Dale said:
And I myself have no problem with Linux. I have stated before and will
continue to state, I wish Linux and Mac all the best and I would be
thrilled if Linux\Mac captured 30-40% of the desktop space. Microsoft is
in dire need of some serious competition, and from something that can't
buy or quash with ease. Linux is in a great spot to do that.
Agreed with that.
Just like 15 years ago, people wanted a change from Novell, if for no
other reason then they just wanted something new, I see the same thing
being true with Windows today. Unfortunately, there seems to be a little
too much infighting within the linux world, especially around the KDE vs.
Gnome stuff (I don't really know, just saw an article). Hopefully the
Not sure on the details there either, I figure it's just a matter of
philosophy as to who likes what UI better. They basically just have
different looks.
One thing though is that it doesn't really matter if you run KDE or Gnome.
If you run KDE you can still run apps written for Gnome and vice versa.
It is kind of nice though to have a choice as to what UI you run. Hell, you
can even switch between the two at will if you are so inclined.
Not *everyone* likes one particular look of an UI which is why I think that
Microsoft's path of "Everything must look alike" is a bad idea. No matter
how good any kind of...anything...is it will never please *everyone*. So MS
forcing one single thing on everyone is bound to piss off all those who
don't like it but also are left with no other alternative choices.
Linux folks can band together in the near future and work on producing a
product that's a windows killer, which in turn I hope sends chills down
Microsoft's spine and they come out with a OS so awesome, we all actually
go wow. Just like after AMD kicked Intel around enough, Intel finally
produced a chip worth going wow over with the Core 2 duo.
There is one significant difference though. It is very easy to switch
processors, just throw in a different motherboard and processor. Done. In
case of intel / amd it has no actual impact on the software end (besides
performance differences).
Switching operating systems tends to be a more permanent type deal as a
person has to use different applications, learn new rules, etc. It has a
major impact on the software end and on how that person performs their
daily tasks on their computer. As such, if someone does switch to another
operating system they are more inclined to not switch back without a really
significant reason to do so.
I can tell ya right now, the performance difference between Kubuntu and XP
is drastic and I've switched over 50% of my needs over already. So even if
MS were to change Vista tomorrow and remove all the things I don't like
about it, I wouldn't get it anymore. No longer would have a need for it
beyond having it around as a test system.
I avoided AMD's until the K7 line, which is when I felt they had enough of
a solid package it was worth the jump. I stayed with Nvidia until ATI
released the 9700\9800 family. So when Linux gets to that same level, then
I probably won't have as much problem with making a jump. until then, I'll
leave it up to the young energetic types to work out all the bugs
Well is linux at the level? Yes it actually is. There are plenty of users in
this very newsgroup that have as much issues with drivers under Vista as
there are people who have issues with drivers under Linux. Personally the
only issue I had was with the default nVidia driver in Kubuntu not working
with my video card as it didn't support the 7800 GT yet. Worked perfectly
fine on my other system with the 6600 though. Also the current beta-release
worked perfectly fine with my 7800 GT. I suspect that when Kubuntu 6.10 was
released that the 7800 GT didn't even exist yet and someone made the simple
mistake of not defaulting to the vesa driver. It takes less than a minute
to fix if you know how.
So little issues like that to me are the primary things that need to be
ironed out.
But what really needs to happen though is that developers need to start
making software for linux. That actually is the key.
This whole argument of "I will use Linux when I can use my Windows apps on
it" that some people like to bring up is actually total crap. It's akin to
saying "I'll drive a car with a diesel engine when I can put gasoline in
it."
It's kind of a vicious circle as people don't like to use linux because
their favorite software doesn't run on it and developers don't make
software for it because enough people aren't using it.
Somehow enough people have to break that circle to make anything change.
I personally do it by making sure that anything I develop from this day
forth will run on all platforms. Was a small learning curve but...not the
end of the world. It doesn't make my day to day work any more difficult now
that I've learned the things I need to know.
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Stephan Rose
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