Windows Nearly Ready For Desktop Use

wallykeyster writes "NewsForge (ed: a Slashdot sister site) has an interesting review of Windows XP Home, written from the perspective of a longtime Linux user (ed: Editor roblimo). The article clearly is intended to be somewhat humorous while making a point to the 'Linux isn't ready for the desktop' crowd. The reviewer does a fair job of pointing out the strengths of Windows along with the weaknesses that would be apparent to someone trying to make the switch from Linux." From the article: "Windows XP can't be considered consumer-ready until it has driver support for common LCD monitors during its installation and bootup procedure, especially if those monitors are easily and routinely recognized by popular Linux distributions. It's possible that the monitor manufacturers aren't willing to give Microsoft and other proprietary operating system companies the information they need to create appropriate drivers and that the manufacturers, not Microsoft, deserve the blame for this problem."

Comments

Didn't RTFA..

[t_allardyce]

LCD monitor drivers are less important than graphics drivers. Find me a graphics card that works under linux but not under windows.

Ug, roblimo

[Elshar]

Its really a shame we can't also have an option to 'hide stories written by roblimo but posted/submitted by someone else'

Dumb

[KrisCowboy]

What sort of moron would switch from Linux to Windows? Why would anyone do that? Wait, may be for a reduced productivity. Linux makes me more productive, anytime. I'm fairly good at 5 programming/scripting languages, thanks to free software. My system doesn't crash absurdly. And I don't pay ridiculous amounts for any software.

I agree 100%

[NineNine]

I mean really. Why would I want to run actual applications on my OS? 1/10 times, when I can get a Linux install to finish, it is often quite pretty to sit and look at. Of course, I can't get a decent accounting package, point of sale package, and there's nothing that comes close to VB for quick development, but Linux *is* pretty to look at. I think that once I actually got Firefox to work on a distribution (well, once... I never found a shortcut and couldn't figure out how to launch it after the first time), and it was very cool! I felt like I was back in 1995... excited just to get a program actually working! Sure, my sound never worked, but it was pretty to look at once it got finished installing.

Fucking Windows. It always works, and it's easy to install useful programs and get work done. What's the point of that?

You sir, are an asshole

[NineNine]

(they should, at $8k a semester!)

People that think that $8K/semester is a lot for a college education should simply not be allowed to reproduce.

Then, you leave this poor kid stranded on a college campus with a computer that nobody could fix? Are you some kind of sadist? So instead of this kid getting the most out of oh-so-expensive college, you force him to waste his time dicking around with his computer because of some bullshit principles you have about computer software?

If my dad was as much of a dick to me in the same way you are to your son, I'd disown him.

Re:Longtooth will solve these problems...

[eno2001]

Apparently, you just don't get it.

Ahhhhh!!! I've just gone recursive on your ass now. What are you going to do about it? :P