On 10/31/05, Richard Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > *it would be nice if linux really worked with more than 1 of my 10 printers > ( 2 of which there is no excuse for lack of support) > *it would be nice if it supported w/o hacking all of the features of my > laptop .... (though not a HUGE deal)
These are borderline. On the one hand, this isn't so much a technical issue, it's a matter of vendors not writing drivers for Linux and not opening their firmware so that others can. But on the other hand, the OS has to run hardware or its not a very useful OS. > *a presentation software package (like powerpoint) that worked !!! Okay... so why not use PowerPoint? > * it would be nice if i could handle excel and access files better How much better can you get at handling Excel and Access files than by using Excel and Access to do it? > * better video editing would be nice But not a requirement. > * REAL data recovery software (all the good packages are m$ dos and or M$ > windows based) and on that I wouldnt mind shelling out $,$$$ but it had > better work the first time just like the packages that run in/on M$ do. What data do you want to recover? I'm willing to bet that, on this issue, Linux is far better than Windows in exactly the right ways. > * email though in reality I dont like the M$ versions either I end up using > 3, OE (using now, on laptop) outlook and pine, and using all 3 is getting > can we say OLD!!! What's that got to do with Linux on the desktop? > * a FAST simple image viewer like acdsee, though in reality i have not tried > out any in the last 6 months or so .... so they could have gotten better I've run ACDSee on Linux (if you *really* need your image handler to say "ACDSee" in the title bar), and Gwenview has been just as good as ACDSee for longer than 6 months now. You can't start pulling out all the applications you like one by one and say, it's not on Linux, therefore Linux isn't "ready for the desktop". For one thing, the argument you're responding to is that there are no longer any *technical* considerations holding back desktop Linux. > * full support for 2 monitors Yes. Linux (X.org) does that. And: It's "MS". There is no dollar sign in the name. -todd -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
