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| DATE | 2008-03-28 |
| FROM | From: "Ronny Abraham"
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| SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Re: Linux ready for the home desktop?
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I think what it comes down to commercial quality apps being available.
If Adobe CS3 was available for Linux, I would probably chuck the Mac
part of my dual boot.
Then again, if Adobe did that, it would effectively kill the Gimp
project. So I suppose it's the nature of trade-offs. Same thing with
Quicken and GunCash.
-ron
On Mar 28, 2008, at 8:38 AM, Mark Simko wrote:
It's been true for eons that if you repeat an untruth often enough and
long enough, and it goes unchallenged, that it becomes the accepted
truth. I think the Linux desktop is affected by just such an altered
reality.
I've been using a Linux desktop for well over a year, and it is now also
my favored OS on dual boot devices such as my laptops.
The Linux desktop is:
Faster
Has more features
Is more reliable
Requires much less maintenance
Stays current with much less effort
Costs less to have and maintain
Takes much less time to maintain
I wish to point out that Vista, even after being available commercially
for a year, is still not ready for the desktop. That the only other
desktop OS available from M$ is sunsetting on its availability is going
to be very difficult to those that are standardized on M$ products. I
think we'll begin to see a significant migration to Linux, although I
see an even greater migration to Mac, which has already begun.
That said, Linux could benefit from some work being done on certain
things. For instance, there is a great need for a commercial grade
accounting program for Linux. GnuCash needs much more work, and the port
to Postgres needs polishing. Basing GnuCash on XML is a problem on many
levels. GnuCash also needs to have a built in year end closing, the
ability to create customer statements, and the ability to see network
drives.
Even with the few warts, Linux is much better than what M$ has to offer
right now. Linuxland should be more attractive to commercial entities
than it is. Right now, in M$land, if you have a successful product, M$
will either buy you out and perhaps kill the product, or try to crush
you by giving away an inferior imitation with it's next service pack.
Perhaps wider adoption of Linux will make it more attractive to the
commercial entities.
signing off
(spell and grammar checked by yours truly)
Mark
On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 06:05 -0400, Michael L. Richardson wrote:
Please stop saying that Linux is not ready for the desktop. 1. Every
time you say it,it turns people off from GNU/Linux OS's. 2. If you wait
for GNU/Linux OS's to be perfect they never will be. 3. Are there any
OS's out there that don't have problems?
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Mark Simko wrote:
That is one reason why Linux is more ready than Windoze.
On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 12:55 -0400, Ruben Safir wrote:
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 06:31:55AM -0400, Scott Ehrlich wrote:
I introduced my parents to Linux [Ubuntu Gutsy] at their place, and they
tried it for a few days. It was still too new for them, so they opted
back for Windows.
I was considering re-introducing it to them at some other point, until a
few days later, my Linux box (Ubuntu) presented me with a reminder why
Windows and Mac are still desktop-ready, but Linux isn't - the obligatory
filesystem check if the machine has been rebooted at least 30 times.
This leads me to the question of can this check be turned off? I know it
is a kernel function, and not distro-based. If it can be turned off, what
are the consequences?
How do the [net/free/open]BSD families handle checks, since their kernels
are different, I think.
Thanks for feedback.
If GNU/Linux is not ready for the desktop, what else can a person use?
Seems to me nothing else is better, or even usable.
Ruben
Scott
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