Hi Don,
What I get sick of most under Linux is when I download programs that needs
to be compiled it seems like most of the time you never have all the right
librarys
to compile it. Then you got to go out on the web to find it. Then when you
try to install them sometimes the system don't want you to because its trying
to replace files that some other program depends on.
It seems with windows that most of the time I just have to unzip it or get
a VB runtime Mod.
I do like the pkg stuff with linux. Most of the time they will work. sometimes
you need to get somekind of lib mod.
Doug
Welker Donald P NPRI wrote:
> > Jason, not to be too personal, but if you can't get Linux to
> > run faster,
> > longer and do all this with less effort in Linux than
> > Windows, you are the
> > one with the problem, not the O/S you're comparing.
>
> I respectfully disagree. It doesn't take much more than a set of compatible
> device drivers to make Windows run pretty evenly, it's just that people who
> buy cheap hardware seldom get such drivers. The Windows experience also
> includes software (such as multimedia and entertainment) that stresses those
> drivers and tends to cause such crashes. Maybe now that Microsoft has
> stablilized their driver spec and vendors only have to write one Windows
> driver things will get better (I wonder what drove them to do that...)
>
> Getting Linux to work with an application set and keeping it patched still
> requires more computerese than most lay people are willing and able to
> endure. Unforunatly many of those who are familiar with Linux have by the
> very nature of things lost touch with this fact, unless they routinely
> support computer novices.
>
> > I would recommend a steady diet of intelligent, meaningful and thought
> > provoking conversation, followed up with some IN DEPTH proof
> > that you have
> > Linux experience, and then write something worth reading.
>
> Why? He didn't need to spend several weeks reading HOWTO's in order to make
> Windows display a GUI, did he? He can't read the HOWTO's until he gets his
> browser working, can he? Oh, and Micron will give him free Unix training
> with his new computer, except that it's written in Shockware and there's no
> Shockwave player for Linux, darn the luck...
>
> > I only use Windows (any flavor) because my company GAVE it to
> > me and their
> > proprietary apps run only on it. Otherwise, I use only software that
> > someone can see where it's broke (i.e. open source software,
> > and this means
> > free most of the time as well).
>
> There's that thing about applications again. What are they for, anyway?
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Windows-It Kicks The Penguin's Ass!
LINUX-Applications on linux just seem 2nd rate after using
Windows, It's memory hungry and slow!
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