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Windows and Linux User Interfaces

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the something-to-think-about dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "Greg Raiz, Boston based interface designer and former Microsftie takes a look at Linux and outlines key shortcomings and strengths of an OS that could take on a giant."

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  1. People Avoid Change by aquatone282 · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's why I'm still booting CP/M on my Commodore 128!

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  2. Recruit VB Developers? by 0kComputer · · Score: 3, Funny

    Microsoft has put most its eggs in the .NET platform and has abandoned tens of thousands of VB developers by pulling support and further development on VB6. There is an opportunity for the open source community to create a VB compatible IDE that could compile applications for both to Windows and Linux. Such an IDE in conjunction with WINE could bring not only applications but also developers to the Linux platform.

    so basically the strategy here is to take the shittiest developers from the windows platform and get them to write garbage code on linux?

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  3. Re:Linux is FINE by jzeejunk · · Score: 3, Funny

    My parents use it, my grandmother runs Fedora, and I convert others on a daily basis.

    Wow you must all be living in your great grand parents' basement ;)

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  4. Linux doesn't need to get ready by johansalk · · Score: 3, Funny

    A week ago I started learning 'Unix' and all related stuff. I'm surprised at how fast I'm progressing. I'm also impressed by what I'm learning. I can use LaTeX and ConTeXt instead of MSWord, and they really kick MSWord's ass big time. I can use gnumeric and R project for statistics, and they really, really kick MSExcel's ass (I can cite studies where gnumeric proved far much superior and accurate, but I don't want their sites slashdotted). I can use grep, sed, awk and perl for parsing text. I can use vim for editing. I can use the superior cdraw, imagemagick for images (I can cite studies where cdraw and imagemagick proved much better in quality of results than photoshop, but I don't want their sites slashdotted). Soon I'll be able to use avisynth on linux.
    Here's my point, people don't need to be beginners all their friggin' life. They should learn a little computing if they're going to use the computer for hours everyday. I wish I had done this much earlier, but had I not considered a switch to linux I wouldn't have; I have been using MS platform and related applications for 20 yeras and now I feel I have been encouraged to remain dumb for 20 years. In my experience, linux is the clear winner platform. I wish they'd teach linux skills in school - had kids learnt to use Bash, LaTex, Python, and R, this would be a much, much better world.