Dvorak on How Microsoft Can Kill Linux

gewg_ writes "John C. Dvorak thinks he knows the way Redmond can kill Linux. Basing his premise on the relative dearth of device drivers available for Linux (compared to what is available for Windows), he sees an opportunity for the Borg to embrace and extinguish." From the article: "The immediate usefulness of Linux running under Windows is obvious. You can use all the Windows drivers for all the peripherals that don't run under Linux. Drivers have always been an issue with Linux as PC users have gotten spoiled with Windows driver support. Today's user wants to grab just about anything and not worry about installing it and making it work."

Comments

Where'd the last story go?

[Anonymous Coward]

Did the editors delete it? Little late to take down a dupe.

Re:Where'd the last story go?

[Anonymous Coward]

I was able to read some comments, type up a comment, and once I hit *Submit* it says "There is no discussion to post to"

Re:Where'd the last story go?

[LoverOfJoy]

They didn't remove the comment. It was just modded down. I think you can change your settings such that it will be viewed. Or just click X replies below your current threshold at the bottom of the page.

poop

[timmytheraw]

im drunk and its 11 am

Re:poop

[Anonymous Coward]

You lucky bastard.

Re:poop

[Anonymous Coward]

You are not alone, though time varies across the globe.

And maybe the dope is of a different kin.

Is it hot in here?

[Anonymous Coward]

I blew my boyfriend last night and he filled my mouth with the creamiest orgasm. Yum! I love non-dairy cream if you know what I mean.

Not primarily about drivers

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm not sure that Windows actually supports more drivers "out of the box" than Linux does. In fact, I would say that across platforms, Linux has much better driver support overall.

Linux has two issues, and two issues only. The first is a common packaging format for third party products. This means that I shouldn't have a firefox install for each distro, period. The Firefox guys should be able to create an install bundle that works on all versions of Linux. Macromedia should be able to as well, so that it will automatically detect Firefox and install the plugin appropriately.

Secondly, it needs >98 percent of all options to be available from the GUI *and* context aware from multiple different contexts. One of the best things MS has done is make configuration options available from so many different locations. You can get access to the display driver information by right-clicking the desktop. Truly brilliant, regardless of whether they were the first to do it. In my opinion, SuSE's YAST system is the closest to this I've seen on Linux (I haven't surveyed every last distro), but it still is not as well integrated as it could be. For example, when you click an option, it takes a long time for the option to come up and without any hourglass for a status indicator. Furthermore, even when configuring such things as SAMBA, it doesn't give you the most common things you might want to do as the most obvious options. Providing a long list of every possible option that you can indicate in smb.conf is hardly what I would call making a configuration option GUI-aware.

Remove an article from the front page???

[Anonymous Coward]

Is this the first time that /. has removed an article from the front page after posting? Is anyone else seriously disturbed by this? I think an "update" is appropriate, acknowledging the dupe, but a whole story + users comments should never be removed once posted.

Re:Remove an article from the front page???

[Anonymous Coward]

Probably not, but this looks like Zonk trying to cover his ass. After the earlier RFID mess, he was probably worried about getting yelled at.

/. is behind

[SpongeBobLinuxPants]

boy is /. behind, this article came out 02.22.05

Dear Slashdot...

[sentenzux]

It's a hard decision to take, but i have to leave you.

I've shared many good moments with you, but lets face reality: you've changed. Dupes 3 times a week, recurring stories, you're not really fun anymore.

And today i've discovered you're cheating. You have erased comments, and by doing so, you've broken the love i had for you...

Mod this as you want, that's your right... I bet on Troll. But those that know /. for sometimes know that you're not anymore the one you once was...

Bye /.

8111 64735: 640 columns are sufficient for all!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

There is not standard VESA-like for resolution 1600x1200x[24|32]bpp mode.

ATI & nVidia are secret friends of Microsoft.

open4free © i hate Centrino's WiFi.