Re: Why Microsoft must abandon Vista to save itself

"Paul Nichols [TeamB]" <paul@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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GrandmasterB wrote:
"Roger Lascelles" <relATaantDOTcomDOTau> wrote in message
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:
Fedora, IMHO, is the one of the worst Examples of Desktop Linux I have
seen. I NEVER would recommend anyone using Fedora as a Desktop OS. Server
wise, it is fine.

Yeah, I know. I was going to add to my post how I now expected a bunch of
"but have you tried the latest ... distro?" posts. I dont have time to try
them all. I tried two - FC7 (because our servers run Fedora) and Ubuntu
(because most of the linux requests I've received were from people using
it). Neither gave me the out-of-body experience that people claim to get
when they use them.

I know people will argue with me. but that is my experience with Newbies.
Linux pros can use what they want to make it what they want. That is the
beauty of Linux.

And this is the point. I hear alot about how great linux is, but have yet
to see an actual, substantive reason to use it on the desktop. What
concrete advantage does it have over WinXP? Its certainly not more stable.
XP's never crashed on me for anything other than hardware reasons
(motherboard shorts, etc), so I dont know how I get more stable than 'never
crashes'. One of my development machines is on 24/7, and runs for months at
a time, only rebooting when I want to boot into linux or when the power goes
out (and ups fails). Is linux More secure? Thats the rumor, sure, but
since I've never had a security problem under XP, again, I have no way to
measure 'more secure'. The program selection on linux is obviously far
smaller than windows, and since most of that is open source most apps are
incomplete and poorly documented. And dont even get me started on that
bilge called Open Office. So other than being able to show off to my
friends about how cool I am because I use linux, why should I want to use
it?

Dont get me wrong - the reason I've been looking at it again is because I
want to build/port software for it (and Macs) to meet the requests of my
customers. But despite all the hype, there's a reason Windows is still the
dominent platform - its simply better at more things than is any alternative
OS. And I dont see that changing anytime soon.



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