Author: Sune Fischer
Date: 00:02:08 08/11/04
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On August 10, 2004 at 23:53:09, Christophe Theron wrote: >It turned out I could do everything -or almost- in Linux. When there was >something I could not do with Linux, I managed to find alternatives (booting an >outdated version of Windows in another partition, or running this outdated >version of Windows inside Linux with an emulator like Win4lin or VMware). So in other words you can't live without windows entirely :) Actually, I'm not joking, I had much the same problem. I know it's possible to do practicly everything with linux, you just have to recompile the kernel, install patch number 307im3992slle, run ./configure, edit the makefile to suit your environment, login as root and copy the kernel image, reconfigure lilo and voila, it works without you "having to lift a finger". Ehh, that's not for me thank you, I'm way past that. I'm tired of all that rocket science multiOS messing about, I want to spend a minimal amount of effort on "playing" with the OS, I want my play with my applications instead. In windows it's double click the binary and follow the installation wizard (mostly just click ok-button a few times). Linux is great in many ways, but there is only so much you can do with 'vi' and 'tcsh'. I want games! Yes, and I'm not talking about packman. I want my network configured automaticly, I don't have time to become an expert on networks and it doesn't really interest me at all either. I want to have an update button for automatic patching. I can't imagine having to spend time browsing through webpages to find new patches - this should be an integral part of the OS and happen as automaticly as possible. Finally, and this is really the biggie for me, lot of great software just doesn't exist on Linux, such as 3D studio max, Photoshop and (ugh) Chessbase. >So I never switched to XP. I switched to Linux instead, and I am glad I did. > >Of course it's not perfect every day. But I have spent 15 years dealing with >problems caused by Windows and the fact that Microsoft has always placed market >lock-in over respect for their customers. Compared to that, the few problems I >have experienced with Linux are NOTHING. You quit windows at a bad time, you should definitely have tried 2000 or XP. Those are minor revolutions with regard to stability over the very crappy winME. I went from win98 to win2k, I was very impressed with 2k, then I tried winME for about 1 week. I can honestly say, that winME is the worst OS I have ever used, it crashed like 3 times an hour. With winXP I can count the number of crashes on one hand, it is extremely stable and I don't even treat it very nice. :) -S.
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