On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 04:47, Eric Livingston wrote: > I'm curious regarding the penetration of linux as a comprehensive solution > for all computing tasks in a normal day. i.e. what percentage of Linux users > are 100% linux, or even 100% Gentoo for that matter. > I am a hardware guy, so I'm not sure my vote counts much here.
I run 3 machines at home. 1 is Gentoo, one XP, one ME. I am not 100% Linux, for two reasons: 1) I have to keep two home machine running Windows to do my composing and recording. There are no Linux apps that come close to Pro Tools for functionality, and I have another machine running GigaStudio and Reaktor that are Windows apps. No way to run them under Linux. 2) My main home machine is Linux, for doing email mostly. I browse on this machine, but out-of-the-box Linux setup is not very good for browsing the web. Gentoo doesn't some set up for any form of audio, and I need Alsa for my recording work, so KDE and Gnome environments don't work well for me without customization. Mozilla doesn't even come set up to view a pdf file on-line without configuration. It's just too difficult for us end-user types, and I don't get that anyone in the Linux development world is all that interested in making a distribution that solves these problems out of the box, so I guess it won't happen. As I said though, I'm not a software guy, so it's difficult for me to get things configured. Since this is the case I end up doing most 'fun' browsing from my Windows XP machine. That said, when some distribution out there takes us end-user types seriously and fixes these problems, then I'll probably go 100% Linux for my day-in/day-out computer. I'll have Windows XP around for the next few years at least to run Pro Tools and other Windows audio apps, so I have no reason to do the work myself. I'd rather write music than configure computers. As for work, we tried to switch, but couldn't. The problem is no M$ Office compatible applications that are 100% compatible with Word and Excel, so we have to run the real ones. I haven't looked into Crossover Office yet, but plan too. - Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
