Netbook returns blamed on Linux 'teething problems'

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PFF!

Sorry, but I couldn't help laughing at your reply:

"Proving once again no one wants linux! The people at Canonical seem to be clueless about these netbook returns."

What are you talking about? Sales of Linux based machines are going up for first time in history. They didn't use to preinstall linux destributions on laptops, since one of the producers started to, the others started copying because it had positive results. Now there are more netbooks with linux preinstalled than windows. Get your facts right!

"Return rate are higher but not that high? Just admit defeat already and close up your shop! XP has been around for 20 years either. Lets look at linux, its been around for 15 years and still hasn't made any inroads to anything computer related and people do not want it. With thinking like those of Canonical's its no surprise that linux is dying. These guys are delusional."

Shop? Pff! Canonical isn't a shop! XP has been around since 2003, I was using Slackware linux in the 90's... I've been a windows and linux user for more than 10 years, each one has it's benefits... and Linux has come a LONG way since then, specially SuSe, Ubuntu and Archlinux... Now: "Linux is Dying"? Where on earth did you get THAT fact from? Au contraire; Show me evidence, show me textual facts and I'll believe you, because sale rates just prove the opposite.

"Lets look at the real problem of linux and why people do not want it. It is such a pain to configure and maintain."

Tell that to any Ubuntu user... Install time is faster than XP (I did mine in 10-15 minutes, XP takes 30-45). Comes preinstalled with open office, quite a few useful apps, wireless drivers, everything. USB Memory devices work just as in XP: Plug and play... Configure? That's optional. Maintain? It has software updates, just like in windows XP. Auto update works since it is installed... You dont have to "turn it on" like in Windows, plus, there is no annoying Windows Genuine Advantage programs auto-downloaded.

"Lets check every software program installed on linux (all 500 of them because they don't give you a choice), then go to each vendor's website to see if the new version is available, try to find the download link amongst all the other text they have on the screen, download the source code, then bring up a terminal window where the user has to type in unknown commands to get the source to extract, then use some more obfuscated commands to compile the source and pray it compiles cleanly, then install it to whatever directory the application feels like installing it to since there is no standard for that, and the user has to find the executable file, run it and watch it seg fault and then create the kernel panic."

PFF!! Obviously you are refering to 10 year old distributions right? You must not know the wonders of apt-get (or pacman in archlinux), aptitude, synaptic... etc... It's called centralised application/package location. All packages are stored in the same place, it's a "global" application add/remove system, much better than windows. Finding a certain application takes tons less time than in windows, plus, you don't have to go to the vendors website...oh! and might I say, application updates come through the same updating service... so it's really really practical!

"I won't mention the network issues where it takes hours to configure, or the sound issue of only playing one sound at a time. Going through all this trouble and linux still hasn't figured out why no one is using their OS. Sad. Very very sad."

OH my gosh, same issue... My wireless network was detected since I did the install, I was using ethernet since BASH (terminal) loaded and auto-detected DHCP settings. It took 5 seconds, and there was no mention of the word "configure". Playing one sound at a time? Are you on drugs? I've got sound working on flash, multiple instances at a time... I can play music through amarok or rythmbox, have a movieplayer instance running an AVI or an MP3, and be watching a youtube video at the same time, on multiple screens, with no slowdown rate.

Might I add, Linux (specially ubuntu and archlinux) have better built-in graphic rendering systems (gnome, kde) which preserve memory and use it wisely, compared to windows (even worse in vista). Linux programmers know how to best use computer resources, Windows should learn something about this! Instead of asking for more requirements every new version.

And if you can't admit I am right about this, you must really have your head filled with hype. I dare you! Download ubuntu (from the main site), burn the ISO (easy cd creator? power iso?) stick it in your machine, and go on... try it out, maybe on a second partition, or another hard drive... just for the sake of it... You will only use up a few minutes, and you will learn how Linux has progressed since the time you seem to have used it last.

Go on!

Posted by: lemiffe   Posted on: 10/10/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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