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."

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Start the Microsoft bashing.....NOW.

[i41Overlord]

Threads that mention Microsoft end up as free-for-alls to bash Microsoft.

Threads that mention Linux end up as free-for-alls that revolve around the view that Linux is 256x better than Windows.

This thread that mentions Microsoft killing Linux will surely spark some flames.

Re:vmware

[codepunk]

Actually there is a high probability you are using a pirated copy of windows.

It is also funny you mention ease of use because I just click a open office Icon to use it on my linux box, last time I checked that is the same exact action you perform on a windows machine. Hell I can even make it easier on myself and make it a single click to open it.

Re:They're using the wrong OS to begin with

[tepples]

If they want to just install a device and go, then why are they bothering with Windows? Isn't that what Apple OS X is for?

Windows and Linux have GIMP, but Mac OS X has no Free paint program whose GUI meshes somewhat neatly with that of the OS. Not all of us want to pay in the high three figures USD for Adobe Photoshop.

Re:Confused...

[michrech]

No, I'm not mistaken.

I'll repeat, for those of you slow morons.

Xandros != Linux!

Xandros, by your own example, is a DISTRIBUTION of linux, and therefore, not representative of what LINUX, in general, is capable of (Nor is it representative of how stable a linux distribution can be).

Go troll somewhere else.

We are wrong about easy of use.

[rawg]

"Today's user wants to grab just about anything and not worry about installing it and making it work."

If this was true, then the Mac would be on top of the world. Since installing a program is simply drag and drop the app into the folder you want it.

People love messing with drivers and install programs. They love bugs and crashes. They love viruses, worms, and spyware. 90% has said so by using MS Windows.

We are the ones that are wrong in thinking that people want easy to use computers.

So why isn't Dvorak in Gitmo?

[WillAffleckUW]

oh, wait that was Novak ... sorry.

All those old guys who don't grok the real world all seem alike to me.

Re:Don't click

[dutky]

Sxooter wrote:

So, again, how are people spoiled by windows driver support?

Dvorak wasn't referring to Windows or Linux users when he wrote 'people'. He was referring to the people who could fill in the blank in:

1. sell shoddy software to the public.
   
2. software crashes due to driver conflicts, forcing users to download new drivers and re-install everything from scratch.
   
3. ???
   
4. PROFIT!
   

DVORAK's contribution to the world

[thorax]

His ego..

Oh and his keyboard sucks..

PS- Wintel devices are the number one way to
kill linux support, and kill off a good number of
device vendors.

We'll just buy from China if Microsoft eliminates a number of our device drivers for linux.. China will surely embrase Linux centric drivers..