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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And just what encompasses the internet hmm? IE only web pages, pages with windows media or apple quicktime. And a second reason is DVD movies.
Very few web pages are IE only - Firefox and Konqueror correctly render 99%+ of web pages out there.
As for Windows Media, Apple Quicktime and DVD movies, I was able to quickly set these under Ubuntu. It took a thirty-second Google search and following the clear instructions found on the Ubuntu support site. I imagine most people would be able to find this out very quickly.
Now, unless I'm missing something, Windows XP will NOT read Quicktime movies nor will it play DVDs out of the box...
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from article: "as long as the computer has already been configured and all his favourite apps are to be found on the desktop."
--as has been said time and time before whenever this topic comes up -- therein lies the rub. The biggest use by home users on their computers today is the internet. And just what encompasses the internet hmm? IE only web pages, pages with windows media or apple quicktime. And a second reason is DVD movies. Games are not absolutely necessary anymore since the new generation of consoles are computers essentially and rival them in graphics and processing power now.
So to solve those problems (and even games) one needs third party commercial apps such as Crossover which doesn't always work right, or pay extra for the LinspireOS which has licenced codecs but surprise surprise doesn't ship with the tools to actually use the Linux part of the OS making you have to download the tools which then often causes the whole system to break.
So where's this leave us then hmm? It leaves Linux in the category it's always excelled in - very pointed specialized apps. It is not a full featured OS and WON'T be until its accepted by the other companies Apple, MS, hardware vendors for drivers and support etc... and that just won't ever happen on a wide scale.
Wish it would, but it's a pipe dream.