I am fairly new to linux, I have only been using it for 2 months now and that is not even an everyday thing. It's more like a weekend thing. Anyway I find this article a bunch of crap. There are tons of web browers that work great with linux, even Konq does a good job
#2 is not an issue. I have had the power go out at least 5 times and have never had this problem on boot up, and I also have a SPARC20 with Solaris on it -- have had this issue in Solaris but not linux #3. Printing can't argue here as I don't have a printer hooked up to my linux box, I might have to do this though to see what the fuss is. #4. I think the KDE and Gnome menus are very self explanatory, granted they could be laid out a little better but for me the are self explanatory -- catagories like Internet, Office, Toys, Graphics, Games, etc.. self explantory if you ask me. #5. NOw I don't have this problem on my machine (2 x 1GH P3, 784 MB Ram, GeForce 2 64MB video card running Nvidia drivers for Linux) #6. I have never had a problem with this, I thought the man page for "ps" was helpful #7. I have no need for this -- not an issue here #8. Sound ah a good issue to discuss, as I haven't bothered to configure my sound card, I assume it is already configured during the install (I could be wrong) but I don't have any speakers to hook up to it to test it out. Damn oh well I guess I am not concerned with this at this point (maybe when I get a real job and make some money I can buy speakers.) #9. Type it right the first time -- end of story #10. I have a 21 inch standard monitor -- I run at 1280 x 1024 nuff said.... anything under this is useless. Just my $.02 worth of input thanks Mike -----Original Message----- From: Alastair Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 1:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Ten Things Wrong with Linux -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Doubtless this will provoke some discussion! http://people.trustcommerce.com/~adam/top10/wrong.html Unfortunately, there are several things wrong with the article: i. I don't agree with the argument in 1, which carries the danger of falling into the the 'designed for Internet Explorer' trap; the more 'best browsers' the better. (And 'hurt the user experience' makes me reach for the blue pencil :) ii. 4 is no issue with Mandrake; the 'What to do?' menu item is excellent and a simple solution. iii. I wonder what sort of machine he's using as 5 is not visible here (1GHz PIII, 256MB RAM, built-in i815 graphics) iv. 9 is resolved by nedit, which he evidently isn't aware of. v. 10, although a crowd-puller when implemented, is becoming irrelevant with the advent of flat panel displays; this one runs at 1280x1024 (24-bit colour) and there's _no point_ running at any other resolution. However, 3 and 8 together seem to form about half of the queries to this list, although the author seems to be ignorant of the difficulties caused by forced reverse-engineering. I understand why; as another 'software architect' it's all too easy to fly away and become a cloud-dweller :) Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9LxdlCv59vFiSU4YRAlm+AJ9NvFjtsImVgwhee7IHvZMgCEm/jgCfb73U d3gKxp5pEKbMUvt2zPuubx8= =bHjT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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