IF Fedora Core 2 settles all the issues I wrote (I doubt however since I did not try I cannot say) THEN .. Yeah ... that is the whole point! In terms of user usability etc .... Linux is ONLY reaching user usability NOW!! MS have had a VERY good user usability since Windows 2000. Always ASSUMING that FC2 is as good as Win2000 in terms of user usability!
regards, David Vella - GFI Software Ltd. - www.gfi.com Messaging, Content Security & Network security software GFI: FAXmaker - LANguard - MailSecurity - DownloadSecurity ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Raphael Borg Ellul Vincenti Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 10:54 AM To: Malta Linux User Group - general list Subject: Re: [LINUX.ORG.MT] Linux/Windows >From what I am reading... try and use an updated distro. Try Fedora Core 2. David Vella wrote: Hi All, I just turned full time Linux (RH9) on my home PC a month ago however I still use Win2k at work. I guess I can say I am a Win power user and a basic Linux user. Before that I installed Linux last month, it was only in 1998 that I had used it last (RH7x) and I must say that it has improved a LOT from the usability side. Anyway, so at home I need mostly a web browser, irc client, email client and IM (MSN/ICQ) client. For IM I tried both Gaim and also AMSN. Amsn sucks UI wise and Gaim is good. I needed to install Gaim - just that took me a week or so (just evenings) of downloading rpm's and sources. A lot of dependencies and at some point I was just going to throw the towel however I persisted. Now it is working - except that receiving files does not work. I still think that the Linux I have (RH9 - KDE) is not yet available for the home user. I try to imagine my gf use it .. And that terrorizes me - no thanks .. I don't want to spend my free time supporting a linux machine. I still didn't try to connect by USB stick, my P800 or my Clie to my RH9 ... Do not even know if such drivers exist for them, does USB work well on Linux? I mean .. Is it really plug and play? I am scared of trying them out ... Ohhh ... And when it comes to server configuration, the default tools provided by KDE suck .. only webmin saves the day. My Kmail email client still crashes, and has some quit quirky issues, still cannot find a decent email client. Best email no-frills emails client out there is MS Outlook Express .. From what I saw obviously. Why is it that from all the Linux email clients I used, they persisted into adding the signature at the VERY end of the email (i.e. after all the replies etc...).... When browsing using Mozilla my fonts do not show well .. May need to get reading glasses soon it seems. The User Interface of linux applications is 'designed' by geek devs. Sorry .. But in most cases, geek devs are good for development and not for usability. Do any standards exists as how to program user interfaces with usability in mind? Also .. Why is it that by default, when you click a window title bar it rolls up instead of maximizing/sizing it? YES .. I KNOW that just because Windows does that then it does not mean that Linux interfaces has to be like that .. However .. Hey, if you want to start 'migrating' users from Windows to Linux then you have to make the process as less painful as possible. Too much is expected from home users (non-linux geeks). Why not have a Linux distro/app which absracts the Linux file folders view and makes them look like windows ? No /sbin and stuff .. It CANNOT be expected that Normal home users learn everything from scratch. Microsoft won already in that respect, what Linux should do at this point is to make itself look and FEEEELL much more than windows!! Basically .. Same look and FEEL (notice CAPS) however totally different internals. Just some rants and raves .. Which can go on for ever ... (boring mode) regards, David Vella - GFI Software Ltd. - www.gfi.com Messaging, Content Security & Network security software GFI: FAXmaker - LANguard - MailSecurity - DownloadSecurity -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ramon Casha Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 9:59 AM To: Malta Linux User Group - general list Subject: Re: [LINUX.ORG.MT] Linux/Windows On Thursday 27 May 2004 08:42, Raphael Borg Ellul Vincenti wrote: The problem as I see it with the standardization of RPMs is that different distros have different dependencies for the same rpm. Precisely... and that's where the main work lies. They *could* make RPMs distribution-independent. It would take some coordinated effort though. BTW.... the added traffic on this mailing list is a welcome change. LOL yes. One moment it's as if the list was lifeless, the next a zillion new messages fall on my mailbox like a nice soft feather tied to a truckload of bricks. 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