Sorry, that penguin peckerwood lost me right there.
Insults quickly establish that you're punching from a losing position.
Linux is the best solution for midrange java systems. The zLinux image on mainframe is an excellent solution. WRT desktops... I personally love the redhat vm I use at work and my 7 year old loves his linux mint system, but my wife does not appreciate it and prefers her windows laptop. Linux will continue to dominate in the server space but not so sure about widespread desktop acceptance.
It’s still too much of a pain to use.
I have a machine with Ubuntu only because I lost my XP CD.
It boots up fast, but Chrome stutters badly when playing videos, and the whole system literally goes haywire at random times dissolving the graphics onscreen into a bunch of gibberish causing me to have to reboot.
I’m not even going to bother with a help forum as far too many instructions involve editing some weird thing like my “X.org” file.
No thanks.
“The Linux desktop has been superior since its early days”
I *like* Linux. I *use* Linux at work. That statement is *just not true*. That is pure Linux fanboy-ism...
Thanks for the post.
Linux is great, have used it since around 1997-1998.
XFCE is a real winner for a friendly yet very efficient and fast window manager. I have use it since 2002.
I still find myself back at a terminal screen, manually editing Samba and Cups printer files. Linux desktop is not fully functional yet. I like Linux, but the average user is not ready to do this sort of work just to share a printer.
What is the fake interop of Brand X? And what are the trade offs?
Well if it works for you great if not leave it alone is what I tell people. The backbone of the net what does it run on ReadHat centos an Oracle mainly and when they shoot them rockets in the air to travel to Mars Pluto Saturn do you think they trust Windows or Mac LMAO>> Mac now I know about Mac OS it is nothing but BSD with a modified kernel all reference to BSD and the BSD license is stripped out, dont belive it open the code in a hex editor and take and good gander at it!!
When I have work to do, I use Windows, because that's what work uses.
When I am surfing the web or doing personal things, I use Ubuntu.
Keeps everything separate and if I pick up some security risk while surfing the web, it doesn't affect my Windows installation.
Linux vs Windows is apples and oranges.
Windows has all the hardware support from the manufacturers and massive monopoly position that it can use to keep out opposition,whereas Linux is for more freedom-orientated individuals who want to customize their stuff.
The average windows and the average Linux user will both be pretty hopeless,but the experienced Linux user is a different species of computer animal than the experienced Windows user.
There is, truly, only one shortcoming with Linux/Ubuntu. It’s the one common complaint I have always gotten, and still get...
How do I get a #%)&%#!!! printer to work? LOL Everything else always works as advertised.
The average home PC user doesn’t need, want or even know what any of that partial list of 31 Linux capabilities are.
Linux is a fine industrial operating system, but is not even close to suitable for the average PC user. When an average person goes to the grocery store, they hop in their Civic or Chevy sedan; they don’t hop in an 18-wheeler tractor trailer truck, particularly one built by a hoard of volunteer mechanics in their spare time.
Linux is here to stay - it’s a fact of life. All the haters and the doubters can hate and doubt all they want but it’s a significant portion of the computing infrastructure. If someone prefers Windows or Mac to Linux then great - have at it - as with most things in life it’s all about a series of tradeoffs.
One truism however is that free as in beer and free as in speech is a compelling value proposition for many, many applications - and the the other two OS’s will never ever match that.