Re: Why are Linux Applications So Unstable?
From: Mark Bratcher (mbratch.UN_at_SPAM.rochester.rr.com)
Date: 03/25/05
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Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 16:30:59 GMT
I have the opposite issue. Windows apps misbehave all the time on my PC.
But all the Linux stuff works fine (OpenOffice.org 1.1.4, Firefox,
Thunderbird, AIM, GAIM, XMMS, etc).
Linux applications aren't "just buggy".
Susie wrote:
> I have been using Linux for about one month now and one thing I have
> discovered is that Linux applications tend to be very unstable. For
> example kaffeine crashes all the time. Mplayer slows to a crawl and
> loses sync between video and sound when I open more than two copies at
> the same time. Amarok skips mp3's all the time. Knode just crashes and
> disappears from the screen at times for no reason.
> Mozilla firefox seems slugish compared to the Windows version.
> Konqueror crashes at times when I try to copy a large number of files,
> (mp3) from one drive to another.
> K3b refuses to burn an audio CD and locks up the entire computer when
> I try.
> Openoffice refuses to print certain documents properly even though
> they seem to display on the screen fine.
> My USB thumb drive will sometimes not mount yet other times works
> fine.
>
> Before you blame my hardware or the version of Linux I am using my
> computer runs Windows XP just fine with no problems and it is an Abit
> system with a P4 3 gig CPU in it and 1G memory. I have DMA turned on
> for all drives and the video card is Nvidia something or other I
> forget.
> I have tried suse, mandrake and ubuntu and experienced similar results
> but with different applications on each which leads me to believe that
> Linux applications are just buggy.
> Linux needs more CSS software that is professionally developed and
> tested because the programs that come with Linux distributions are
> obviously not being tested by anyone. And yes I know there are good
> applications for Linux like Apache and slrn and so forth but at the
> same time, the gui based applications seem to need a lot of work
> before I would use them in a production enviornment.
> Openoffice for example is nowhere near as good in quality as Microsoft
> Office is. Maybe in time Linux will improve but for now a solid
> operating system surrounded by buggy applications is not going to
> cause people to move from Windows to Linux.
> Susie
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