Re: Why Linux is not getting poplular in Desktop in any Corporate world?
From: Aragorn (stryder_at_telenet.invalid)
Date: 08/17/05
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Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 00:34:30 GMT
On Tuesday 16 August 2005 21:39, bison@ecol.spam stood up and spoke the
following words to the masses...:
> I've just been trying to get Mandrake running for an entire week, and
> have failed. It is the biggest load of crap.
Mandriva is not the best possible distribution on the block, but it's a
fairly good one. It's far from being crap.
> On XP it would be a ten minute job (or less) to install the builtin
> wifi card with WPA.
Because the vendor of the WiFi card supplies you with proprietary
drivers and a program to install them with. Contact the manufacturer
of your WiFi card and ask them to supply drivers for the Linux kernel.
Open Source, if possible. Let me guess what their answer would be...
> On Mandrake it has taken a week to figure out it is all but
> impossible.
It is not. But then again, Gnu/Linux does not really have the same
hardware vendor support as Microsoft Windows does, or does it?
> First I installed LE 2005, couldn't get it working, so I installed the
> 2006 Beta 2.
You *do* know the meaning of the word /beta,/ don't you?
> I had to manually download and copy the firmware files to the
> appropriate directory, because for some reason Mandrake does not do
> this automatically.
Oh my God! Manually? Are you allright? Should we call for a doctor?
<grin>
> Then I had to locate wpa_supplicant. What other operating system
> forces you to GOOGLE for parts to get the network functional? I
> installed wpa_supplicant and it kept giving errors so it would not
> work.
An error message has a meaning. Look at what it's saying and deal with
it. Even if it means that you'd have to run a Google search, God
forbid that it should happen to you... <sarcasm intended>
> Meanwhile I was using generic GeForce drivers which kept falling over
> and making a mess of the screen. On shutdown Linux would frequently
> hang while closing down the filesystem.
Blame nVidia then. They're the ones who supplied the X.Org developers
with those drivers.
> The cpufreq module would for some reason not work on init.
Mandriva unjustly adds "acpi=ht" to the kernel's /append/ line in your
bootloader. Change this to "acpi=on" in order for CPU frequency
scaling to work.
> The reason Linux isn't popular for the desktop is because it's a
> nightmare to try to get it working, and there is no support.
There is plenty of support, especially for purchased distributions. You
typically also find much better support here than you would if you
contact Microsoft. Trust me, I know...
As for the nightmare, I consider Microsoft Windows, its Registry and its
entire licensing policy a far greater nightmare.
> I would willingly pay some money for something that works, instead I
> have wasted an entire week of my time trying to breathe some life into
> this non functional mess.
Read all the documentation, do Google searches, ask on newsgroups, and
if you paid for your copy of LE 2005, contact Mandriva - you are
entitled to.
I'm afraid your vision is severely clouded, and you are simply expecting
Gnu/Linux to be an alternative for Windows. Well, it is *not* and
never was intended as such. This is UNIX. Live with it or go back to
spending lots of money on the crashing software from somewhere in
Redmond.
-- With kind regards, *Aragorn* (Registered Gnu/Linux user #223157)
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