Will this be a must to use Ubuntu or will the gnome/unity be an option still?
Plus, this type or speak to find a command's like a google search, you type and results start to show up, isn't it?
Broken drivers: there aren't many needed these days. I use everything on Ubuntu with no need to install anything. Unless I buy Apple products, which have less complicated and inexpensive alternatives.
Buggy applications: you can choose from many apps to do the same thing, in Windows, you get a few if not one and if it's buggy, then you are out of luck.
Missing parts: I left Windows 6 years ago and actually have problems when using Windows at work, it's not intuitive.
Stable desktop env: just don't use Unity and that's it. Keep it simple.
Just as a footnote, closed source OSs don't come with everything. You have to install office, burner apps, video apps, some drivers too, and the most resource-friendly antivirus. I usually install Mint or Ubuntu and all comes with it. No further installations only if a particular app is needed. That's true out of the box functionality mate.
I have read a lot of good things and things i don't see as real world examples. Let me explain myself.
Windows might be out of the box with a nice GUI, but it comes with basically nothing. You have to purchase almost every application. Linux doesn't. Another point i want to make strong, is that i don't think Linux isn't going to be that much of a difference for an end user who can't change screen resolution or understand how folder hierarchy works. I think Windows just gets to these dummies first than Linux, given the fact that Windows is vastly spread over the world, Linux is kinda more for the geeks, like some one expressed here. So they just start working with Windows in their unusual way of thinking. Let me ask you something. If you tell a child to use something, and let him grow with it, would he want to change it later just because some stupid reason? Or swap it for something else as easy as changing your clothes? I don't think so. Linux i used less because it's not getting there to people before Windows. Some of us just hate malfunctioning and paid software, so we swap over to our OSS.
I am most definitely not a Linux expert, and somehow i manage to go around doing things to get what i want out of my Linux system. That thing that hardware is hard to install and stuff, that's not true, at least not to me. Some windows users can't install a freaking video or sound card, they ask some one to do it for them. We are talking about the same thing, the difference is that you use a console, not a wizard.
You wrote there that your IT manager decided to convert everything to Java to speed up development times, so, why don't you ask him how he thinks this is going to happen? What are the advantages and tools that Java (i'm sure it does) has that makes it better than C++ to speed up develepment? Does this sound like something you would ask your boss? I really think so.
Having read this, i have to totally disagree based on personal experience. I have used Linux for 2 years straight now, and i have run into small stepbacks on my way with it. But nothing like the problems i have encountered when trying to use windows again. I am recently studying Cisco and enroled in an online course that requires shockwave, not available for Linux. So, i, very sadly, had to get windows running on a machine. I swear, it requires much more hardware capabilities than Linux, takes up more time to fix than to be able to work with it, you pay to get an OS that people hate and try to hack one way or another. I just can't believe people choose to use windows out of mental laziness or ignorance.
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Well said man, why fix it if it's not broken
Will this be a must to use Ubuntu or will the gnome/unity be an option still? Plus, this type or speak to find a command's like a google search, you type and results start to show up, isn't it?
Broken drivers: there aren't many needed these days. I use everything on Ubuntu with no need to install anything. Unless I buy Apple products, which have less complicated and inexpensive alternatives. Buggy applications: you can choose from many apps to do the same thing, in Windows, you get a few if not one and if it's buggy, then you are out of luck. Missing parts: I left Windows 6 years ago and actually have problems when using Windows at work, it's not intuitive. Stable desktop env: just don't use Unity and that's it. Keep it simple. Just as a footnote, closed source OSs don't come with everything. You have to install office, burner apps, video apps, some drivers too, and the most resource-friendly antivirus. I usually install Mint or Ubuntu and all comes with it. No further installations only if a particular app is needed. That's true out of the box functionality mate.
Don't know if it has been mentioned before, but using ctrl+r let's you browse your command history as you type in part of the entire command.
I have read a lot of good things and things i don't see as real world examples. Let me explain myself. Windows might be out of the box with a nice GUI, but it comes with basically nothing. You have to purchase almost every application. Linux doesn't. Another point i want to make strong, is that i don't think Linux isn't going to be that much of a difference for an end user who can't change screen resolution or understand how folder hierarchy works. I think Windows just gets to these dummies first than Linux, given the fact that Windows is vastly spread over the world, Linux is kinda more for the geeks, like some one expressed here. So they just start working with Windows in their unusual way of thinking. Let me ask you something. If you tell a child to use something, and let him grow with it, would he want to change it later just because some stupid reason? Or swap it for something else as easy as changing your clothes? I don't think so. Linux i used less because it's not getting there to people before Windows. Some of us just hate malfunctioning and paid software, so we swap over to our OSS. I am most definitely not a Linux expert, and somehow i manage to go around doing things to get what i want out of my Linux system. That thing that hardware is hard to install and stuff, that's not true, at least not to me. Some windows users can't install a freaking video or sound card, they ask some one to do it for them. We are talking about the same thing, the difference is that you use a console, not a wizard.
You wrote there that your IT manager decided to convert everything to Java to speed up development times, so, why don't you ask him how he thinks this is going to happen? What are the advantages and tools that Java (i'm sure it does) has that makes it better than C++ to speed up develepment? Does this sound like something you would ask your boss? I really think so.
Having read this, i have to totally disagree based on personal experience. I have used Linux for 2 years straight now, and i have run into small stepbacks on my way with it. But nothing like the problems i have encountered when trying to use windows again. I am recently studying Cisco and enroled in an online course that requires shockwave, not available for Linux. So, i, very sadly, had to get windows running on a machine. I swear, it requires much more hardware capabilities than Linux, takes up more time to fix than to be able to work with it, you pay to get an OS that people hate and try to hack one way or another. I just can't believe people choose to use windows out of mental laziness or ignorance.