Some important finessing going on here
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| AnonymousCoward Jul 11, 2005 5:30 AM EDT |
Linux is admin-friendly, but MS-Windows is not? Why is this so when MS-Windows needs adminning so much more often? Linux is supposedly not user friendly because you might have trouble installing a driver - but wait, isn't that an admin function? Don't most device drivers come with Linux anyway? I speak here of working drivers, not the nominal drivers shipped with XP that have to be instantly replaced with new drivers downloaded from the manufacturer if you expect the machine to not crash (ir)regularly when using the device. Doesn't any modern Linux distribution automatically handle 99% of device driver finding and activation requirements? What distro did this guy use, LinuxFromScratch? Linux is supposedly not user friendly... but how is having to admin your own box regularly - as MS-Windows users routinely do - supposed to be more "user friendly?" What is this mysterious "lack of customized integration for the Linux user"? He was demoing KDE (presumably something later than 1.2, but we aren't told), which has customisation options leaking out of both its ears. Or is he talking about things like the Mandrake Control Centre, or works-out-of-the-box mod_$FAVOURITELANGUAGE Apache modules, or similar PostgreSQL/MySQL/thisSQL/thatSQL packages? Does not compute. Likeliest missing information? $DON_JOHNSON="subtle shill" However, it was pleasant to see lots of Microsofties learning that Linux doesn't have three heads, bolts in its neck, stitches and uneven eyeballs. |
| richo123 Jul 11, 2005 6:21 AM EDT |
Yeah sounds like a subtle variation on the "Get the Facts (tm)" campaign. Complete BS |
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