I have used Thunderbird for mail and newsgroups since 0.1. I loved the mail program however the newsgroups reader was inconvenient. The password manager had an annoying bug where it would ask for the user name/password for every newsgroup when the connection times out even though I checked the save username/password option. And if I left my computer on during the night, the next day I will be greated with thousands of these message boxes, that it was easier to kill the program than click on all of them. I think a lot of people voted for this bug in 0.2, and 0.3 but it was not fixed so I gave up on Thunderbird.
I agree that stability and features are important for server applications, however for desktop applications, usability is much more important, especially for people not comfortable using computers. Think your older parents, aunts, relatives,..etc. All they want to do is send emails, write documents, and browse the internet. A Windows environment provides that quite easily: out of the box OS, no logins on inferior versions of windows, good internet browsers, mail clients, and office software. Of course they pay a ton of money more for those than an open-source user (Linux, FreeBSD,...), but they get peace of mind.
It is not an easy task for an average user to set up printing on Linux when you have a USB printer, or to add dictionaries because a distribution of OpenOffice forgot to include them.
Hopefully linux will catchup on these issues soon, and then average users can shift to a Linux based desktop.
Is this by any chance the signal 11 problem, cause I seem to be getting those only under Linux but not under Windows.
Which kernel version was it fixed in?
Slashdot Mirror
Does anyone know if it has been fixed in 0.4?
Thanks
I agree that stability and features are important for server applications, however for desktop applications, usability is much more important, especially for people not comfortable using computers. Think your older parents, aunts, relatives, ..etc. All they want to do is send emails, write documents, and browse the internet. A Windows environment provides that quite easily: out of the box OS, no logins on inferior versions of windows, good internet browsers, mail clients, and office software. Of course they pay a ton of money more for those than an open-source user (Linux, FreeBSD,...), but they get peace of mind.
It is not an easy task for an average user to set up printing on Linux when you have a USB printer, or to add dictionaries because a distribution of OpenOffice forgot to include them.
Hopefully linux will catchup on these issues soon, and then average users can shift to a Linux based desktop.
Is this by any chance the signal 11 problem, cause I seem to be getting those only under Linux but not under Windows. Which kernel version was it fixed in?