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Weblog:   A Windows Die-Hard Confronts Linux
Subject:   I can't believe!
Date:   2004-07-21 15:03:08
From:   AndyALS
Look, the guy just gives his personal experience and point of view, no big deal. What kind of Windows expert he is? Absolutely irrelevant, so the question is: can he as an independent guy have a personal picture about Linux, about Windows or anything else? I think he can. And some of you guys just can’t learn once and for all that there is no ULTIMATE TRUTH, no one is in a possession of the ultimate truth!!! Yes please, just grow up, it is so f* easy but some of you never going to learn it how. Please don’t waste your time posting some crap about my message, because it is not worth of your time. I used over a dozen OS in my life, including some of very rare (most of you guys never even heard about some of that OS), and I have written hundreds of thousands lines of code in dozens of languages, right now I mostly develop for Windows / .NET, but also have much development in Java and C++ on Solaris and Linux. So I know what I am talking about. Linux is GREAT as an internet server, great in networking as any UNIX (not as good as Solaris but OK). But when you considering desktop, it is light years behind Windows XP, and in a fact the only OS close to Windows in the desktop arena is MacOS X.


Thank you,
Andy


Never forget, no one own the ULTIMATE TRUTH! And that includes you and me too.
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  • I can't believe!
    2004-07-21 19:38:06  RichieOR [Reply | View]

    Nice effort ULTIMATE TRUTH guy. But you kind of blew yourself out of the water with the last line of the body. Firstly Windows is the OS almost like MacOS X. Yes I am sure someone is going to complain. But the truth is that all desktops with small variations are 90% Xerox stuff with nice pictures. Added to which from a ease of use and intuitiveness aspect this user must accept that the Mac's UI leads the way, especially for new users. I don't have a mac as I can't afford the huge price, but they are the leaders in UI as for the Linux options, they are behind the 8 ball so to speak. There saving grace is they are developing faster and so have great potential.
    • I can't believe!
      2004-07-21 20:09:09  AndyALS [Reply | View]

      I think your reply had sense, but I must to tell you, that when I compared Windows and Mac OS X in a desktop arena, I am not pointed to the UI, but as an overall desktop systems, measured what can you do on both platform, what powerful professional desktop applications you have etc. (like Adobe, Corel, AutoCAD, Macromedia, Discreet… etc. The only usable desktop applications for Linux are varieties of office suites and some rare stuff like Maya, but you must admit, that those suites are much less powerful than MS Office 2003.
      Anyway Linux is a GREAT platform (especially for server roles), so as Windows are, and I think we can and have to use both platforms in relation to the best possible solution for a given problem.
  • I can't believe!
    2004-07-21 16:15:17  theBlueSmokeBand [Reply | View]

    Andy will be back to see who responded to his post.

    That is an ULTIMATE TRUTH ;)
    • I can't believe!
      2004-07-21 21:24:52  pdmackenzie [Reply | View]

      I hate to say it but theBlueSmokeBand is right about mostly everything. Linux on the desktop won't happen before the paradigm changes. Better to think about the next generation of computers-- the micro edition.

      I use windows at work as a web developer and I have (finally) been windows free for almost 2 years now at home. But make no mistake! The problems I have using linux productively (Mandrake 92) can be infuriating at times, and I cannot envision the time when corporate people that slightly dislike using computers in the first place will ever start using one where they ever, ever, have to call up the command line.

      Typically, even a requirement to make temporary changes to their 'hosts' file generates a *firestorm* of email complaints.

      doug
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