about. Though I slightly mean it, in that yes, Linux lets you know that you'll have to put some work in to get the system you want, where windows pretends it's all going to be just putting in your disk and clicking - but it rarely is as simple as that, is it? One of the main UK pc comics was advising a reader last week that he should consider downloading 3 separate progs and their updates just to shift the spyware he'd picked up in a weekend's e-shopping.
Its ok to joke around, I just get tired of people skewing the facts. First off before you get too carried away with the number of problems with windows you need to keep numbers straight. Linux doesn't hold a very large share of the market which means there are millions more users in windows than linux.
For the desktop, you mean?
Secondly, my hard drive crashed on Monday of last week. I had to reload everything. My windows box is 100% up and running after running install and loading the updates from the web. My linux box running SUSE 9.1 still is not working as the CD player doesn't play music CD's and the USB external drive I have locks the entire system up so hard that only a hard boot will get things going again.
I had it the other way around here.
So while I'm not saying windows is perfect, anyone has to concede that it does a lot better job handling hardware issues than linux does.
Well, that's because the hardware vendors provide the drivers. Tell them to support linux as much as they support Windows so you won't have any hardware issues. (But let's be honest, there are times that not even supported products work properly under Windows...)
And you need to keep in mind that I hate windows.
:) I don't hate it myself, I just don't use it that often. (There are at least two software/programs I need it for...)
I despise having to boot to it, but when the programs I need won't run in linux and the linux counterparts crash and don't handle things correctly, what other choice do I have...
Try OS X ;)
Maybe - but is Windows? Depends what you want to do, I suppose, but although the Windows users I know have different problems from the ones I have, they certainly don't appear to have fewer. SuSE's been my prime time desktop for several years now. Best Fergus
Again, keep the numbers straight with percentages. Would you think Linux could handle the worlds populous on home users and office workers computers? I dont' think we're anywhere close to that process.
Maybe not, not yet at least. But I know many places/countries where people/government agencies are now moving towards linux or OS X.
I am impressed with the improvements but there are still way too many hardware issues and lack of available software to think it will happen anytime soon. Just compare Photoshop CS to the latest version of Gimp and you'll get my point.
Are you talking about price here? :)
glenn
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