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- rkalla, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Keith,
Exactly how I feel. It's getting better at things it's always been good at (low level hardware support like motherboards, RAID, network cards) but still not good at the things it never was good at. GUI administration wizards, new devices, graphics configuration. The graphics configuration I can't figure out for the life of me. Yes there are 100s of graphics cards out there, but how much of the market that *wants* to play with the hardware excelleration on linux would be helped if an ATI and nVidia wizard were written for X? Like 70-80%? I'm really not sure why these things aren't tackled other than I can understand that no one developer benefits hugely from tackling this issue. - rkalla, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I agree on the surface it really reads like "jesus enough already", but it's the details that make these stories important. Almost all of the "switch to Linux" stories I read said nothing about playing movies from youtube, using your ipod, or some of the other "day to day" tasks I touched on. They just covered "yep GAIM works great, Evolution is OK and OpenOffice rocks"... I agree *that* is not helpful. What I tried to cover in this review is what Joe-user will do with his computer. What will work out of the box and what walls he will run into; but more importantly, what happens when he runs into those walls?
I hope there may have been a detail or two in my review that someone would see and think "Oh I do that all the time, Linux would drive me nuts" or some other people saying "Everything I do sounds like it works out of the box, great I'll switch!"
But reviews like this aren't for everyone, they are intended for people on the fence about switching, not people committed to a platform. It's just noise to them. - XVampireX, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Hmm... Tried Banshee? http://banshee-project.org/Main_Page
- estvir, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1how many of these stories do we need ? yes, we know you can succesfully switch from xp to ubuntu, just like you can vice versa.
- swimmingbird67, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1today i just five free Ubuntu discs in the mail.
- KeithKimber, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Although my computer kit is not as sophisticated, my experience of Ubuntu is very similar, to my great frustration. I've wanted to switch over full time to Linux for the past seven years, but at each and every advancing stage of hardware and software development there have been stumbling blocks - notably printers. Even the printer/scanner I bought with a Linux logo on the box and a set of files on the install CD had an inferior installer, and the scanner doesn't work as promised, and so on and so on.... Just a bit more consideration for end users, who want to support free OSS is needed. It reminds me of the times when Fair Trade coffee was too crap to drink, a great inhibition from regular purchase. Thankfully, the product has transformed itself and coffee is now as good if not better than the main brands. Who could bring off that kind of coup with free OSS?
- rkalla, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Yes absolutely. Totem, Amarok, Banshee, Mplayer and the video player for KDE that slips my mind right now.
If you meant specifically for iPod connectivity I followed all the guides I could, the problem is what I would equate to NTFS support. Read-only is supported great and has likely been there for a while, but full writing/updating/syncing is such a pain. Forget gtkpod as far as a usable application for a "normal" users goes. It's one of those super-functional super-detailed no-perceptable-work-flow type programs where you can toast your iPod very quickly if you just start clicking around.
Amarok was the best and even then it's support was not that great, but it did sync a new episode onto my iPod. Is it just me or has KDE always been first at getting great hardware support? (Remeber when K3D came out? Remember when Amarok first came out? AFAIK these were first-movers of their caliber in those arenas)
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