Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 06:13:30 11/30/99
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Here i reply to my own message? Why? I"m using this linux program/unix program called Lynx. I have 20 lines or so. I DO NOT SEE HOW TO INSERT lines. Me as a programmer can not EASILY see how i insert a line. Lynx is heaven compared to linux programs. You need to read gigabyte of doc files and ask a lot of friends how to get things done before you can install it. I never ever tried to install my cable modem in linux i never even installed internet at my system. Linux is improving, no doubts about that, but what is more important in this world, something that works wel or something that works better and better yet the others improve faster? Same question as for computer chess engines. We can only see in the future how it unfolds. For now the Merced is gonna be an important obstacle. If companies like redhat can offer linux systems that are a lot more user friendly and more integrating things with a better compiler than or just as good as the visual compiler, then linux makes a chance to expand. As the world gets more computer expansion is there anyway, but i guess most important is relavite expansion: the % of the market you occupy. For now linux is getting used by f'ing freaks who need to spent nearly fulltime learning how to work with it. that is the main obstacle. Software is of course another point but that's a bit smaller points if linux users would be WILLING to pay for something the average linux user is either student like me or working at a university or learned during his university period to work with it. they don't want to pay for anything. that's the main problem for game developers.
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