Re: Linux and audio pro

From: Geoff Wood (geoff_at_nospam-paf.co.nz)
Date: 05/31/05 

Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 08:03:44 +1200

"Tim Smith" <reply_in_group@mouse-potato.com> wrote in message

> 1. For the typical user, dealing with viruses and/or spyware.

Not a problem, espcially on a DAW machine.

>
> 2. For those who are into games, dealing with drivers and DirectX.
> Whenever you get a new game, that requires a later version of DirectX
> than you have, it often requires a lot of fiddling to keep your old
> stuff working. Same when ATI or NVidia releases new drivers.

Auto-update, or a click on a ferebie CD keeps all that up to date.

> 3. Hardware setup. Wireless networking on Windows, for example, can be
> much more time consuming to set up than wireless on OS X, because too
> much is left up to the hardware vendor, and hardware vendors often have
> some strange notions as to how to design setup and configuration
> software.

WIreless network on a DAW ?

> 4. Keeping software up to date. With most Linux distributions and with
> OS X, you don't need any third-party software for safe, effective basic
> computer use. With Windows, you need to get a third-party browser

What ?

>and
> email client, or at least get third-party add-ons to the bundled browser
> and email client.

What ?

>That means you end up with important software that is
> not covered by Windows Update,

Bullshit

>and so you've got to deal with keeping
> that software up to date. On Linux or OS X, everything you need for
> basic computer use is included, and covered with the system update
> mechanism.

Just like Windows then.

geoff

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