Is Windows Ready For Joe Longneck?

Carewolf writes "Is Windows ready for the desktop? We have heard it year after year, that now is the time for Windows on the desktop. But is it really time? Richard K. Yamauchi at OSNews don't think so and has writen a piece that list a number of issues that needs to be solved before Windows is really ready for the masses and "Joe Longkneck"."

Comments

Re:My favorite reason here...

[Anonymous Coward]

have you tried Mac OS X?
I bet you haven't.
And...it's not about the color but about the usability....security, stability, etc.
Windows got full of bugs, unstable, holes, insecure and please don't tell me XP look nice....it's actually pretty bad in a usability point of view.

I laughed until I cried

[PhysicsGenius]

I found this earlier via K5[1]. There's a lot of satire out on the web but mostly it's ham-handed and obvious. So it was refreshing when this subtle, deeply-insightful piece came along. Here's an example:

Netcraft has announced that Windows 2000 server has finally gone for over 2 years without a reboot.

Here we find a nuanced jibe at Windows' stability with a faint but discernable reference to the "BSD is dying" troller. Another:

...XP has the best colors on any OS I've ever seen. Why would you use an OS with inferior colors?

Here the author, with tum in cheek, seems to be advocating an OS based on the desktop colors even though very few people (Mac users excepted) care about how their PC looks. The underlying message is that XP is more about eye-candy than real computing power. Once again, a nugget wisdom with a veil of humor. Well-done.

[1]Whatever else you say about them, they have a more open and democratic story submission system than Slashdot.

lame

[Victors Monster]

This is supposed to be funny?

Hasn't the novelty of amateur online satire worn off by now? "Wow it's a webpage so it looks like my mediocre humour is FOR REAL BIG TIME PUBLISHED! I'm sure the nerds on slashdot will LOVE it!"

Oh, I get it - it's funny because it's making fun of windows. Let's start a fight over which Linux distro is best on the desktop just to make sure we churn through all the tedious motions.

Ok...

[Kshu]

Try teaching your 42 years old father to use KDE. Than talk about Linux being ready for "The Desktop"

Holy shit

[A Vengrow]

hahaha!!! thats great, thats the funniest thing i have heard today, shit maybe weeks! Holy shit that was hilarious. I couln't stop laughing. We need more stories like this, then maybe we won't have so many poeple OD-ing on prozac!!! You know why I keep hitting my self in the head with a hammer? Cause it feels so good when I stop!

Re:only Windows can do everything?

[mvdw]

Sorry, but neither MacOSX nor Linux nor FreeBSD (mostly on account of being dead ;-) )will do what I need to do, and that is engineering apps. No EDA software, no software for synthesising FPGA's. And that's why I can't switch. I'd love to run *nix here at work, but there just isn't the app support.

Re:Very true

[mvdwege]

If

1. The monitor supports DDC (All modern monitors except for the most crappy OEM models do) and
2. The Linux distribution in question runs XFree86 4.0 or higher (all 2001 and later distros do),

Then Joe User will have no problems running his new monitor at all.

Please be so kind as to take your stale FUD elsewhere.

Mart