What? The four wiggly squares on the Meta key are supposed to be windows? But it doesn't open any windows when I press it, and I don't run Beryl, so my windows don't wiggle anyway.
There exists one type of Mac app some people would be very happy to run on Linux: Blockbuster game titles that have been ported to the Mac but not Linux. 99% of show stoppers in Wine/Cedega gaming seem to be DirectX related, so why not pick a version of a game that has already been ported to another OpenGL based platform?
usable and reliable as Windows 95 Is that another one of your truths? I remember people spending months continuously installing it on the same PC because of its awesome reliability.
Mixing Windows source code with the Linux base? That's really far-fetched. After all, they're fundamentally different architectures. The only use for the Windows source in Linux would be to execute legacy applications that don't run in Wine, but then, the license doesn't matter.
Count my girlfriend, too. She's completely computer illiterate. Windows constantly broke on her desktop, or some idiot went and broke it. So I upgraded it to Kubuntu, installed some emulators so she could play her favorite console games and guess? She's happy. She also found out by herself how to watch and backup DVDs, rip Audio CDs to MP3 and manage her picture collection. So far, after 6 months, there hasn't been an issue that required me to look at her PC myself.
So, in my experience, Linux is ready for the average user, as long as that user has access to a Linux savvy friend.
And create a standard for it so that user's can buy "Linux Desktop for Dummies", instead of [insert distro vendor] Desktop for Dummies, which will never get written because distro-specific is too small a niche. Here you go.
They would have the idea after I showed them, but they don't have to anyway. Of course you can also press CTRL-Escape to pop up KSysGuard and renice the process there without touching "that nasty keyboard thingy".
That's part of the reason why your attempt at trolling will never really hit it big on Slashdot.
I'm not challenging your thinking, but I'd like to know exactly what Linux offers that Windows and Mac failed to offer. Is it simply that it's open source and that's the killer feature for you? Please elaborate on your strong but very broad statement. For me, the killer features (compared to Windows) are:
Package manager. No need to manually hunt down, install, clean up or update software.
Highly configurable and concise GUI (KDE).
The GUI doesn't get in the way with popups and stuff.
Better multitasking and responsiveness, and better handling of applications that hang.
Bash as a commandline fallback if you screwed something up.
ext3 is faster and more robust than NTFS.
Cool, unbloated desktop apps like Kaffeine, k3b and Amarok.
This is why Linux distributors supply custom built kernels in different flavors. In desktop distributions like Kubuntu or Mandriva, the standard kernel is in fact configured to be responsive for desktop use.
I don't get it. The average person launches Adept or Synaptic, because that is "where the software is", ticks the box before the software(s) he wants to install, and clicks "install" or "apply". Untick to uninstall. No messing with config files. It must be a long time since you had your hands on Linux.
Take the Linux Kernel, Run every program as root, install a bunch of 3rd party drivers Both is not required in Linux. Of course a distribution on 90% of desktops would be a huge target, but if security fixes came in as fast as usual, the number of PCs comprimised by an exploit would be relatively low compared to what we see with Windows today.
The Windows NT Kernel is actually a very good kernel. It is the fact that the rest of the OS is designed in a way that cause problems to occure. Not so true. It was a good kernel until the 9x tree with all the DOS legacy was merged in. Suddenly we had a load of redundant APIs from different eras which were generally not fun to program. Believe me, I hacked Windows for 10 years until I vomited and went Linux-only. Windows has become more and more confusing and dumbed down, inside as well as outside.
As long as Microsoft can maintain a quick pace of innovation, Linux will always be chasing behind it. It has been a long time since Microsoft and innovation used to be mentioned within the same sentence. This is not how they maintain their position in the marketplace.
Society's today seem to be fixated on how sex is bad for you. What are you talking about? Given that you don't live in some weird country in Northern America.
Or is it limited to just 3rd world countries like Mexico, Africa, etc Mexico is a 2nd world country and Africa is a continent. I think you need to learn more about geography.
Oh, please, you know that you mention MS in an article on/. that there are tons of calls to bone doctors because knees jerk so hard they jam them under desks. Some of these people should read/. standing up because it would entertain others with their funny walks. You must be speaking of MS employees reading Slashdot.
Secondly, the market that Linspire is aiming towards doesn't give a flying crap about:
1) software licenses
2) patents
3) irrational hatred of Microsoft Too bad this market doesn't exist on the Linux side of things. Everybody not bothering about 1-3 is absolutely unlikely bothering about Linux at all.
You can have the same amount of speed and reliability in both. Not always correct. A driver in userspace has to do a (time consuming) CPU context switch every time it talks to the hardware. Especially with high-troughput hardware like graphics cards, this may impose a limit on the bandwidth if not managed well. On the other hand, a buggy driver in userspace cannot easily crash the kernel. So, since the bugginess of proprietary drivers is a constant nuisance under Linux, I welcome this method of keeping that stuff out of kernel land. The stable API benefits everyone. The driver maintenance effort for the hardware manufacturers is lower, it may result in more brand new hardware being supported by at least a proprietary driver, and the kernel is not "tainted" by non-GPL modules.
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What? The four wiggly squares on the Meta key are supposed to be windows? But it doesn't open any windows when I press it, and I don't run Beryl, so my windows don't wiggle anyway.
There exists one type of Mac app some people would be very happy to run on Linux: Blockbuster game titles that have been ported to the Mac but not Linux. 99% of show stoppers in Wine/Cedega gaming seem to be DirectX related, so why not pick a version of a game that has already been ported to another OpenGL based platform?
I would appreciate that, because it would keep the lamers and fakers off Bittorrent.
Mixing Windows source code with the Linux base? That's really far-fetched. After all, they're fundamentally different architectures. The only use for the Windows source in Linux would be to execute legacy applications that don't run in Wine, but then, the license doesn't matter.
Count my girlfriend, too. She's completely computer illiterate. Windows constantly broke on her desktop, or some idiot went and broke it. So I upgraded it to Kubuntu, installed some emulators so she could play her favorite console games and guess? She's happy. She also found out by herself how to watch and backup DVDs, rip Audio CDs to MP3 and manage her picture collection. So far, after 6 months, there hasn't been an issue that required me to look at her PC myself.
So, in my experience, Linux is ready for the average user, as long as that user has access to a Linux savvy friend.
20000+ packages (including unsupported repositories) is too limited for you? Dude, get a life!
They would have the idea after I showed them, but they don't have to anyway. Of course you can also press CTRL-Escape to pop up KSysGuard and renice the process there without touching "that nasty keyboard thingy".
That's part of the reason why your attempt at trolling will never really hit it big on Slashdot.
Your post is a textbook example of oldschool FUD and flamebait. And I hope you will be modded appropriately.
This is why Linux distributors supply custom built kernels in different flavors. In desktop distributions like Kubuntu or Mandriva, the standard kernel is in fact configured to be responsive for desktop use.
I don't get it. The average person launches Adept or Synaptic, because that is "where the software is", ticks the box before the software(s) he wants to install, and clicks "install" or "apply". Untick to uninstall. No messing with config files. It must be a long time since you had your hands on Linux.
You are all wrong. If you reverse a fork, you end up with a krof of course.
You must be new here. Oh wait, I almost forgot, this is Slashdot.
1) software licenses
2) patents
3) irrational hatred of Microsoft Too bad this market doesn't exist on the Linux side of things. Everybody not bothering about 1-3 is absolutely unlikely bothering about Linux at all.
He was talking about something that actually works, not about Windows.
I'm on 2007.1. Try and beat that!