Richard Reynolds said: >> There >> are no more technical considerations. I mean, what more do people >> want?? What does Windows do that Linux doesn't??? > > ok so you asked for it, most are application or dystro issues, but > some > aren't and Im not talking about running windows IN linux to get these > to > work but as many just work in windows, figured its a place to start. > > *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)
Ask the printer manufactuerers why their printers aren't supported. Did you check http://www.linuxprinting.org ? If the manufacturers refuse to provide hardware information to Linux developers it's not the fault of Linux it's the fault of the manufacturer. > *it would be nice if it supported w/o hacking all of the features of > my > laptop .... (though not a HUGE deal) It supports all the features of my laptop. Your is obviously not an IBM. I check hardware support before buying it. For years I would not buy any adaptec scsi cards, and I told them so, because they refused to provide the programmers the information to support their hardware. Eventually the got the message and now Adaptec is well supported. I don't by any hardware if the manufacturer refuses do provide either Linux drivers or information that the programmers can use to write the drivers. I vote with my pocketbook for Linux. > *a presentation software package (like powerpoint) that worked !!! I haven't used it personally but I understand OpenOffice has a work alike for PowerPoint. > lets face > it when im at work trying to run one on linux and its not doing what I > want, > I look bad! or if one of the other people in the room says "hey why > didnt > you do" ... "like I did in powerpoint" again I look bad! > * it would be nice if i could handle excel and access files better, I've opened, modified and saved changes to Excel spreadsheets in Open Office, so I know that works! Technically though, it's not Linux, as Open Office also has a version for Windows, that I have tested. And it works on Excell spread sheets just fine. Access is a database, not a very good one, but a database nonetheless. We have a ton of different databases that work in Linux. We don't have access for Linux. > again I > cant say to my clients "sorry I dont run M$", and most dont understand > that > either excel is the wrong tool for the job or that access isnt a tool > :D I tell my clients all the time, I don't run Windows. The send me word attachments, Excel attachments never PowerPoint. I deal with all of them in Linux just fine. I do warn them about sending me html email. My spam filters usually put them into my spam mailbox, which will delay my response. But I can deal with them fine too. > * full support for my scanner (though really its close ....) I have only owned one scanner, and I gave it away before ever trying to make it work, so I can't respond to that. > * better video editing would be nice There must be some video editing software for Linux since most of the movie studios use Linux for doing preproduction work these days. I don't do it, so I can't get any more specific than that. But, I do know there is high quality video editing software for Linux. > * REAL data recovery software (all the good packages are m$ 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. I'm not sure what data recovery software your talking about. If you delete a file in Linux it's deleted. If you're talking about backup and recovery software, there is a large selection of Open Source and commercial software available for Linux and those that I've run and tested work well. > * 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!!! You have a ton of choices in Linux for how you read and respond to email. I'm using a web based email client right now, because it's the way I track the responsiveness of a service I provide to clients. I've used Pine and mutt, I've looked at others, some I liked, some I didn't. Outlook is one of the worse email clients I've ever had the misfortune to look at, but many people depend upon it for their daily correspondence. I run my own, and on occasion, clients mail servers and they are all highly reliable. More than I can say for Exchange. > * 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 Tracy already mentioned display. I'm somewhat partial to XV. It does a lot of nice things that display doesn't do for me. If I want to manipulate images I'm likely to use either Gimp or XV, depending upon how I want to manipulate the image. > * and though this is more of a dystro and ME problem, it would be nice > if I > could get rid of all of the server/multi user stuff. granted I like it > on a > few machines, but back to my laptop the only user is ME, if I am going > to do > something stupid im gona do it with or without having to type su - to > do > so!!! Maybe you should try Xandros. It's a very "Microsoft" like interface, suitable for people who are more comfortable with Microsoft Windows than X-windows. I installed it on a machine for my grandaughter, (she's 12) and she had absolutely no problem using it. > a note from experience > * a good FlightSim would be nice, and full support for 2 monitors and > my > joystick/flightstick whichamacallit (in the flightsim) Perhaps we need to do a presentation on Linux for Windows users. There seem to be a lot of misperceptions about what you can and can't do with Linux that still persist. -- Neil Schneider pacneil_at_linuxgeek_dot_net http://www.paccomp.com Key fingerprint = 67F0 E493 FCC0 0A8C 769B 8209 32D7 1DB1 8460 C47D Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government. - Jeremy Bentham, jurist and philosopher (1748-1832) -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
