Re: Why I dumped Linux and Went Back to Windows.
From: Liam Slider (liam_at_NOSPAM.liamslider.com)
Date: 02/24/05
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Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 17:13:25 -0600
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 21:33:01 +0000, Tom Shelton wrote:
> In article <pan.2005.02.23.18.21.15.318891@NOSPAM.liamslider.com>, Liam
> Slider wrote:
>> On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 22:06:07 -0500, narrows_whitefish wrote:
>>
>>> Linux sounded great on paper as well as listening to posts in various
>>> newsgroups. So what could a person find wrong with a ton of free
>>> software?
>>> The short answer is it depends
>>> The long answer is, most of the free software needs a lot of work to
>>> become usable.
>>
>>
> <snip>
>
>
>>> Odd since all I did was plug the printer in with Windows XP and it
>>> worked.
>>
>> This is an outright lie, after all...Windows XP requires drivers for
>> hardware too.
>>
>>
> Yes, windows xp requires drivers - but many drivers are built in. For
> instance, my HP932c. I plug it into XP - bing, it just works. I'm not
> saying this isn't the case for Linux as well, I'm just pointing out you
> don't always have to install something for them to "just work" under
> windows.
I have never heard of hardware for Windows that you didn't need to install
drivers for first.
Except *maybe* USB.
>
>>> How about web browsing?
>>> I used konqueror which I found out sucks.
>>
>> Another lie. Konqueror is very feature rich, and if you are running
>> KDE, it's no system hog, running light on the resources and is very
>> peppy. That's why Apple chose it to base their Safari web browser on.
>>
>>
> I personally don't like Konq all that much. It's great for browsing man
> pages and stuff - but I prefer firefox.
Matter of preferences I suppose.
>>> So I tried firefox. I quickly discovered that browsing was so slow it
>>> was pathetic. A little research showed I needed to turn off IPV6.
>>
>> Firefox, while not as peppy as Konqueror, is certainly a nice web
>> browser, and while light on features, they are easy to add-on. And
>> while I used it I certainly didn't find that *browsing* was slow.
>>
>>
> It seems fine for me on Gentoo. Of course, I disabled IPV6 on
> everything. I have no use for it.
>
>
>>> Funny, I didn't have to do that with Windows. Same firefox and it
>>> works great with Windows.
>>
>> Uh, yeah, sure.
>>
>>
> Liam - I know you aren't going to believe this. I'm sure you'll call me
> a liar - but I'm going to say it anyway... Firefox works much, much
> better on XP then it does on Linux - at least in my experience.
I can't possibly imagine how.
>
>>> I also noticed that I could not play CD's until I created a /mnt
>>> directory in which xmms would mount my audio cds.
>>
>> Funny how I've never had to do that. Ever. I've never once had to
>> *mount* an audio CD to play it.
>>
>>
> I didn't have to create the mount point either, mostly because I already
> had created a /mnt/cdrom for other uses. But, I did have to tell xmms
> about it. I'm on Gentoo, so I expect this sort of thing - but I would
> immagine that SuSE would set this up in the default installation?
Likely, did on my older version of SuSE before I switched back to
Mandrake. And on Mandrake I never had any problem with audio. Just put
them in, and they work. DVD works similarly, didn't have to tinker with
mountpoints or other garbage, just put them in and they work.
> <snip>
>
>>> I tried Openoffice, which seems to take an eternity to load even on a
>>> P4 machine.
>>> What a dog!!
>>> It seems to work ok once it loads.
>>
>> Certainly not slow here, but then Open Office is now considered tightly
>> integrated into GNOME, and I run GNOME....so it has much more pep than
>> if I was running KDE as my DE.
>>
>>
> Hmmm... It doesn't seem to load any faster in Gnome for me - that's why
> for general word processing I've switched to Abiword. OO is just to
> slow - I still use it to open office documents on Linux though. Besides,
> I thought OO2 was going to integrate into both KDE and Gnome natively.
Hmmm, maybe the newer OO is just faster than the old one I was using
before...but it certainly seems to work better in GNOME than KDE though.
Maybe it's my imagination.
> By the way... Do you really like Gnome?
Yeah. I was using SuSE 8.2 (which didn't include GNOME and I wasn't going
to go to the hassle, especially given my prior experience) before
switching back to Mandrake which I had used before, and my experience on
Mandrake had been entirely pre-2.0 GNOME. Coming back to Mandrake (10.1) I
gave it a try and....it's nice.
> Have you tried xfce4? Why do
> you choose Gnome over something like xfce? I'm just curious.
Mainly tried it out again because it was included in Mandrake 10.1 and
when I saw it I instantly though, "woah, this looks rather Mac like..."
And the more I've played around with it the more I like it. It's very
polished, very smooth.
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