> Well, Shridhar, it seems you particularly wish to get nasty, fine, > then, here goes...
totally uncalled for IMHO > > >> There are a lot more things still missing in Linux, > >> 1. Optimised performance across all machines. > > All? Where is the list? > > All the machines which Linux "claims" to support. > (in the desktop class) Be objective and the "Lot More" will turn out to be "very little". A lot of users use linux as a desktop today and are very happy with the performance they get. > > >> 2. Ease of use without taxing the system too much (KDE is excellent, > >> but its the biggest bloat I have ever come across). > >>From my last three installs on i810/128MB RAM(These three are > different > > machines), KDE/MDK8.1 is faster than win98 though not faster than > 95. And > > win98 > > Thats because you probably never got near a Macintosh in your entire > life. > Try comparing it with the "real thing", and then come back and talk > about it. from what i have read mac's in the pre-FreeBSD-ripoff period were as prone as windblows machines to memory leaks. > Just to give you an eye opener, Macintosh gives stunning performance > even on a 8Mb machine and beat any other GUI system out there hands > down on usability. granted i have never got a chance to see a mac in action. speaking (speculating) purely from a hardware point of view, i have serious doubts about the rendering of "stunning graphics" on 8 mb machines in real time. > > >> 3. Ease of install (I bet any of the distro makers coming anywhere > >> near winDOZE as far as ease of install goes, leave aside the > >> Macintosh, thats one place where it would take them a lifetime to > >> reach) > > > > I would say you are treading a dangerous territory. After I start > installing > > Mandrake, within 50 minutes I have a ready workstation with office > and > > dvelopment tools. Installtion of NT at same level takes more than 2 > hours. > > You are going off at a tangent Shridhar. > We are talking Desktop Linux, never thought NT figured in the desktop > variety. it does if you consider W2K which is easily one of the better products from the M$ stable. How about replacing win nt with win me ?? Shridhars argument does hold then. > > And, what you don't seem to understand (just like Atul) is that there > is a difference between you and a general computer user (leave aside a > newbie). > I wonder what a newbie would think when he is presented with the > screen where he is asked to partition his drive, he would just run > away from it. duh, give mandrake a raw hdd and it will choose your partitions if you want it to. still not seen that in windblows, don't know about the mac. > > > IMO Windows truely bears to it's name of NT aka neandethel > technology as far > > as installing software goes.. > > Dunno why, but it seems like you had an affair with NT and it ditched > you. i wouldn't call it an affair, but yes some of us have used windblows before seeing the light. > > >> 4. A next generation UI, look at all those Window Managers, they are > >> all wannabes of some old UI paradigm. > > Great. Something like multiple desktops and IO slaves? Multiple > associations > > and different associations for editing and viewing documents? > > But I don't remember seeing any of these on any version of windows? > I just > > saw them in KDE.. > > You miss the point again, does any Linux desktop system come anywhere > close to winDOZE as far as usability goes? > Again, reminding you that the issue at hand is the "desktop", here, a > user doesn't give a damn about IO slaves, et all, what matters to him > is usability. My office pc, runs RH 7.1, and i use enlightenment as a window manager. And it's da best !! couldn't get better than this. *everything* is just a mouse click away. took me about half an hour to figure out how to get that done, but then again i am a newbie, any body else would find it even easier if only they tried. At home i use MDK 8.1, and no surprises run enlightenment there to. I tweak my desktop(s) background, browse, email, chat (on msn), listen to mp3's, watch TV, movies etc all in linux. I do the occaisional coding (gvim, gawk, TCL, Verilog all available in linux), word processing (openoffice) if i still feel like working on the weekend. So how much more usable can my linux system get ??? > > Linux had been trying to give usability since the days of FVWM2 (I > guess), and that was long before Mr. Steve Jobs and company came along > (in 2001) and stunned the world with Mac OS X, which incidentally is > again Unix _based_ > What was the Linux community doing with all the lead time they had? > > > Who's the leader? > > Now based on the above points, "you" tell us who is the leader. > Just to make your life easy, here are the options: > () Linux, () winDOZE, () Mac OS, () Mac OS X whatever works for you i suppose. here on the ilug-goa list we had an idiot who posted something like 'try win XP and you'll forget about linux', there is simply no accounting for taste. my 2 paise worth anyway, mario _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
