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Getting Past "Ready For the Desktop"

Posted by timothy on from the it's-been-ready-for-mine-for-a-while dept.

Jeremy LaCroix suggests in an editorial at Linux.com that the phrase "ready for the desktop" is ready for retirement. As anyone who's been using Linux for several years (or even a few) for everyday tasks knows, "ready for the desktop" is in the eye of the beholder.

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  1. Re:DOS by Nossie · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    huh? chipset yes..

    CPU... Windows is PPC compatible right?
    GFX .... ATi/Nvidia/Intel we missing anyone?
    Memory .... generic etc
    hard disk... generic flash and magnetic
    Monitor ... generic DVI

    Its funny... OSX runs fine on my AMD Fx53... MS official SP3 can't even do that. It never saw my promise sata controller however :( I'll give you that one, but then neither does Vista/XP until I download the driver.

    Win modems... I'll give you that one :) but hey you can keep em!

    Walt disney webcams and scanners... well yeah that't a tricky one, but in past experience its not the OS that had problems, its the shitty quality hardware and drivers (see win modems) to begin with.

    Microsoft cant seem to find the funding to keep 2k alpha or Itanium Vista in production... yet apple has with reasonable ease jumped what 4 completely different architectures in 12 years?

    The days of the apple 'predetermined hardware' myth is over... I cant think of anything that wont run on OSX that runs fine on Vista