That's pretty funny, but I can actually relate. I had the exact reverse experience as the original poster, and I guess most people--I went from win98 to Linux for my home systems back in late '99. Then when I first got this AMD64, I used XP for the first few weeks because I didn't have time to tweak Linux. I hadn't used Windows as my "home" OS in nearly six years, and I found it really frustrating because of the immense volume of crap, closed-source, spyware-installing software you have to sift through to find anything good, and the absolutely rubbish interfaces (for someone who knows exactly what they want to do and how.)
Really, the only big problem I see in Linux that isn't getting better fast enough is device/component support. I know that a lot of this can be blamed on vendors, but it also seems like there's a pretty strong tendency in the Linux community to consider a problem "fixed" when what you actually have a is a disgusting workaround that works most of the time. Oh, and the lack of native Half-Life 2. :-) On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 11:28 -0500, JT Moree wrote: > > I'm afraid with Windows (any flavor) there will be some amount of > tinkering, fixing, and troubleshooting needed and there will be some > things that you cannot do because while most Open Source software > supports Linux, a much smaller portion supports Windows. I hope that > changes in the future and we will be able to do anything we could do in > Linux in Windows. We've come a long way with tools like cygwin, but we > still aren't quite there yet. > > ;) > > - -- > JT Morée > PC Xperience, Inc. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFDFIk1XEayxvjyJdwRAtLhAKCJSSM2FTyD4yD9wuUfxE7PJO9WUACfeBTS > 4K4jPTfpXy6ceA5yGyflGFU= > =3Y5+ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > LinuxR3000 mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pcxperience.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000 > Wiki at http://prinsig.se/weekee/ _______________________________________________ LinuxR3000 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pcxperience.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000 Wiki at http://prinsig.se/weekee/
