I'm currently lying in bed, using my (powernowd) laptop, my usb bluetooth headphones, and my usb laser mouse, as well as posting this comment over my wifi connection -- all of which worked without any linux voodoo whatsoever. The only thing that required anything custom was getting the ati mobile video card working (with 3d accelertion -- worked just fine out of the box), which required a grand total of 5 minutes and a how-to on wiki.ubuntu.com . Doing the same thing in Windows required a grand total of 4 different driver CDs, which installed 3 different system tray icons and god knows how many background processes.
I'm not saying that Ubuntu is perfect, but it's getting there, and if something doesn't work out of the box, a quick search on the wiki or the forums makes it do so. And guess what? It might require a little reading. But I never claimed that your grandmother could install Ubuntu; I claimed that most people "in the know" who don't enjoy buttering their little cornholes will have switched to an operating system made by a company who's not completely out of touch with the real world.
That's probably because people in the know will have switched operating systems by then. Of all the reasons I've given people to switch to Ubuntu from windows, the biggest has been that if they don't stop relying on windows now, they're gonna get stuck with Vista and its evil, evil ways. Sure, you can choose to not deal with any of this and just stick with windows xp forever... except that support for XP runs out just a few months after Vista comes out. Can you say numerous 0 day ie exploits that never get patched?
In the next version of RedHat, users without a DuoCore Intel processor will be unable to open more than 2 tabs in firefox due to their inferior hardware.
OpenOffice support for.doc and.ppt (especially.ppt) is flaky at best, but it's not OO's fault that there's 5 or 6 different versions of the format.
OpenOffice files are the xml, css, and embedded files for the document, all TARed together. xml, css, and tar aren't going away anytime soon; try opening DACeasy files these days.
Do Intel and and Redhat think that teaming up will make up for them being second choice? Maybe only intel chips will be able to run Firefox or something.
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I'm currently lying in bed, using my (powernowd) laptop, my usb bluetooth headphones, and my usb laser mouse, as well as posting this comment over my wifi connection -- all of which worked without any linux voodoo whatsoever. The only thing that required anything custom was getting the ati mobile video card working (with 3d accelertion -- worked just fine out of the box), which required a grand total of 5 minutes and a how-to on wiki.ubuntu.com . Doing the same thing in Windows required a grand total of 4 different driver CDs, which installed 3 different system tray icons and god knows how many background processes. I'm not saying that Ubuntu is perfect, but it's getting there, and if something doesn't work out of the box, a quick search on the wiki or the forums makes it do so. And guess what? It might require a little reading. But I never claimed that your grandmother could install Ubuntu; I claimed that most people "in the know" who don't enjoy buttering their little cornholes will have switched to an operating system made by a company who's not completely out of touch with the real world.
That's probably because people in the know will have switched operating systems by then. Of all the reasons I've given people to switch to Ubuntu from windows, the biggest has been that if they don't stop relying on windows now, they're gonna get stuck with Vista and its evil, evil ways. Sure, you can choose to not deal with any of this and just stick with windows xp forever ... except that support for XP runs out just a few months after Vista comes out. Can you say numerous 0 day ie exploits that never get patched?
Google wins in any market they bother to enter. Paypal wants to ban Google Checkout? I expect Google Auctions within the year.
It took off, it didn't explode ... two out of three aint bad, right?
Luckily, robots can spell Switzerland correctly.
but how fast can it run from the cops?
In the next version of RedHat, users without a DuoCore Intel processor will be unable to open more than 2 tabs in firefox due to their inferior hardware.
OpenOffice support for .doc and .ppt (especially .ppt) is flaky at best, but it's not OO's fault that there's 5 or 6 different versions of the format.
OpenOffice files are the xml, css, and embedded files for the document, all TARed together. xml, css, and tar aren't going away anytime soon; try opening DACeasy files these days.
Do Intel and and Redhat think that teaming up will make up for them being second choice? Maybe only intel chips will be able to run Firefox or something.