Norman Palardy wrote:
On Dec 21, 2006, at 1:05 PM, Bryan Lund wrote:
Ronald Vogelaar wrote:
In short, the state of RB on Linux perfectly matches the state of
Linux itself?
...looks promising, but (still!) not quite there yet.
Maybe you're using an old distro or something. I run REALbasic
everyday under multiple distro's. In all cases RB is running fast and
stable (as is the underlying OS). Build times under Linux are
essentially identical to those under Vista on the same machine.
Linux on the desktop has come a long way and is quite usable, once you
figure out which of the hundreds of distro's you want to use, what
pieces you want installed, etc.
It's still not as usable to the average consumer as either Windows or OS
X because of the plethora of similar choices.
Choices are good but sometimes too many choices is just paralyzing and
Linux seems to fall into this pit of too many choices thereby paralyzing
potential adopters.
The American Psychology association has an article on exactly this
phenomenon http://www.apa.org/monitor/jun04/toomany.html
Agreed. At least in most respects. Some distro's (SLED and Linspire
come to mind) have done a great job of simplifying this. For an office
user the choices become simple (use what the Distro says to use, unless
you need something more).
Which, really, is no different than OS X or Windows. Heck, if you
install XP you don't really have a usable system. You need to go out
and install a multitude of applications to get a basic set of
functionality. Linux (for the most part) is ahead of that. Out of the
box you typically have your full office suite, email client, etc.
I think the fear of things being complex (or having too many choices) is
bigger than the complexity or choices itself.
-Bryan
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