Linux Desktop Readiness Thread

[karellen]

I see no chance for Ubuntu or any other distribution. Contrasted to Linux Windows or OSX is for the most everyday tasks more performant, ergonomic, flexible and became over the last years more and more smoothly.

The available Windows applications, the GUI appearanceare or colorfull splash screens are matter of no consequence.

Linux ist still a big construction lot and even basic things for a basic desktop pc are not working as it should be. I don't know what the all the Linux developers are doing the day long? I'm sure they are working on big things like a new 4KS-EBC Protocoll for XSKCD.

I Installed Ubuntu 7.04 some time ago and it was worse. Such as? The Rythmplayer needs up to 50% CPU on a P4-1,6Ghz. Or the Firefox Browser have scrolling problems which are bog down the system. Such a OS is useless. As I mentioned other distributions are not much better.

The community of the majority is useless too. The most users there have no clue and give trivial answers to everythng in order to push up their number of posts under their avatar.

so why don't you just stick with what works best for you?...

[Billy_McBong]

Linux ist still a big construction lot and even basic things for a basic desktop pc are not working as it should be

such as what?
it is very easy to browse the web, check email, use open office, ext. what basic things dont work?(and all systems have problems just because something doesn't work right for you doesn't mean everyone else has the same problem)

The community of the majority is useless too. The most users there have no clue and give trivial answers to everythng in order to push up their number of posts under their avatar.

the people here try there best they are not paid to help you, we do it out of the goodness of our hearts

also you have 0 beans which i think means you haven't posted in support category asking for help so how can you say we are useless when you haven't even asked us to help you solve your problem

[KIAaze]

I see no chance for Ubuntu or any other distribution. Contrasted to Linux Windows or OSX is for the most everyday tasks more performant, ergonomic, flexible and became over the last years more and more smoothly.

The available Windows applications, the GUI appearanceare or colorfull splash screens are matter of no consequence.

Linux ist still a big construction lot and even basic things for a basic desktop pc are not working as it should be. I don't know what the all the Linux developers are doing the day long? I'm sure they are working on big things like a new 4KS-EBC Protocoll for XSKCD.

I admit that some things are better in Windows or OSX, but GNU/Linux has one big advantage: It gives you freedom.
And apart from some hardware problems, I find Ubuntu very usable for everyday use. And it's always improving.
Actually, it allows me to do things that I couldn't do with Windows (or not as easily at least) like ssh -X, sed, grep, ... I need it for work!

The community of the majority is useless too. The most users there have no clue and give trivial answers to everythng in order to push up their number of posts under their avatar.

Maybe you should try the gentoo forums then. ^^
Otherwise, there are always the general GNU/Linux forums like linuxquestions.org or linuxforums.org/.

And as said by the previous poster:
The people here try there best they are not paid to help you, we do it out of the goodness of our hearts.
I haven't tried the paid support for Ubuntu yet, but maybe it's better.

[Frak]

I use Windows and OS X daily, ATM, I find them better because I have work to get done that cannot be done in Ubuntu. But Ubuntu is well on its way to fame.

[Anonii]

I see no chance for Ubuntu or any other distribution. Contrasted to Linux Windows or OSX is for the most everyday tasks more performant, ergonomic, flexible and became over the last years more and more smoothly.

The available Windows applications, the GUI appearanceare or colorfull splash screens are matter of no consequence.

Linux ist still a big construction lot and even basic things for a basic desktop pc are not working as it should be. I don't know what the all the Linux developers are doing the day long? I'm sure they are working on big things like a new 4KS-EBC Protocoll for XSKCD.

I Installed Ubuntu 7.04 some time ago and it was worse. Such as? The Rythmplayer needs up to 50% CPU on a P4-1,6Ghz. Or the Firefox Browser have scrolling problems which are bog down the system. Such a OS is useless. As I mentioned other distributions are not much better.

The community of the majority is useless too. The most users there have no clue and give trivial answers to everythng in order to push up their number of posts under their avatar.

I would quote and comment on this, 'till I saw this "I don't know what the all the Linux developers are doing the day long?" and this "The community of the majority is useless too.".

[KIAaze]

I would quote and comment on this, 'till I saw this "I don't know what the all the Linux developers are doing the day long?" and this "The community of the majority is useless too.".

I don't understand the first sentence either.
But in the second one, he might have meant the Windows community...

[uputer]

Thanks to everyone and anyone who was sympathetic and/or tried to help. Thanks to those who didn't accuse me of being a 'troll' and realized the frustrations and perspective (of a user having difficulties learning Linux).

Even though I've had much confusion with it, I don't want to give up. I just have to consider the time I'll need to spend on it and try to set aside some time accordingly. I agree, a dual boot of Windows and Linux is a good idea but a better one I plan on using is having two computers side-by-side (at my disposal). One machine will be left on Linux, even if I have more than one distro installed. The other machine will be a Windows system. That way, I can experiment and use Linux on one and if I need to do standard stuff, I can let the Windows machine do it. But, the point is, the frustration should be a bit less when I have something to fall back on.

However, make no mistake about it, the plan is to gradually move over to using Linux primarily but I hope the idea (of having two computers) will make the adjustment a bit less painful and allow the substantial learning curve. So thank you to all who wanted to help despite my complaints. Thanks in advance to those who try in subsequent posts.

[AWC]

I must agree with you sir. I have been tying to just install real player and it is not very cut an dry. I have no idea why I can't just download a program and simply click install. I am not a Windows fan but Ubuntu has a long way to go to be as user friendly as Windows. I should be able to dowload and install but I can't even find step by step instructions on how to install realplayer. I am frustrated.

[prizrak]

PFFT. I just switched my g/f to Gutsy and she couldn't be happier. She has no more problems adjusting to Ubuntu than she would adjusting to Mac (which she wanted to get at some point).

[aysiu]

While you can download a file a click to install it, using the repositories system (which is also point-and-click) is actually easier than tracking down an installer file from somewhere on the internet.

That said, if you're using Ubuntu 7.04, try downloading this file and double-clicking it.