I used both win98 (for Notes mails, company de facto standard) and SuSE 7.1 for project and web-servers and WAN. I prefer Linux as I almost don't see 'Application error', etc like winblow though my SuSE workstation only ON when I in the office (to prevent fire harzard). There are thousand of software for winblow, but I believed in someday, many of these will be Linux friendly. Other Linux users in my office also don't like to use winblow after they get used to Linux, but all of us still have to use winblow as simply too many applications are not available in Linux now. I am building up my Linux network at home, only one PC and my notebook will be using winblow (for my study, they used custom winblow oriented software), other PCs are all on Linux. ; ) I agreed that it takes a lot of effort to learn Linux, more hours spent, but I save lots of hours on rebooting winblow machines when it hang/crash, afterall, I do have the bucks to spend on win2k, expensive software but I'm managed to get myself a new SuSE Linux distro when I have enough fun with the older distro. :) For the moment, Linux may not be the suitable choice for inexperience desktop users, but I believe this is going to change, sooner or later. Just my view. Dennis/sg
Missing documentation? Are you blind..
I swear..either people say there is too much documentation..or not enough..there is not enough software..or there is too much.
I wish people would come out and say that they don't want to do Linux on the desktop because they don't want to learn how anything works..they want it to do everything for them...*shrug* oh well.
=>This is truely (next to missing overview on thousands of docs) the =>largest disadvantage with linux.
-- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org ----- If two men agree on everything, you can be sure that only one of them is doing the thinking.