PC still playing Amiga catchup

[quarkx]

Hi,


Switch to a good OS, switch to Linux, it's easy it is free,

smerf

Well, I am trying to stay far away from this debate, but when I read that Linux is EASY, I just can't help but wondering what he has been smoking! Linux (to a newbee) IS far from easy and one of the most frustrating things in the world to get up and running (unless you have a "Live Boot" cd). I can walk through over the phone anyone through a Windows format and install because Microsoft has  it down to a science. I have many times tried to "get into Linux" by trying to install it on various machines, and it has always failed for one reason or another. Linux is wayyy to advanced for the uneducated home user.

But this is way off topic, I have been hearing the same song and dance from Linux fans since 1996 and so far nothing has changed. ABSOLUTELY nothing except that some brand names have tried to bring linux out on their machines (ASUS) and even 90% of those sold with Linux, were sold with an XP license and  upgraded to XP.

[quarkx]

Hi,

@quarkx

OK, Have you tried Ubuntu,

smerf

Yes, Infact Ubuntu sent me about 20 CD's a few years back to try to "Convert" me, but, to be honest, all I got to work was the "live CD" and I thought the brown gui was just plain Fugly.

Second, When I talk of Windows, I am only talking XP, NT4 Win 2000 etc, because, even Microsoft knows that VISTA is the worst piece of software since Windows ME. EVEN Microsoft BOB was better than VISTA Period. You can't compare anything the VISTA, because there is just no Argument. EVEN GW BASIC was a better Code than VISTA. Even Mr. Gates has eluded many times on his displeasure with VISTA. That is the reason for MS rushing out Windows 7, because the big Corporations will not put up with Vista. I guess it is easy to match the worst OS ever written to Linux, and Linux will shine every time, But the simple fact is over 10 years have past and linux has not made any more dent in the real world. It is sad, but like Amiga, Linux will never be accepted by the general public.
But enough, because I don't want to be looked at as trolling here.

[quarkx]

@quarkx

Regarding the default gui on ubuntu, you do realise that you can change the entire look and feel of pretty much any linux distro as much or as little as you like, right? There are a dozen window managers, all of which are customisable to the hilt.

As for Vista, yeah it isn't great. But it does have DX10. Which is all I really use it for

The CD's they sent me, it wasn't all that apparent, it would not even use my second monitor at the time, but I only had used it of about 20 minutes and in that time nothing impressed me about it, so I had tossed it.
Also XP CAN use DX 10, it originally was coded on XP, but MS chose to disable it in XP for fear that it would absolutely KILL any chance of selling VISTA. There was some 3rd party trying to restore DX10 on XP about a year ago, but I admit, I have not kept up to date on it.
When I had my computer store 90% of my bench work was "Downgrading" VISTA to XP on new computers. 100% of the 500 or so ASUS EECPC's that I sold, the customers had requested to have XP installed before they got them out of the store. (This was the original batch of EEC's) So, I can honestly say after 20 years in the computer field, only about 10% of the tech's I have ever worked with were Linux fans. The public ALWAYS ignored linux., and the thousands of PC's I have built over the years, all (100%) were Windows boxes, because that is what the customer wanted.

[quarkx]

The final curtain:

If Amiga was still alive today it would indistinguishable from a PC. There hardware would have changed/adapted to keep costs down. It would be an X86-64 system. The OS would have to compete against a no doubt more advanced M$ Windows. Amiga OS itself would probably be heavily bloated to cover all the different tasks expected of it. Windows is your Amiga brother from another mother.

It was stated before and in the book "On the Edge", that the "Next" Amiga's were going to loose the Amiga OS and use Windows NT., So even then, it was know that the Amiga would have been just another Windows box by now.
I mean hey, once you have the software, and it is proven on "generic" hardware, its just a matter of time, before they start slipping Generic hardware under the hood to save costs.