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- DigitalPioneer, on 07/12/2008, -0/+2Bah, what is this? Grossly inaccurate. It calls in myths and long since outdated arguments against Linux, and outright lies in favor of windows and mac. For instance, the claim that installing Linux is a long and painful process, which drives users to windows which installs in 10-15 minutes, giving them a fully-functioning OS. This is outdated, since I've been using Linux for close to two years, and have only once had trouble with installation, and that was on Gentoo; and also a complete lie, since it often takes hours to install windows, and once you do, you are rewarded with a driverless OS containing... Uhhh... Hold on, there's gotta be something in there... AH! YES! Calculator and Spider Solitaire!! Ooohh, Notepad too. Impressive.
1. "Nothing works out-of-the-box"
This is an excellent argument against windows, given the fact that after installation, you have NO useful software. Nearly every modern Linux distro ships with full suites of office, graphics, multimedia, networking, gaming (simple, but functional), etc. software. Oh... And 99% of the drivers work out-of-the-box. Graphics and WiFi might give you some trouble, but you have to go hunt down drivers for them in windows too.
2. "Too many distros"
OK, having once been a Linux noob myself, I understand. The distros can provide a lot of confusion. But with Ubuntu emerging as the well-known face of Linux to the masses (for better or for worse) this is becoming less of a problem.
3. "Archaic documentation"
You have a bit of a point here... Linux documentation can be difficult, but once you get past the initial shock of using manpages, it's quite often very usable. As for outside the command line, KDE has plenty of documentation easily accessible from the About menu of any K* program. As for GNOME and others, I can't speak for them since I'm an avid KDE user, and never spent much time in anything else. - dansy, on 07/12/2008, -0/+2Total *****-up article - also misses the main problem in desktop Linux right now - which is the lack of quality control on all the major hardware configurations available ...
- Peterix, on 07/12/2008, -0/+1Windows which installs in 10-15 minutes...
This was never true. I can get an install down to ~25 minutes (apps, drivers and everything), but that's with everything prepared, a slimmed down install image and apps in virtual layers.
Stuff needed: nLite, Altiris SVS, apps preinstalled in virtual layers , a few days to prepare everything - hunt down updates (time spent updating = time spent installing) and drivers. And add time to learn how to do all this stuff.
You might as well learn how to set up a Linux terminal server and use that instead... add one lousy install of virtual XP and you're set.
Obviously, I'm talking about a bit larger-scale thing here than a single desktop. One desktop Windows install from vanilla XP image takes up to a day.
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