i'm glad this is a newbie list or i would have to FLAME you
to death. heh heh.
linux, is better in overall DESIGN than the Windows OS as
far as memory management and less-likely-to-crash goes.
support for linux? not so hot. quite simply, it's not a
commercial product so it's not going to get commercial
support.
now, about that netscape/star office thing....
netscape, for the past i don't know how many years, has
been written to be optimized for that 'other' OS. and
besides, linux was never really meant to be all lush with
all these new rich features like multimedia and crap like
that. think about it...it's basically UNIX. it was all text
based stuff foir quite a while.
star office? CRAP. quite simply. why are you using it?
that's what you really need to think about man. it does
SOME things really nice but other things? it just plain
SUCKS at. it's not a bad piece of software, but there's a
LOT to be desired. just because it's made by Sun and it's
free doesn't mean it's going to kick ass.
the whole thing about whether you need to start linux is
best explained something like this...
you're hungry and you wanna eat. you can do two
things...spend the money to go and get some pre-fab
Mc'Donalds crap which tastes not bad but still isn't quite
what you want (windows). OR, you can go to the store, grab
yourself a nice fatty cookbook (o'reilly) with all sorts of
recipes and go and buy real burgers and spuds for about the
same money as that king-sized fast food crap and start
making your own scrummy burgers and steak fries at home
(linux)! is nice, no?
if you want to be all nice and comfy, then keep using ME.
it doesn't make you dumb. no one's going to CARE. it's
simply your CHOICE. if you want help then you've come to
the right place. if you want to complain? well...you know
the answer to that.
DOWNLOAD, UNTAR, CONFIG, and COMPILE my friend. :)
p.s. i'm not trying to sound like a dick either.
On Monday 14 May 2001 01:27, tazmun wrote:
> Hi all.....just a quickie question that has been bugging
> me. I was under the impression that the Linux OS was a
> more efficient program then windows....but the only 2
> programs I have for true comparison since I run them on
> both OS's is Star Office & Netscape 4.7. The windows OS
> unfortunately kicks linux ass oh so terribly bad! Does
> this mean I don't have the OS correctly configured or is
> this typical behaviour? Oh yeah, I'm still running the
> Mandrake 7.1 version waiting for the 8.0 to hit the
> stores and windows ME on a 850 PIII based system with a
> promise card running 66 dma hard drives. I know I had
> problems when I check the option for (I can't quote
> exactly what it was called)maximizing hard drive
> performance. It noted that problems with this are common
> and suggests that you don't try to use this option. Any
> thoughts on this subject??
>
> Thanks Taz
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