Linked by Mystilleef on Mon 29th Sep 2003 06:30 UTC
Linux will become ubiquitous in the year 3000. Okay, that was a horrible joke. Linux is just a kernel, the engine that runs an operating system. By itself, it is essentially useless. Kernels shouldn't be discussed or noticed by normal users. And as such when providing these users with reviews, previews and "professional" opinions, computer consultants, computer reviewers and computer journalists should not spew headlines like "Linux is not ready for prime time", "Linux on the desktop by XXX", "Linux to takeover Windows", "Linux is not ready for desktop" and so on.
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By Wrawrat (IP: ---.130-201-24.mtl.mc.videotron.ca) - Posted on 2003-09-29 06:09:00
Pardon my non-techniess, but MSN has easy to launch checkers and head-2-head mine sweeper. It also has the best feature, most UI feature. File transfers, games are not presented to the user using in your face message boxes, but with inline text in ur chat window.
Pardon my trollness, but what background pictures, games and custom emoticons (things that probably made you switch) have to do with "ease of use", let alone with an IM client? Personally, I can't show any respect for a instant messenging program recommending a goddamn P3 (I've tried on the min req and it's unuseable). As for file transferts, I hate the way MSN handles them. The progression bar hardly tell me what's going on.
And hence a perfect example of not understanding the user. Yes my friend, playing checkers is part of ease of use. I like to play checkers over MSN. Now its much easier to click on a person's name and choose play checkers on MSN than it is to get their IP address, go to the command line, and type "checkers --join "123.456.789"". It's also much easier than spending a few minutes logging into Yahoo games and find a channel...
As to the requirements of Messenger. I have a 1gig Duron. Not exatly state of the art, but MSN has never impacted its performance. I code, play games, and MSN is nicely doing its thing in the background. I don't care what its requirements are. If I see my system slowing down, then maybe I'll have a look at it. MSN and other 'background' apps are not the bottleneck of my PC.
Yamin