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I find the opposite

I find the opposite to be true not only have many I know switched and find it superior , but this has led to more people asking for systems preloaded with a version or even two.

Since there is so much choice it can be difficult to the newcomer, but all it takes is use. People weren't born knowing windows and had to put up with that.

Fonts - much FUD, how hard is it to select different ones or add new ones.

Dependencies - Can be an issue if you are installing something bleeding edge but not that difficult. 90% of what you may want is on the additional Cd's that come with your distro. or if you download the RPM for your version. Then of course there is Apt-Get/Synaptic, Portage/Emerge and Urpm etc So this is an issue but almost a non issue today.

OS/2 and BeOS are examples of MS damaging or destroying other commercial OSes. Be especially (they recently settle that suit). MS Prevented the OEM from turning on the boot-loader so even thought there was both MS and BE were there on a couple of models you had to go through a convoluted process to revive the boot-loader.

I might add that this was in '98 MS was in the middle of their trial.(and even used them as an example of alternatives out there.) Even tough it came at around the same time as 98 it was technically superior, small fast modern real-time kernel, better memory management, built specifically for multimedia, multi-tasking, and the Internet. There were only so many apps, but this was the middle of the tech-bubble anything was possible given they had the opportunity. (Who knows, could of been a poor man's MAC) This could of been a much better Client/consumer OS. But instead we have no commercial alternatives. (for x86) Thank God at least OSS is more than up to the challenge.

Also I find KDE to be a far superior environment to windows and would point out that the win 95 environment was a copy or inclusion of third party program manager/task bar/dock/menu bar/program launcher like Appbar or Powerbar. These were copies of things available for other OSes: Mac/multifinder/kickstart, NeXT/AppDock, XWindows/CDE, Sun/NeWS,IBM/Workspace shell etc and most of these were available before 1990.
(win3.0)

But to each his own----

Posted by: LazLong   Posted on: 12/15/03 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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