> From: Erik Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 10:19:19AM -0600, The Fool wrote: > > Ask the average human being to do this. He will stare back at you > > blankly. > > Ask the someone to fix a registry problem. Same. At least with linux, if > you are willing to read a little documentation, you can do it. > > > Theres always 'windows update'. (I know, I know). > > That doesn't update all your installed applications.
Apt-get only updates packages that come with debian. And people call M$ bad for bundling middle ware with windows, but linux most linux distros do the same, with more middleware packages than microsoft does. > > BS. For every program written for linux there are several hundred > > written for windows. In particular things like 'autoCAD', 'WinAMP', > > etc. > > WinAMP is available for linux. It's called xmms. But how many user made plugins are made for linux? Not many. Which makes the whole point mute, because the power of WinAMP is it's overwhelming number of plugins / userbase. > There are good CAD programs for linux. Do you know how much AutoCAD > costs? QCad and Varkon are free on linux: ( http://www.qcad.org/ , > http://www.varkon.com/dl_linux.htm) > > For every type of program on Windows, there are free alternatives for > Linux. I used to think that too. But it's not true. These freeware 'CAD' programs do not in any way compare to AutoCAD. There was a very convincing argument about this on rasfwr-j a few months ago. Long url: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&frame=right&th=cb57b0b655247da&seekm =slrn9i5qma.hk3.jsn%40ts016d40.chi-il.concentric.net#link1 Read the entire thread. > > and 99.99% of all games. > > I said "But for home productivity use, linux can do 99% of what you > can do with Windows". That clealry does not include games. And I don't > play many games, so I can't say much about it. But note that there are > alternatives to Direct X on linux: > > http://www.transgaming.com/ > http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2001/09/21/sdl.html > http://sourceforge.net/projects/dxglwrap The problem is, linux emulation etc. doesn't keep up with product revisions. I.e. by the time they get it right and working a new version (and all the associated games / software) have moved on to the next version. > > > for home productivity use, linux can do 99% of what you can do with > > > Windows, and it does it much better in most cases. If you need to > > > exchange files with Windows users, that isn't really a problem: xls > > > and .rtf programs work quite well in Linux, and if you just can't > > > live without MS Office (.doc, .ppt, .etc), there is always Open > > > Office http://www.openoffice.org/ which gives you file compatibility > > > with MS Office. > > > > Ew. Get your micro$oft office off of me. > > You lost me here. Notepad is better in every way.
