Linked by kvaruni on Mon 11th Jul 2005 14:48 UTC
The true reason for this article is to point out some sensitive points and to start a discussion. Hopefully, this discussion will produce some useful outcome and if some people in the Linux community are willing to listen to them, I would already be very enthusiastic. Let's start, shall we?
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Anonymous
It's been a couple years already that Linux has had a fantastic desktop, and now Linux is even better than WinXP. Check out Xandros, their filemanager is a million miles ahead of windows explorer.
So the best file manager on Xandros is better than the worst file manager on Windows. You could've knocked me over with a feather! Did you also know that OpenOffice is better than Wordpad? If you don't know where I'm going with this, power users don't use Windows Explorer
rayiner
It's not so much that the opinion doesn't matter, its that the opinion isn't credible. Someone who doesn't use the OS can't render a valid opinion on what is and is not wrong with it.
Or what about somebody who hasn't used an OS in years? i.e. - people who haven't used Windows since Win98 complaining about how unstable it is?
Saying what isn't a possibility? That you don't know the true shortcomings of Linux? Given that you refer to a font problem that hasn't existed for years, I'm inclined to say "yes, it isn't".
I dunno ... maybe you're right. Last time I really paid attention was Xandros 2.0. Have they fixed it since then? Don't get me wrong - fonts in KDE/QT apps looked good, but fonts in non-QT apps were horrible and way too small. There wasn't a way to fix this with the font configuration dialog. This was a well-known problem documented on the forums. Supposedly, you could apt-get another font config (that's simplicity for you), but I never was successful at it.
rm6990
How the hell is having different artists akin to having MS set their own standards?? That makes absolutely no sense! Having different artists is the same as having different interoperable software. Now if each artist had their own CD format and you had to buy an Eminem brand stereo to listen to Eminem your comment would make sense. My point was the software is interoperable so why not have choice? Are you saying we should have one OS, one office suite, one email client, for all computers? So are you now saying we should only have one band world-wide?
Look, as I already told you, I was talking about package managers, not applications. Packages aren't applications any more than zip files or web pages, so you need a standard way of dealing with them.
CrazyDude0
Welcome my friend to receive the wrath of hardcore linux fanatics. Truth really bites in Linux community. Now you will see 100 of people coming and telling that it is your mistake you couldn't get Linux to work and how it is much better than all other OS in the world.
Or my personal favorite - you were using the wrong distro! Either the fault lies with the user or the distro, because everybody knows Linux is perfect.