Are you kidding me? I type so much that I've almost completely forgotten how to write longhand! My handwriting has gotten so bad that on the rare occasion I have to write a check it looks like a 3-year-old got hold of the checkbook...
Is having Microsoft applications in Linux really what will give Linux the push to rule the world?
I don't think so.
One of my favorite things about Linux is its diversity from Windows. Extremely tedious tasks in Windows take a few lines of a shell script in Linux; I can see almost all of the source code to my applications and can configure my working environment to the hilt.
So I truly wonder why there's even a desire to bring Windows applications onto Linux.
Shouldn't we be more concerned with making the native Linux applications better? It seems to me that it would be much easier to improve on something already written for the Linux platform than trying to fit an ugly square peg in a beautiful round hole.
I used to think I wanted IE for Linux. Now, after seeing M17, I want a kick-ass Mozilla. And it seems like it's almost here.
Is bringing Office to Linux really going to bring the hordes of Office users over to Linux? Or if StarOffice or its like was as intuitive to use as Office and Office users could pick it up quickly, I think they wouldn't care if they were running Windows or Linux or whatever.
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Are you kidding me? I type so much that I've almost completely forgotten how to write longhand! My handwriting has gotten so bad that on the rare occasion I have to write a check it looks like a 3-year-old got hold of the checkbook...
seeing as they didn't finish TPM until almost a week before release, I'll bet that whatever cut they saw was *not* the final edit...
email.
Remember when everyone thought, "I'll never fill up 2 gigs!"? It's funny you don't hear that so much anymore.
Now a days, it's like, "When's that 13 gig double-sided rewritable dvd coming out? I'm running out of space!"
Ahh, the beauty of digital media...
Is porting really the answer?
Is having Microsoft applications in Linux really what will give Linux the push to rule the world?
I don't think so.
One of my favorite things about Linux is its diversity from Windows. Extremely tedious tasks in Windows take a few lines of a shell script in Linux; I can see almost all of the source code to my applications and can configure my working environment to the hilt.
So I truly wonder why there's even a desire to bring Windows applications onto Linux.
Shouldn't we be more concerned with making the native Linux applications better? It seems to me that it would be much easier to improve on something already written for the Linux platform than trying to fit an ugly square peg in a beautiful round hole.
I used to think I wanted IE for Linux. Now, after seeing M17, I want a kick-ass Mozilla. And it seems like it's almost here.
Is bringing Office to Linux really going to bring the hordes of Office users over to Linux? Or if StarOffice or its like was as intuitive to use as Office and Office users could pick it up quickly, I think they wouldn't care if they were running Windows or Linux or whatever.
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