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| Thread ID: 54706 | 2005-02-20 00:12:00 | Linux Now Easier To Use Than Windows? | vinref (6194) | PC World Chat |
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| 326673 | 2007-02-14 22:13:00 | What sorta things in his bathroom will it control? Hehe, I can just picture it. Boot up PC, twiddle with software, tap tuns on, Twiddle some more, it tells you to brush. And so on...... |
pctek (84) | ||
| 326674 | 2007-02-15 03:14:00 | What sorta things in his bathroom will it control? When you arise from throne it pulls the chain. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 326675 | 2007-02-15 08:30:00 | What sorta things in his bathroom will it control? It will run the bath to the desired temperature, turn lights on, flush the loo. I will try and find the link again. What you don't seem to realise pctek is that once you have a linux box set up it requires very little tinkering unlike Windows. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 326676 | 2007-02-15 18:46:00 | What you don't seem to realise pctek is that once you have a linux box set up it requires very little tinkering unlike Windows . We must live on different planets, or at least I must . :confused: My original installation of W98 is over 10 years old and still running just fine, boots every day and all programs present and correct . Likewise my W2K installation which is about 6 years old I think and just works, no problems, no hassles . I did have to restore an image when a ram stick failure corrupted it a few years back, but being an image, it is still the original installation . How much more reliable could I want? The majority of Windows problems are created by its ease of use, which lets anybody and everybody play to their heart's content . It's not surprising that some have problems, and the same would apply to Linux if it had the same user base and demographic, but a more non-standardised OS you could never want to meet . If all Linux distributions were identical and it was exposed to the user-base, range of uses and applications that Windows copes with, similar problems would arise . Same probably goes for Mac, which has a strictly limited range of hardware and software . If you ride a push bike you are unlikely to ever experience fuel-injection problems, suffer a parachute failure or get a parking ticket . It's all about exposure and there are many times more Windows users that Mac, Linux and all other OS types put together . It is simply not possible to make a valid "like with like" comparison between Windows and Linux computers, or Macs for that matter, but without doubt a Windows OS is vastly easier for a novice to install, customise, adapt, upgrade, and break . Market share resolves all arguments and answers all questions . 95%/5%/?% Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 326677 | 2007-02-15 19:19:00 | It will run the bath to the desired temperature, turn lights on, flush the loo. I will try and find the link again. It astounds me that someone would go to this much effort and think through so much as if to prepare for his/her brain falling out to the point where they cant run a bath or remember to flush their own body waste away any more. |
personthingy (1670) | ||
| 326678 | 2007-02-15 19:27:00 | Billy I think the only thing market shares prove is that marketing creates sales, people buy what the next sheep bought, and that windows is usually pre-installed on a PC It often takes less time to install Linux as most hardware is supported without hunting hi and low for drivers. At least thats my experience. Running a live CD in most cases will give a fully functional machine within minutes. The only hardware issues i seem o find are getting full use of vid cards, but that is fixed with a quick trip to nvidia via the interweb thingy. |
personthingy (1670) | ||
| 326679 | 2007-02-15 19:45:00 | Billy It often takes less time to install Linux as most hardware is supported without hunting hi and low for drivers. At least thats my experience. Running a live CD in most cases will give a fully functional machine within minutes. The only hardware issues i seem o find are getting full use of vid cards, but that is fixed with a quick trip to nvidia via the interweb thingy. Great- and then what can you do with it? |
Shortcircuit (1666) | ||
| 326680 | 2007-02-15 20:00:00 | Great- and then what can you do with it?Grab my email, surf the net, play music with amarok, graphic design, and several hundred other functions that come with KDE and/or most live CDs... Of course if one likes it there's the option of installing the system that may or may not be an icon on the "live CD" desktop. Once installed one can then use apt-get or synaptic to add or remove thousands of addons or do it the hard way (like windows) and go to the creators websites and download the programs That was a serious question right?????????? |
personthingy (1670) | ||
| 326681 | 2007-02-15 20:08:00 | EVERYTHING in my box is fully supported by linux drivers that just work out-of-the-box with OpenSuSE 10.2 Even XP has better support than Vista, with neither of my sound cards being detected in Vista, my graphics driver not being updatable from the standard Vista one, and my Tuner card deemed useless. In XP its both sound cards, TV Tuner card, sATA controller, and only standard drivers for my Ti4200 Graphics card. SuSE *just worked* :) Ive even got all the software I need for playback of video files / audio files / office suite / mail software / firefox :D Mind you I did have to update Xine with MP3 support so that I wouldnt be using RealPlayer as a backend for AmaroK but such is life :) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 326682 | 2007-02-15 20:08:00 | EVERYTHING in my box is fully supported by linux drivers that just work out-of-the-box with OpenSuSE 10.2 Even XP has better support than Vista, with neither of my sound cards being detected in Vista, my graphics driver not being updatable from the standard Vista one, and my Tuner card deemed useless. In XP its both sound cards, TV Tuner card, sATA controller, and only standard drivers for my Ti4200 Graphics card. SuSE *just worked* :) Ive even got all the software I need for playback of video files / audio files / office suite / mail software / firefox :D Mind you I did have to update Xine with MP3 support so that I wouldnt be using RealPlayer as a backend for AmaroK but such is life :) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
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