On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Eddie <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have tried to use linux as a desktop and back out. It just seemed > to me that everything that can be done w/ windows w/ a few clicks > needed extreme effort to work around in linux. > ie. All my friends uses msn messenger, then I would use pidgin, but > then I can use webcam > And then setting up webcam on linux is another story. > > Back when I was trying linux, there are tons of bittorrent clients for > windows but there was only azureus as a more viable option. I can't > use a software that I like. > > I couldn't update my harmony remote. > > I couldn't use virtualdub to compress my video at that time ( I am > sure there were something else, but I gave up) > > Those coupon printing sites doesn't work with linux. > > iTune is another hassle. > > At the end, I feel I really OS really doesn't matter to me, why spend > so much time on something I don't care, I will just use windows. > > If you want a server, it's a totally different story, you can setup > LAMP stack in no time, where as a lot of php opensource projects did > not test well w/ windows. > > > > On May 8, 7:15 pm, Peter Becker <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 09/05/10 05:27, Blanford wrote:> I started trying to get people to use > systems like Ubuntu for years > > > with little success. > > > We Linux people must resign ourselves to the fact that most American's > > > simply cannot handle products that are not commercial. > > > > I'm not in America, my playing fields are Germany and Australia. But my > > feeling is that the largest problem is a fear of being different. To > > some extent this is actually not all irrational: being different means > > you can't ask the next person for help. But most of it seems to be a > > less rational fear of the new. > > > > To some extent I think Apple's success has helped Linux. By moving the > > market from one having one OS choice into having two, the option of > > using something entirely else seems less far fetched. Additionally the > > gap in noob-friendliness between Ubuntu and Windows seems to grow every > > half year. And last but not least: the priorities of the users shift > > more and more onto the web, desktop applications get less important, > > which leads to less lock-in regarding the OS choice. > > > > As a result I find people accepting the Ubuntu choice as a reasonable > > option. Most of those people would have considered the whole Linux idea > > ridiculous not long ago. Most still decide against it (the MS Office > > lock in being a common reason), but at least the idea is taking serious. > > And I have converted some, none of which ever looked back. > > > Hei, a newcomer is here :) I using Linux user recently, I think it doesn't matter what OS we used to, because its based on whats we need. Like when I want to set up a web server, I will use Linux-based OS like Ubuntu server and using Win OS when I wanna do something else like playing a games. -- Blog: http://muhammadghazali.web.id/blog GTalk: muhammadghazali2480 Twitter: http://twitter.com/muhghazali JUG-bandung : http://groups.google.com/group/jug-bandung -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
