Re: Why Microsoft must abandon Vista to save itself

"Roger Lascelles" <relATaantDOTcomDOTau> wrote in message
As long as your wife has you around, she can run any OS. But without your
expert help she must run a Mac or Windows machine, because sooner or later
she will end up at a command line or editing a config file - and that will
be the end of it.

Can you imagine grandma trying to use apt-get?

Every year or so I install linux on a desktop to see where things are (not
server - I manage a number of linux servers, and am familiar with that end
of things). So last week I installed Fedora 7. My impressions:

- Font rendering in gnome was *horrible*. After tweaking it a bit I got it
to be accecptable, but its still not as good as in Windows. It literally
gave me headaches.

- It was unstable. The system menu (basically, the 'start menu') locked up
3 times over the course of a couple hours, and stopped responding to clicks.
Basically making the system useless. I ended up having to put a terminal
link on the desktop so that I could do a reboot via the command line when
that happened (you could still click on things on the desktop). Evolution
looks like a decent email client, but it 'dissappeared' a number of times
whenever I selected anything from its menus. No error message or crash - it
just dissappeared.

- Finding a decent editor (not full blown IDE) with ssh support was tiring.
I eventually found one, komodo. Functional, but its no UltraEdit.

Basically, I didnt see a single compelling reason that would make me want to
switch. I did see enough to dissuade me again from doing so. I'm sorry, I
just dont see what the advantage is. Its certainly not more stable. In the
six years or so I've been using XP, I cant recall XP ever crashing for
non-hardware related reasons. Gnome managed it 3 times in a single
afternoon. I may end up giving Fedora w/KDE a shot, as in past installs I
had better luck with KDE (and am somewhat favorably disposed towards
konqueror), but my expectations are pretty low. The week prior to
installing FC7 I isntalled Ubuntu, but my results were basically the same
(also, I prefer a distro with an actual root user and our servers are redhat
so I wanted to run the same thing).


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