On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 04:01:03PM +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote:
> Haha, cant surf the web in linux, you should be a comedian.
>
> heres a tip
> www.mozilla.org
>
> most dists install netscape by default.
>
> I honestly cant think of anything windows has over linux.
> maybe divx, ill give windows divx for now as libavifile is kinda
> shakey. Windows has mastered crashing, and successfully bogging
> down any hardware combo you can throw at it (is windows 2000 any
> faster to you than win 311 was?)
Can't say I've tried installing Win3 on my PIII, but 2000 and IE is
considerably faster and more stable than Linux and Netscape or Mozilla.
To be fair Linux is probably more stable up until the point
that you attempt to bring up a web page.
Konqeror is getting close but there are still a few things that need to
be ironed out. Mozilla will probably be usable when they get a release but
it's certainly pre-beta at present. Netscape 4 is a joke. I'll use
Lynx or wget if I need to quickly look up a URL without rebooting.
At present if I'm going to be doing any serious web browsing I
need to reboot. Not because IE can render things that the others can't,
but because Linux still lacks a stable and responsive web browser (not
counting Lynx and friends).
A stable web browser is probably the only thing I would need to move to
Linux full time (fortunatly I'm not a gamer).
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