Linux not ready for the desktop? Give me a break! (NewsForge)
Posted Apr 14, 2003 15:43 UTC (Mon) by
novi (guest, #10633)
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Linux not ready for the desktop? Give me a break! (NewsForge)
The article is right.
Linux is very well ready for desktop applications. It offers the comfort
of a fully tunable Destop Environment, which you cannot find on
Microsoft-Systems.
Further it gives you the possibility to ease you daily work through
user-adjustable configuations and scripting possibilities. On Windows
Systems you need various $oftware products to finally "never" achieve the
same productivity.
Approaches made by "Cygwin" are already a big step to port this
productivity to Windows platforms, but if you reach this step, the you
are really nearby to become a Linux user.
The bigger problem is if users can find the same software on a new
OP-System. And the answer is and will be "NO". Except some basic tools
there is different software. Be ready and willing to explorer those new
software products. Sooner or later you will find out about the advantage
of this freedom.
And one last thing. Let me point out that it can be a somewhat huge
problem to change from on Microsoft System to another Microsoft System
(eg. Win95->WinNT or Win98->Win2000 or Win2000->WinXP). My experience is
that those changes are rather bigger that those when changing the version
of your Linux distribution or when even changing your Linux distribution
itself.
Find out about Linux. Sooner or later you will be happy you started.
Novi
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