Linked by Thom "Slakje" Holwerda on Fri 25th Jul 2003 19:42 UTC
To me, it's a miracle how every tiny article on OSNews.com, or any other tech-site, ends up in people shouting all sorts of nonsense at each other like "Linux is gonna bring back Elvis", "Windows shot president Kennedy", "Linux kept the cold war cold" or "Bill Gates wants to buy the moon and charge people for looking at it". Do these people really know what they are saying, or are they just going with the Open-Source flow? Update: Rebuttal article here.
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You seem to have aknowledged that if services were shutoff
then it would boot much faster, but say that joe sixpack
doesn't know how to turn them off. Well in that case I guess joe six pack doesn't know how to turn off, norton very bloated suite of tools, MSN, quicktime,media player, adobe, office and the 20 other programs he/she downloaded. because it requires thumbing though either the programs properties/msconfig/startup menu/registry, ect. in which case windows takes minutes b4 being useable. Be fair here please.
Which brings me to the next issue, you say windows is easy to find in the file system well personally I don't think throwing everything in one folder is 'well orginized' I call it one folder as in 'windows' dir but inside that is a mess (system, system32, NT, etc)DLL's and dependancys are scattered in windows dir or program folders,registry an advanced user would not have problems with this but an advanced user would also not have problems with reading how unix file system works. If you took 20-40 minutes http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/index.html#TOC
you'd see that it all makes sence and would immediatly know where to look for things.
And the last think I can remember you saying was package management, redhats new beta has yum installed in it. If you think its harder to type 'yum install <program>' then to open a browser,
search for your program,
download it,
click though its install sheild anwsering questions
then spend time doing it all over again when you want an update or 'need' an update. Then I say your standards are set a bit too high.
BTW don't say okay 'now' they have yum but before they didn't. well up2date had the ability to fetch new packages from the internet but you're only limited to a few thousand apps (the ones that came on RH CD's)Now the
app support should be much larger I expect.
Linux is by no means perfect, windows is better at alot of things like hardware support which you mentioned. This
is why I do not like these articals the authors are usually great on only one of the systems and get tons of things wrong. like "yeah but windows blue screens" (thats like a once a month thing if that on XP) or "X on linux is slow" (Try booting up fvwm it'll load in 2 seconds.)