Leythos said:
Give me a break, anyone that gets to the point of being asked a question
is going to either call a friend or just pick one - either way it works
for everything a home user or SOHO user would want. It's actually easier
I do not think so.
then Windows XP for most of the installs I've used.
Maybe so, I not found it so yet. but then most people will buy their
computer with windows XP on, not many computer manufacture will stick
Linux into a computer.
Um, lets see, "Applications, System Settings, Add and Remove Applications"
- looks very easy to me. As for finding NEW applications, not in the
Then it must have changed a lot since I last tried to use Linux and that
was only a few months back
hundreds of applications included on the CD's, sure, there are a couple
But are these applications worth having?
ways to get the, and most are fully automated. Try that with Win based
apps, at least I don't have to leave my home to get a new Word Processor,
a new Accounting Package, a new version of email client that works
directly with all the MS Exchange functions....
Until you come to more advanced software with more specific uses.
I agree - there are many windows apps that have nothing close in the Linux
There you then, Microsoft still got the monopoly and you can not say it
have not.
world, but you can edit video on a Linux box, I read about it all the
time, but I'm not into video/audio editing so I can't speak from
experience.
I seen a couple of the video editing software and they are little better
than the Movie maker which is built into XP.
Wrong on both parts - the apps are driven by the market, that means that
since Linux is now a viable desktop with companies like Novel and IBM
backing them, that more apps will be available, but it will take time, it
didn't happen over-night for MS. I can remember when PageMaker and
PhotoShop finally came out for Windows, it had been around on the MAC for
a LONG time.
No, I am not wrong, there is not much choice at all, do you really think
Microsoft is going to allow Linux to over take or come even anywhere
close? Come on, IBM produced Warp and that failed, novel done well with
it server Os, but then Microsoft knocked that of the market.
Ok, so some corporations may use Linux, our local city authority is
looking at it, but that is only because the way Microsoft likes to keep
in control.
As for Monopoly, wrong again, MS has alternatives, you just make a
personal choice to not use them. Many people choose to not use MS apps for
one reason or another and still get the work done they need to get done.
People are more or less pushed into using Microsoft OS, because you buy
a computer and what is installed on it? as for applications, Microsoft
office is the standard now for an office suite, even Lotus was pushed
out with their spreadsheet.
I sorry to say, people have not got a choice, well they have, but not
much of one. they got more choice with software, but very little with
Os. they could buy a Mac, I suppose, but hardware is so flaming expensive.
There are many devices not fully supported and some not supported at all,
that's just the way it is. I have no trouble with old P2/P3/Dual P3/P4/P4
Oh great, that is going forwards, use it on a old system.
w/HT, and Dual Xeon systems with Fedora Core 3. I would never suggest a
dual boot system, if you ever try it again, use a different PC or install
another drive (and keep the Win one disconnected).
I know Linux is fine for some people and I am sure it will do pretty
well, as it have done, but it have always been and I think always will
have that computer nerd thing about it.
If I mention Linux to other people, they either got no idea what it is,
or still think that it is just a text based OS, which to be honest it
still is.
We will just have to wait and see what happens
