adolescent wrote:
HopperJF wrote:
LINUX = too complex, not friendly enough. No professional software available. No standard hardware platform.
Too complex? For a Mac user, possibly. For anyone that has been around computers for a while it's not too difficult. KDE is becoming very user friendly. Normal users won't have to go into the shell at all.
No professional software? Sure, there isn't as much as Mac or PC. But there is plenty plenty of commercial software available. Is Oracle available for MacOS? Other than the software that is available, a lot of Windows software can be run on x86 Linux.
No standard platform? Umm, this isn't a bad thing. Closed architecture is a bad thing. I'd prefer to pick the pieces that I want in a system rather than have it decided for me. Being stuck with a single company with limited model scope is severely limiting.
It is good to hear KDE is finally becoming user friendly, and the user will not have to delve into any shells.
Closed architecture for me is simpler, you don't have to worry about getting the software to work on your particular system.
Isn't Linux moving away from PPC now anyway? Or is that just SuSe?
As you can see I am no expert on Linux, but based the statement on my own and some friends personal experiences.
A friend of mine had a go at Linux switching from Windows XP last Christmas. He played around with various distros and found the one that he thought was easiest to use. Mandrake. (Insert better suggestion here).
He had many problems early on, eventually as he got used to it (a bit) he decided that the software just wasn't there.
He wants to stick with his Kazaa, MSN Messenger, MusicMatch because there is simply no better equivalents (in his opinion) available for Linux.
Windows in my opinion is still very poor, I was running XP on a fairly high end PC under a year ago and the problems we had with it! :pissed:
Without tempting fate here, in the 7 months I have been using this eMac I have had a big fat ZERO number of problems. Something seemed to go wrong with the PC more or less every few weeks.
Now please, do not feed me the maintenance crap (scan disk, disk defragment etc) because we did all that, and it was just a long, lengthy waste of time. I haven't had to do much maintenance on this Mac at all, and it continues to serve me well.
AmigaOS - now, there is hope.
Agreed on the fact that previous versions are good operating systems, if lacking support, but you have to take into account that the latest "full" version is nearly half a decade old.
OS4 looks to be coming on well, and I am very excited about Hyperion's development of AmigaOS.
Now changing the subject a little here, my friend will simply not switch back to Linux from XP if there is equal or better equivalents available for the following:-
- MSN Messenger
- Kazaa
- Musicmatch
If anyone can inform me of some good Linux equivalents of these programs, I will appreciate it.
