"Andre John Cruz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I do hope that us, the open source community, would stand up and take > notice of these complaints. Of course all of us can say that the > systems admin must have been sitting on his rear end and doing nothing > about the issues -- after all, most of the solutions for these are > probably a Google search away. But then, why do these things *just > work* in Windows land, but not in Linux land? Hardware support is of > course a hairy issue -- the open source community needs the full > cooperation of hardware manufacturers to be able to pull things > off. But for the others -- it shouldn't take a Google search to > resolve problems as basic as these. I would be longing for that day > when users can just use Linux and not worry about being resourceful in > order to fix issues or problems.
I'm tempted to say `stop longing, start hacking' here, but that might also pose yet another problem. Actually teh community *does* notice these complaints; just do a bug report search on the aforementioned packages and you'll see some bugs that are more or less like the OP's. Some of the bugs are definitely fixed (which is why I now enjoy my Linux experience now even better than, say, 3 scant years ago) while others are still languishing. For such bugs, they definitely need some help. ;-) I think the reason why some the of `Just Works'(TM) things in Windows just work is because these features were designed exactly with Windows in mind, and porting most of these to Linux would be just as hard as trying to train a dog to stand on its hind feet all day long. Therefore, these `just work' things aren't simply there by accident; they are there because they are designed to be there, to work for a well-defined use on that particular system. A thoughtless port of those to our fold would be, well, quite a thoughtless act. Cheers, Zakame -- Zak B. Elep [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
