guess just like Adobe Photoshop vs. Gimp right? Adobe is just grandfathered in because it was the best available at the time right?
The GIMP does everything I need but I don't profess it as a Photoshop replacement, atleast not until CMYK support is better.
People want the easiest and Windows is the easiest because everyone else has it.
Extremely easy to install programs
RedCarpet, apt, etc all handle that for you. If you're not using them it's not my fault.
Sure is easy in every version of Windows since 95.
No it's not, I know many people who could never install Windows or Linux. And this argument is irrelevant because Windows comes preinstalled so they never have to try. As Linux becomes more popular it'll be easier to get pre-installed Linux boxes too, until then they'll have to rely on having someone around who can help them just as they would with Windows.
Grandfathers are usually pretty wise. Atleast mine are. Perhaps this OS made it to being a grandfather for a reason : it survived. It still takes alot to make it and keep on growing such as Microsoft. Look at Apple. You would be a moron (well, actually I know you think you're not but you are) to ignore the true facts.
Huh? Linux is just as old as NT (the only good line of Windows) and it's built on older ideas, your argument is backwards.
Why oh why then, are all the programs so unresponsive feeling? Nawww, it couldn't be Linux. I guess you're just blinded with denial. Little bit of help will cure that hopefully
I would blame you before the software, all my systems are plenty snappy.
Most Windows apps are installed from CD .... thats a new concept for you I suppose?
It's not new, but it is really annoying. Even for the windows apps we use at work we put the media on the network because it's a PITA to carry around and keep track of CDs.
I really don't see how it hurts to have what you need all in one place. I guess disorganization is a key player in your life.
Everything I need is in one central place and is installable via 1 command. And to top it off it's all free, much simpler than having to drive to BestBuy or search Tucows for the shareware with the least limitations.
YaSt2 is great, a step up. Even though my initial SUSE9 install forgot the Java dependency needed by OpenOffice, as well as when trying to get XINE and a host of other little apps installed. Still a dependency chase although getting much better admittedly, still FAR from acceptable for the average user.
Sounds like either SuSe needs a little work or you screwed it up somehow. I have never had apt 'forget' a dependency and just about everything 'just works' for me.
It seems in Linux you spend as much time getting the programs you need to run to do work running, as you do actually DOING work
What seems and what is real are seperate things, I spend almost no time installing or setting up things. Even semi-complicated things like Apache+SSL are simple and work out of the box suitably for most people. I'm sorry if all this gives you so much trouble.
Which brings me to another point .... CROSSOVER .... why does it take so long to get any half decent plugins without ruquiring an emulator to run them?
Firstly, wine is not an emulator. Second do you have any idea how big the Win32 API is? Would you like the task of trying to implement, bug for bug, an API that's been in development for over a decade and which has very little documentation?
Linux is just fine for somebody who doesn't mind not being on the bleeding edge of technology, ease of use, support, and kicking back and relaxing with some good old entertainment
Not on the bleeding edge? I don't claim to want to beta test anything but I have a DVD-+RW drive that works, a GF4 that has full 3D support, all my USB devices work, I have SCSI160 and ATA-133 drives. What am I missing?
Oh wait, Linux has some FPS games and Tuxracer and a million other 'shareware' 1.44mb floppy quality games ... hahahaha. Get real man, you can't really be serious?
If games are all I'm missing I'm happy as is. I don't play Tuxracer, only q3 once in a while but I will be playing DoomIII when it's released. The only game I wish was ported that wasn't is Worms World Party, but I only play that at work and it's easy to grab a spare machine for that. All the games I've seen lately pretty much suck or are just rehashes of older games, nothing has compelled me to install Windows in years.
its funny how 4 of my buddies are all graduates of the Uni. of Waterloo (for those who don't know, its a very reputable University in Canada especially in terms of computer science degrees),
Ah, you're canadian. That says a lot.
who ALL program and ALL have no problem identifying Windows -as well as only using- as the far better OS
My company has a few departments that sell software and I can tell you from experience that most of the developers havn't a clue how to use the OS they're programming for. Most of the time they just know the spec they're programming to and don't pay attention to anything else, the underlying OS is irrelevant.
And on top of that one of our bigger departments is porting their software to Linux because of customer demand, they don't want to pay the prices for things like Oracle, commercial Unix, WebLogic or Windows even in certain circumstances. Infact all of our departments have begun looking at Linux for different things, some more than others.
You don't lose much with Linux when you don't DO much to begin with other than fart around with computers, or require a cheap license free server.
If you consider making a living off of them 'farting around' I guess that would be accurate.
Dude, you're again full of it. I have an SB Audigy, and the OSS drivers sound like garbage comapred to OSS
Care to form a sentence that makes sense?
Why on earth would the 2.6 kernel include built-in ALSA support, and not to mention the well-documented move towards ALSA?
I believe the API is cleaner, but it's also a bigger PITA to configure. Also a nice little bug is that if I have a recording program open using the mic and try to play q3, q3 blocks waiting for the device to become freed with ALSA but with OSS it all 'just works'. I'm sure I'll move to ALSA eventually, but OSS will be in the kernel for atleast 2.6 so I'm in no hurry. Once again Linux gives me a choice in the matter.
I think you forgot about permissions, low-level security and the like that NTFS offers.
No, I just left it out because they all support it so I figured it was irrelvant. ACLs have been available on Linux for years, but most people don't care because they're only necessary in corner cases and they tend to cause extra management overhead.
You could argue that the fragmentation/journalism algorithms in ResierFS/ext3 are superior; but no fragmentation algorithmn is perfect which is why you need to defrag your disk perhaps once a year or so.
I use XFS and I have never defragged any of the filesystems.
My root filesystem:
xfs_db -r -c frag /dev/sda5
actual 306634, ideal 282676, fragmentation factor 7.81%
Not exactly terrible for 3+ years of use, eh?
And on top of that defragmenting a filesystem is largely irrlevant, large sequential accesses to files are very uncommon and the only people it really matters for are doing things like video or audio processing.
Thats the only area I can see that is 'superior' to NTFS.
NTFS is one of the things MS has doing for them, seems appropriate that they originally licensed it from someone else.
They still can't figure out how to properly write to NTFS without botching it sometimes even with Kernel 2.6 Microsoft must be doing something right.
MS is doing something right but not documenting their technology? I guess things like that coming from you shouldn't surprise me any more.
I still don't understand what you mean by 'more advanced', all your arguments talk about software support but how does that constitute advancement?