Except its not click and play:
1) Firefox is sluggish, Chrome always wants a newer flash version than is in the distro manager and 64bit OS makes for more fun when your trying to install from adobe's website but in a distro supported way so you can remove it cleanly.
2) ATI drivers suck. The open source one performs miserably (no videos for you), the proprietary one is shit when it comes to new hardware in particular.
3) RDP into windows machines, using Rdesktop on linux can leave you stuck in full screen with no way to quit easily if theres been a connectivity issue especially as console isnt available once x starts thanks to a Nvidia driver bug so blindly logging in, using sudo to killall the process not what id call simple.
4) Network Manager can only handle one vpn connection at a time not very good if you need to connect simultaneously and the bugs been open for years.
5) Want to use say a symbian phone on linux to sync your contacts, send txt's etc? If you can do it, it wont be easy but more likely you will find you can use your phone as a modem etc.. but the more useful features dont work.
6) Want to play some old linux games? Enjoy the hell that is now pulseaudio so legacy games dont work (at least not without workarounds many of which don't work each new distro version that comes out).
When something doesn't work, enjoy the far outdated documentation because its done way differently now compared to two years ago and enjoy being told to RTFM, here is you refund in full, you've got access to the source code don't you?
None of this bodes well for your regular mom and pop user.
Back to Windows:
OEM's package MS Office starter edition now so that takes care of the word processor/spreadsheet issues your talking about and its free otherwise install LibreOffice. PDF Reading What decent OEM wouldn't package Acrobat? but otherwise its not hard to install it or its more light weight alternatives like Foxit Reader. CD/DVD Burning is reasonably good out of the box with Win7/Vista. Notepad++ is a great text editor and not hard to install for the end user they have fancied up wordpad recently (I dont like it preferred the previous version) but no doubt good enough for end users who cant find alternatives.
My main wish at the moment would be for Steam/Valve to support Linux if they can with Mac OS X there's no reason they couldn't with Linux is there?
Didnt know about tabs at the end, thats one of my biggest bugbears with Firefox 5 at the moment.
That and the tab addon Ive been using recently (multi tab handler) so i can close multiple tabs at once will make things much easier, should be native functionality you would think by now (chrome can close multiple selected tabs at once).
I have a kurobox Pro (and before that a Kurobox HG) works with regular debian (including the debian installer) no poking around trying to get freelink debian going or having to compile your own kernels anymore.
I use it to run asterisk for our home phone, backup server, samba to host network files etc.. works great:)
Actually. Debian runs very very well on my Kurobox Pro (ARM CPU based) only downtime is for power cuts! The only problem you could potentially have is binary blob's (like Adobe's Flash Player) but everything else will be fine.
"The numbers reveal, for instance, that 86 percent of Ubuntu machines use the proprietary NVidia driver, where only a mere sliver of Debian machines do."
What do most people use for a server? Debian workstation? Ubuntu. Servers don't need fancy graphics no need for nvidia binary!
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What amazes me is you can buy page-wide business printers right now that still have the vulnerability.
How does an iPod touch not fit in your pocket? What kind of of pants are you wearing?
Skinny jeans?
Ahh so nobody uses windows XP anymore? Didn't get the memo.
Sweet you can download that here: http://download.cnet.com/Sandboxie/3000-2144_4-10371434.html
Look forward to that day.
Except its not click and play: 1) Firefox is sluggish, Chrome always wants a newer flash version than is in the distro manager and 64bit OS makes for more fun when your trying to install from adobe's website but in a distro supported way so you can remove it cleanly. 2) ATI drivers suck. The open source one performs miserably (no videos for you), the proprietary one is shit when it comes to new hardware in particular. 3) RDP into windows machines, using Rdesktop on linux can leave you stuck in full screen with no way to quit easily if theres been a connectivity issue especially as console isnt available once x starts thanks to a Nvidia driver bug so blindly logging in, using sudo to killall the process not what id call simple. 4) Network Manager can only handle one vpn connection at a time not very good if you need to connect simultaneously and the bugs been open for years. 5) Want to use say a symbian phone on linux to sync your contacts, send txt's etc? If you can do it, it wont be easy but more likely you will find you can use your phone as a modem etc.. but the more useful features dont work. 6) Want to play some old linux games? Enjoy the hell that is now pulseaudio so legacy games dont work (at least not without workarounds many of which don't work each new distro version that comes out). When something doesn't work, enjoy the far outdated documentation because its done way differently now compared to two years ago and enjoy being told to RTFM, here is you refund in full, you've got access to the source code don't you? None of this bodes well for your regular mom and pop user. Back to Windows: OEM's package MS Office starter edition now so that takes care of the word processor/spreadsheet issues your talking about and its free otherwise install LibreOffice. PDF Reading What decent OEM wouldn't package Acrobat? but otherwise its not hard to install it or its more light weight alternatives like Foxit Reader. CD/DVD Burning is reasonably good out of the box with Win7/Vista. Notepad++ is a great text editor and not hard to install for the end user they have fancied up wordpad recently (I dont like it preferred the previous version) but no doubt good enough for end users who cant find alternatives. My main wish at the moment would be for Steam/Valve to support Linux if they can with Mac OS X there's no reason they couldn't with Linux is there?
Didnt know about tabs at the end, thats one of my biggest bugbears with Firefox 5 at the moment. That and the tab addon Ive been using recently (multi tab handler) so i can close multiple tabs at once will make things much easier, should be native functionality you would think by now (chrome can close multiple selected tabs at once).
I often want to listen to music while Skype is running cant do that!
using All-Bran too much though the output can get a bit.....unpredictable.
Someone has to do it... When they are done in Britain they should come and lay fibre all around New Zealand.
I have a kurobox Pro (and before that a Kurobox HG) works with regular debian (including the debian installer) no poking around trying to get freelink debian going or having to compile your own kernels anymore. I use it to run asterisk for our home phone, backup server, samba to host network files etc.. works great :)
Actually. Debian runs very very well on my Kurobox Pro (ARM CPU based) only downtime is for power cuts! The only problem you could potentially have is binary blob's (like Adobe's Flash Player) but everything else will be fine.
They call him Mr Mince now.
"The numbers reveal, for instance, that 86 percent of Ubuntu machines use the proprietary NVidia driver, where only a mere sliver of Debian machines do." What do most people use for a server? Debian workstation? Ubuntu. Servers don't need fancy graphics no need for nvidia binary!