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Re: Anyone else going to switch to Fedora?
de Al Klein 04/08/2006 05:46
On Sat, 08 Apr 2006 14:31:54 +0100, Mark Carter <me@privacy.net>
wrote:
>Al Klein wrote:
>>>El Gee <mcwtlg.yourhat@yourhat.gmail.com> wrote in
>>>news:Xns979E8F1F5429Dmcwtlgyourhatyourhat@15.8.40.106:
>>>I'm not considering changing till we see Vista.
>> Veni, vidi, yawni. I came, I saw, I yawned.
>Aargh, don't get me started ;). One of the lasses in our office
>commented that one of the problems with XP was that it was essentially
>beta-quality software, for which MS subsequently issued patches.
Yes, and? :)
>With Vista, it very much sounds like it's deja vu all over again. Some
>testers have mentioned stability problems.
No, it's VERY stable. The crashes are a design feature. It only
crashes randomly.
>Overcomplicated, overly resource-intensive, underdone.
And those are the good parts.
>You know, by now, we should have a perfect Operating System. Microsoft
>should have taken Windows 95, cleaned up the bits which were obviously
>crap, and added support for new hardware. Fixed some bugs, and did some
>/selective/ rewrites of the hairier bits.
Oh, you thought their goal was to produce a stable OS? Hah, hah. What
a kidder.
Is Gates getting richer every year? Then where's the problem?
> But they keep re-engineering everything, and cramming in shite like .Net.
Would you spend $300 on VB SP7 because you could name 100 more colors?
Or for the Handles word? A 1962 Chevy with a new raccoon tail on the
antenna is still a used car. Redesign the fenders, make the muffler
fatter and THEN come up with a new color and you can sell a new car.
85 MPG? Nah, people LIKE internal combustion engines, gasoline and
mortgaging the house and kids to drive to the store.
>Good tip for OP: install KDE, otherwise you'll only have users whining
>endlessly about how complicated Linux is, where's my email, I like
>Firefox on my taskbar, how do I tie my shoelaces. You'll thank me for it
>later.
That's where we part company. Winslow is perfectly good for the "I
don't have an any key" end-abuser. "The best software is the one
you're most productive using" holds here. My heavy duty stuff runs on
linux (or an Alpha for the slightly heavier iron), but the end user
sees XP (or 2k as we bring the new boxes with XP on line) and sees the
same buttons in the same place on all the in-house written apps. Most
people have no idea how things work, and don't want to know - as long
as they DO work But they're comfortable sitting in this chair, having
lunch at that sandwich shop and using a computer with Windows on it.
As long as the letters get written and the database update program
runs, who needs linux on those boxes?
YM probably DOES V. :)