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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Very similar things can be said about Windows XP (or any other operating system)
"...I bought Suse Linux 9.1 and ran into many problems (could not install together with XP, bootloader issues, hardware recognition, etc.). That alone puts people off..."
I have run into many problems with installing Windows XP on many computers, including hardware recognition, and particularly not installing together with other operating systems. Problems that I did not have when installing several different Linux distributions on the same hardware.
"KDE and Gnome are nowhere near XP..."
Yes, in my experience KDE and Gnome are easier to use, more intuitive and far more stable. But this is just my experience. I do not claim that everyone has the same experience. To you Windows is superior, but not to everyone.
"...not to mention the file system labyrinth..."
You must be kidding here. Are you claiming that the file system on Windows XP is not also a blizzard of unknown files to the average user? In my experience Linux does a much better job of putting user's files in their home directory than Windows does in My Documents directory.
"...software installation difficulty..."
It depends on the software. You represent all software installation in Linux with one statement. This is completely misrepresentative. There is no software installation on Windows XP that is as easy as using a package manager like URPMI or equivalent. Some software installation on Linux is easier than on Windows, some is more difficult. Similarly on Windows, not all software is installed by just double clicking on a setup.exe file.
"...kernel bugs, etc..."
Again, there are no bugs in the Windows kernel?
These generalizations about Linux by those that incessantly discredit it only prove that there are zealots for every operating system (the example above being a Windows zealot)