Author: Anthony Cozzie
Date: 19:10:49 08/11/04
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On August 11, 2004 at 18:10:19, Peter Berger wrote: >>1. Great selection of good window managers. (things like collapse to title bar, >>multiple desktops, right-click start menu, dock, etc). > >A first issue where I wonder how this is supposed to be an advantage over XP. IMHO, the windows GUI is very bad. Once you have gotten used to multiple desktops, you won't want to go back. Another example: there is a principle in GUI design that the most valuable real estate is at the corners, because they are the easiest to reach: you just slam the cursor on that direction. Windows places the start menu _just out_ of the corner, making it very annoying ;) Blackbox, on the other hand, has a simple rightclick menu -> all I have to do is find some open screen. There are a lot of other issues with the windows GUI; those are just some of the more egregious examples. >>2. Journalling filesystems. > >What's wrong with NTFS ? - never had problems with it. Actually this was *the* >major turn-off for me that made me reinstall Windows on the one system that had >Linux for a longer period of time at my basement. I think it had something >called Reiser FS or maybe JFS. At some point it crashed - it entered the kernel >debugger ( or sth equivalent), and I had to run a manual fsck on the root >filesystem to get it booted again. At that time this was sth I was pretty used >to at work with ill Unix systems, so it was not really hard, but once I had >entered this fsck -f whatsoever dfgsdfg I came to the conclusion that this was >not what I needed. NTFS is a massive improvement over FAT, of course. JFS is a little buggy. I have used XFS for years without a single problem. The nice thing about journaling filesystems is that should your computer crash or lose power, your filesystem itself will never be corrupt. Otherwise, if the disk happened to be writing to a directory inode, you are in deep shit. XFS also has some really good caching algorithms. >>6. Elegant package based distros (upgrade your entire machine with one command. >>It works as well or better than windows update, but it does your applications >>too) > >With one mouseclick everything is updated :) ? Yes, but Windows Update doesn't update MS Word, or MS Excel, or your games, etc. ;) >> >>7. Free. > >Yes, that's nice - in case time doesn't make up for it. Well, I certainly have no trouble with those who say "Linux is only free if your time is worthless". I have never claimed Linux is for everyone. anthony
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