Linux (any distro) is a fascination that quickly turns into a hobbie and
then a real job. If all you do is surf the web, no problem. But try to
use it in a business where you have to be financially productive and
interface with others using Windows or Macs. Good luck. Been there done
that and it will ruin your life!
Well Frank, since you are so enamoured with "real facts", how about if you
don't use your personal experience to make unsupported anecdotal
statements. GNU/Linux works just fine (most distros) for people who know
how to use it, just like Windows does. I wonder how you define
"financially productive". What is the cost in time/money of 'cleaning' a
compromised system and which systems have needed the most 'cleaning' over
say, the last 10 years? In addition, I am "interfacing" with Windows users
at this moment, can't you read my comments? Guess which operating system
I'm using.
Actually, I don't have anything against Vista, not trying to support the
poster you responded to, I think the comments are over-the-top. Some of my
friends use Vista. ;-) I will mention that Ubuntu is not problem free
either and I'm not sure someone who has a problem with UAC will care for
sudo either. Not to mention the security issue with sudo as Ubuntu
implements it.
Ruin your life, indeed! I hope you mean that tongue-in-cheek. There is
very often a steep learning curve when something different is attempted,
you weren't born knowing how Windows works either, or where to look for
things. I'm certainly not going to try and don't even want to advocate
anything other than Vista in an MS Vista newsgroup. But, people should use
what works for them and not trash what they don't understand. I mean that
for both of you to consider. Given an already installed and correctly
configured computer, many users could use any of the three you mentioned,
if the applications resembled each other sufficiently that they could
figure where to click to do what they want. And most of them don't care
what it is, just that it works. Many of them also could not successfully
install Vista and make it work correctly if they need a driver for
hardware that doesn't have a native Windows one or if they need something
that a wizard doesn't do for them. Gosh, many people can't even figure out
how to get the mail store from their old XP computer to the new Vista one.
I assume you're just responding to what you think is a troll, I have no
idea if it is or not but the poster also sounds like a person who had a
frustrating experience and is venting. There is enough of that
in the newsgroups these days to indicate to me that people are having
trouble with the Vista differences. Sounded like you were venting too.
But, not just MS newsgroups, have a look at the whining and crying over in
Debian GNU/Linux newsgroups, now that the new version has been released,
from people who didn't read the release notes before trying to upgrade.
Most people just don't like having to learn something new and it really
does seem to get harder as one gets older.
I have seen that you do post good advice, but there is sometimes a 'sharp
edge' to it and that tends to be unproductive and may even attract trolls.
....or people like me who 'lecture'.
I will now stop my OT posting, it won't help with the original problem
which I consider a feature not a bug.
Rodney
