The problem is that presentations made with Powerpoint 2007+ often don't display in the right way on Impress. People don't even understand this and they are unable to hadle the difference and blame linux for it, instead of Microsoft. Nobody will ever try to make a presentation that is compatible with anything else than Powerpoint because they don't understand the problem. I had to throw money on office licences for my company just for this. It's sad but it's the reality.
If you want Linux to gain acceptance, you need to stop with the hyperbole and start accepting the truth. The truth is:
- There is no common way to install and remove software.
- There is no stable base to write drivers (thus no hardware support)
- There are too many distros with too many proprietary ways of doing things. Too many proprietary repositories, too many proprietary package systems, to many proprietary filesystem layouts.
To be honest, Linux doesn't need to gain acceptance. It already has it, you just don't see it. It will never be on the desktop pc of the common user but the desktop pc as we know it won't last long. On different devices users interact with linux without problems because the point is not the underlaying operating system but the interface you interact with. Android is an example, the average user's Sony camera is another, and so many others.
And you can't even say there's not hardware support, as in facts, Linux runs on old and modern pc hardware, on cameras, on network equip and appliances of all kinds, on ip phones, on mobile phones, on 87% of supercomputers, on consoles, etc. Oh, and there are no proprietary things in linux distributions.
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All Apple's iPad patents are invalid!
What a wonderful world!
The problem is that presentations made with Powerpoint 2007+ often don't display in the right way on Impress. People don't even understand this and they are unable to hadle the difference and blame linux for it, instead of Microsoft. Nobody will ever try to make a presentation that is compatible with anything else than Powerpoint because they don't understand the problem. I had to throw money on office licences for my company just for this. It's sad but it's the reality.
And it's quite likely that the open source drivers will not be as capable or high performance as the proprietary drivers.
Why?
I blame them
IBM and Red Hat Linux Ads are very good, better than Apple's reality distortion field ones.
... and they lag irl
He was the head until he revealed this ridiculous hunch of his, and that's when they made him "former" :)
The project ended in 2002 :p
If you want Linux to gain acceptance, you need to stop with the hyperbole and start accepting the truth. The truth is:
- There is no common way to install and remove software. - There is no stable base to write drivers (thus no hardware support) - There are too many distros with too many proprietary ways of doing things. Too many proprietary repositories, too many proprietary package systems, to many proprietary filesystem layouts.
To be honest, Linux doesn't need to gain acceptance. It already has it, you just don't see it. It will never be on the desktop pc of the common user but the desktop pc as we know it won't last long. On different devices users interact with linux without problems because the point is not the underlaying operating system but the interface you interact with. Android is an example, the average user's Sony camera is another, and so many others. And you can't even say there's not hardware support, as in facts, Linux runs on old and modern pc hardware, on cameras, on network equip and appliances of all kinds, on ip phones, on mobile phones, on 87% of supercomputers, on consoles, etc. Oh, and there are no proprietary things in linux distributions.