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terrence d'souza wrote:
> Are the test details available?. What were the
> users trying to do etc.
This was a test comparing various releases of Windows. I think this was
just around when Win2k came out. They didn't bother with Linux because
the test subject freaked out with just Windows.
> Too bad. U don't face up to reality U get sucked.
Nope. Whoever makes life easy wins. Which is why Microsoft rules the
software market, not IBM, DEC or Apollo.
> Which is precisely the point. There is nothing
> very wrong (problems are far fewer than windows)
> with the current Linux GUIs. It is awareness of
> issues which is lacking in users. It's the same
> old cpabaility/options v/s someone else decides
> what is best.
Linux leaves you mucking in the details for too long, keeping you from
getting your work done. Emacs and Vim both take weeks to get used to,
and in the end, neither can compare to Windows development environments
like Visual Studio or HTML Kit. All Emacs and Vim promise you is quick
keyboard shortcuts.
> pay for resources u want (not what MS wants).
> And it's Linux/QNX all the way in these.
I don't think so. Linux + X + GNOME/KDE is as bloated as Windows 2000
is, and much slower. Sure, Linux lets you choose what components you
want to put together, but if you add in the components that you can
expect on an average Windows desktop, Windows turns out to be way ahead
on performance. And Win2k is stable too -- no more blue screens. Rather,
my X crashes every few days because it doesn't know what to make of my
video card (which is listed as supported in X4.0, which I use). I've
even seen a system running just the console spontaneously reboot (3
times in one day once).
Gtk+ is horribly slow, and GNOME's panel is currently an ugly bloated
monster. Besides, GNOME/Gtk+ doesn't even have a consistent set of
keyboard mappings yet. Pressing Tab sometimes leads me to dead-ends that
I can't back out from, sometimes takes me to places that I should not be
able to access, like the sorting tabs in a list view, and never takes me
to the next tab in a tabbed dialog. I have no such problem navigating
under Windows -- it has the most consistent and comprehensive keyboard
support I've seen anywhere.
And Linux is supposed to be the OS of keyboard lovers.
GUIs suck anyway? Why don't we all go back to punch cards?
--
Kiran Jonnalagadda
http://lunateks.com
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