Author: Guido Schimmels
Date: 12:41:08 05/20/02
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On May 19, 2002 at 11:49:18, Christophe Theron wrote: >BTW I'm trying Linux too, but I can't get used to it. I thought it was small and >elegant, but actually it is as bloated as Windows and quite slower. Try WindowMaker or XFCE (which I prefer) as a desktop environment. You can boot in both of them with <30MB total memory usage, which isn't too much nowadays. Then try ROX-Filer as a file-manager and prefer gtk/gnome based apps. Problem is, I admit, there is no real alternative to Star Office/OpenOffice and Mozilla/Netscape/Galeon, which means you still won't get very far with 64MB, if you want to do professional text-processing and painless web-browsing. >And too hard to use. The guys who write programs for Linux only have the >experienced users in mind. Fatal mistake. Maybe that's still true for too many open source projects, but in general this is no longer true. Example: GNOME 2 will add lots of support for disabled people. >Shit. I really hoped to get rid of Windows, but Linux is still not ready. Ok, Linux is not perfect in respect to ease of use, like MacOS(X), but not much behind Windows I find. And some things are now even easier in Linux than Windows. Real issues are: 1. The latest or exotic hardware will often not work with Linux - and that won't change until Linux is mainstream. 2. Lack of apps in some fields 3. Proprietary data-formats, like btw. Acrobat Reader 5 for Linux and Solaris has just been announced, one year after the Windows and Mac ports. Again, won't change until Linux is mainstream. > Christophe I'd like to ask, what exactly you found so hard or didn't get working in Linux ? Guido e-mail: guido.schimmels@freenet.de
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