Any person can install it on any computer without any problems
Anyone can use it once it's already been installed and configured
Every commercial application works on it
Nothing--it's a nonsensical term
It automatically detects most hardware without the need to hunt down drivers
It comes preinstalled on computers so novice users don't have to install it
It's suitable to the needs of most beginner users but not necessarily to most intermediate ones
Windows and nothing else... not even Mac OS X
Works on my desktop
Other (please explain)
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This kind of stuff isn't particularly easy in Windows either. All of us at some time or another has gotten an error message about not finding a dll file. But it seems easier to fix stuff like that ourselves just because we've been solving those kinds of problems for 16+ years, going back to at least Windows 3.0 or so. Ever try to use Windows 1.0 or 2.0? I think not. Those people are few and far between. I sure didn't. I was on a Mac!
I can't believe what this is about. Get real!
DJ
PS Sorry, couldn't rest the bad joke.
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Not to sound like mean or anything, but my mom uses linux at her house and she is one of those people who can never do command line or install, but Fedora 6 is very stable so it works. My little bro (aged 11) can do all tech support. When I come over i see him solving dependencies(amongst swearing "what the heck is GTK?!). Linux just takes more.
Linux user 10 years.
I used Windows 1.0, 2.0, 3.1, Workgroups, 386, 486, NT, and of course DOS.
I've also used Mac OS 7, 8, 9, 10.1/2/3/4 and I've used a developer version of 10.5
They all have their downfalls
Linux can have missing dependencies
Windows has DLL Hell
Mac's Darwin Kernel can corrupt upon a Delta or Combo update, causing a Kernel Panic, and forcing a reinstall (Mac is still my fav)
They all develop, they all have problems, nothing is perfect.
i thought it was obvious that the linux developers were working really hard on a text editor for emacs! ..
idk what they are really working on... maybe it is gimp 2.4? kde 4? openoffice 2.3? just to name a few well known projects.
After 47 reboots in last 10 hours due to hanging ubuntu (newly installed), I decided to install fedora. It is difficult to say what is the reason for unstablity; sometimes it happend in SW update, most of the time without visible reason.
Win XP used to run in this same machine without problems for couple years. Ther reason the change to Linux was, that my PC (Lenovo) dealer in Beijing installed me pirate copy of XP and obviously it is not good behaviour (felt guilty all the time; and I cannot get security update anymore.
I was dreaming to decrease my "IT manager" work using "state of art" Linux instead of WinXP but opposite happened: computer is super-unstablie. WLAN does not find my basestation (all other devices find it without problems including my other XP (legal), MAC, Nokia 9300i and Nokia N75). Only Ubuntu have no idea of it.
Yes. I don't fix my cars anymore either, so priority is not to look under the hood anymore; including home computers.
I have to admit that Fedora has not started very well but it is stabile, not need for reboot if e.g. SW package is not downloading fast enough.
For you entertainment I list my favourity Operation systems: WinXP (realiable and stabile), MAC OS X (more fine tuning required but almost as stabile as Windows), and Symbian 60 (the best OS for mobile devices). Linux is not yet in the list; and Vista will stay away from my computers!
- good night!
- Jouni
Installing an unstable build for a new (I assume?) linux user seems a bit risky.
Since I get asked alot, I am originally from Ukraine but am Russian by nationality. My nick means specter in Russian.
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