Linked by Gilboa Davara on Thu 30th Jun 2005 12:29 UTC
If you've heard about Linux and feel like giving it a go or if you want to try Linux but you're too afraid it'll shew up your computer, this article is for you. Read it, feel free to take what you need and ignore the rest. This is not a tutorial, it's a README-FIRST-like article. It should help you to take that first dive.
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I for one love the idea of an OS that's not MS nor Apple. The only problem though is after three years or more of messing around with Linux I'm tired of it. Specifically I'm tired of:
1) Fonts still suck, Linspire is the best here because of being able to buy fonts (which one wouldn't have to do in Win or Apple)
2) Printer support and other peripherals are still spotty requireing jumping through hoops to get to work and even then they never work quite right. Even more impossible to get to work through SAMBA. The problem is the new printers are dirt cheap and thus use subpar drivers as is the case with HP inkjets. Those printers are made to NOT work on a network, they want us to own a printer per computer instead. It can still be done on windows but via samba is spotty at best.
3) Still there is no standard media player for the 'net that's easy and legal. Linspire again wins out here because they have licensed the Quicktime and WMA codecs at least so one doesn't have to use crossover. For those who do use crossover getting that to work is an exercise in frustration too, both the normal crossover install and the bult in one in Xandros 3 crash when win media player, quicktime and a host of other built in programs are attempted to be installed.
It's all just become one big pain in the A$$ and even harder to even think about recommending to anyone else.
Since Apple is still not going to open their OS to let people (why not just restrict retail clone sales of?) build their own it looks like we're still stuck with MSFT monopoly.