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The Grumpy Editor's diagram editor followupThe Grumpy Editor's diagram editor followupPosted May 11, 2004 1:24 UTC (Tue) by miallen (guest, #10195)In reply to: The Grumpy Editor's diagram editor followup by alspnost Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's diagram editor followup I agree with alspnost. I think the Grumpy Editor is on to something interesting. It's virtually unheard of to get an objective review of anything in the tech world. Here's an idea; devise a list of office related software tasks and use that as a sort of benchmark. There should be 5 or 10 tasks like: user B receives email form user A with specs for wheel It makes me nervous to hear the Linux crowd talk about how great the Linux desktop is. The Linux desktop is good for simple things but there are serious holes.
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Linux hard to use? Posted May 11, 2004 3:33 UTC (Tue) by hathawsh (guest, #11289) [Link] This is drifting offtopic, but after battling Windows XP for a week, I'm now surprised when people say Linux is hard to use. I spent days trying to figure out how to do the following on a new Thinkpad:- Configure wireless networking. It simply refused to work. - Disable all listening ports (to avoid viruses) - Resize partitions - Map the function keys to virtual desktops I could buy extra software to do these things, but that means Windows is incomplete. With Linux, these core tasks are only keystrokes away once you have some guidance or experience, and there's so much guidance out there on the net. Once I finally gave up on Windows, I returned to the friendly world of Linux. Nearly all of the drivers for the hardware come with the distribution (including Intel Gigabit, an Atheros wireless card, USB device drivers, etc), along with simple tools to manage everything (iwconfig, netstat, ntfs/reiserfsprogs, KDE, and so on.) Unlike five years ago when I did a similar comparison, I found Linux significantly more usable than Windows. I think Linux is now ahead of Windows in ease of use, and that adoption is held up only by momentum. Linux has problems too, but I'm convinced that time spent learning how to solve a Linux problem is quicker and more fruitful than time spent learning proprietary solutions.
Linux hard to use? Posted May 11, 2004 14:17 UTC (Tue) by rjamestaylor (guest, #339) [Link] Solution: use Linux (etc) for networking and Internetworking. Use Windows, unplugged when possible, physically firewalled when not, to do other things.Continue this task separation until
Linux hard to use? Posted May 11, 2004 23:32 UTC (Tue) by miallen (guest, #10195) [Link] Map the function keys to virtual desktops Wow! I thought I invented that. I use F3 to go "left" and F5 to go "right".
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