but getting them to install is a whole different matter. One tends to spend more time getting Linux to work, than doing work with it. And I am typing this on a machine running the latest & greatest Linux incarnation, Ubuntu. In the last two days it has completely locked up this machine twice in Firefox, requiring a cold reboot each time. And I love hearing the Linux zealots brag about how they've had heavily loaded servers running for three years without a crash. Yea right!
And let's see now, the laptop this is running on is stuck at 800x600 without going in and manually doing major surgery on config files. The fonts look terrible, all ragged and torn on different parts of the screen. Opera will not install without going in and doing major surgery. There are no printer drivers for the printer I have hanging off the network, which has been out for a year and is a very common one sold at the big box stores.
The promise of Linux is just that a promise, not a reality. There does not exit even a rudimentary software installer, though, those at Autopackage are making an attempt. But this should have all been dealt with years ago. Heck from DOS 1.0 forward installing software has been an integral, and for the most part trivial event on MS's operating systems. Linux is what happens when an operating system is designed by a committee.
Can I make Linux work? Probably, I write code in embedded 'C' for a living, I've compiled a few hundred thousand lines of code over the years. But why? I do that at work, and don't want to do that at home.
Linux is being touted by the faithful as the great Gates slayer, the OS that will bring MS to it's knees. I'd personally like to see that, but Linux is certainly not up to the task. Maybe Big Steve with his new VidePod will be able to convince more than just graphic artists to buy his machines.
Can you tell you struck a nerve?
HH
BarnacleBill
