Comments on: Desktop for linux needs to be more intuitive and actually work http://ferrouswheel.me/2007/10/desktop-for-linux-needs-to-be-more-intuitive-and-actually-work/ watching the world turn. Sat, 10 Dec 2011 02:46:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Joel http://ferrouswheel.me/2007/10/desktop-for-linux-needs-to-be-more-intuitive-and-actually-work/comment-page-1/#comment-582 Joel Thu, 11 Oct 2007 06:09:13 +0000 http://blog.ferrouswheel.info/2007/10/desktop-for-linux-needs-to-be-more-intuitive-and-actually-work/#comment-582 Yeah, that makes sense. I personally don't have a problem with linux for server based stuff. I find it's a lot easier to get things running since most server products I use are designed for unix and getting them working with Windows can be a real bitch at times. I guess it depends on what server stuff you're doing... I like the idea of OSX too, but alas, I'm still poor. Yeah, that makes sense.

I personally don’t have a problem with linux for server based stuff. I find it’s a lot easier to get things running since most server products I use are designed for unix and getting them working with Windows can be a real bitch at times. I guess it depends on what server stuff you’re doing…

I like the idea of OSX too, but alas, I’m still poor.

]]> By: Andrew Brown http://ferrouswheel.me/2007/10/desktop-for-linux-needs-to-be-more-intuitive-and-actually-work/comment-page-1/#comment-581 Andrew Brown Thu, 11 Oct 2007 05:14:34 +0000 http://blog.ferrouswheel.info/2007/10/desktop-for-linux-needs-to-be-more-intuitive-and-actually-work/#comment-581 I personally just don't have the time. I used to really like to hear about advances, but the problem is, is that windows is one entity with thousands of full time people working on ONE product to work on anything, and linux has less people that are worse paid (if at all) and then they go and spread their efforts around many different ways of achieving the same thing. They'll never win the battle that way. XP is pretty good these days with SP2, everything works pretty damn well and easy now. All they need is to make it so windows update can check sites other than microsoft.com for drivers and it'd just be about perfect for ease of us, pretty close to a mac anyway. I haven't used linux/bsd for ages now. I had a bsd server, but it was a pain in the ass because I had to piss around doing different stuff to get it to work and then it barely did. unix is even losing out in the server market, now THAT makes me sad, it really does, but then again, if they're not offering a better alternative to windows (and "better" is from the perspective of the user, not what is theoretically better) then they're going to keep losing out. What can they do? Combine all their efforts for one and keep integrating wine more and more so that you can seamlessly run windows apps from linux like normal. Or just use OSX because it's better than windows AND has a unix core.. What more could you want other than it being cheaper? I personally just don’t have the time. I used to really like to hear about advances, but the problem is, is that windows is one entity with thousands of full time people working on ONE product to work on anything, and linux has less people that are worse paid (if at all) and then they go and spread their efforts around many different ways of achieving the same thing. They’ll never win the battle that way. XP is pretty good these days with SP2, everything works pretty damn well and easy now. All they need is to make it so windows update can check sites other than microsoft.com for drivers and it’d just be about perfect for ease of us, pretty close to a mac anyway.

I haven’t used linux/bsd for ages now. I had a bsd server, but it was a pain in the ass because I had to piss around doing different stuff to get it to work and then it barely did. unix is even losing out in the server market, now THAT makes me sad, it really does, but then again, if they’re not offering a better alternative to windows (and “better” is from the perspective of the user, not what is theoretically better) then they’re going to keep losing out.

What can they do? Combine all their efforts for one and keep integrating wine more and more so that you can seamlessly run windows apps from linux like normal. Or just use OSX because it’s better than windows AND has a unix core.. What more could you want other than it being cheaper?

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