Every year or so I have installed a Linux OS to see how intuitive they are.
For the last 2.5 years, I stuck with Ubuntu on my Dell D610 notebook. (generic hardware).
Was always disappointed with the result....secure wireless wouldn't work, fonts were crappy, printers wouldn't connect....etc etc.
But last nigth I installed Hardy 8.04 RC....and have been pleased to be able to get WPA wireless connected within 90 mins of installing
Still, the fonts are weird and I did have to futz with the router and manually adjust wireless settings unintuitively. Also had to download a couple of hundred MBs of updates straight after installing, to able to run grpahics and watch Dvds.
Still a ways to go before I think I'd make it my main OS running MS Office Pro on VM Ware or whatever.....(definitely need MS Office).
But I think with Microsoft's stuff up and disdain for the consumer, via Vista, Linux's time has come to capture a serious % of the desktop market.
MS's last qtrly profit was 2Billion. If they can't evolve an OS and computer end user experience to something less OS centric on those profits, then Bill Gates didn't learn why he was able to do what he did to IBM.
Here's to the Linux community.
For the last 2.5 years, I stuck with Ubuntu on my Dell D610 notebook. (generic hardware).
Was always disappointed with the result....secure wireless wouldn't work, fonts were crappy, printers wouldn't connect....etc etc.
But last nigth I installed Hardy 8.04 RC....and have been pleased to be able to get WPA wireless connected within 90 mins of installing
Still, the fonts are weird and I did have to futz with the router and manually adjust wireless settings unintuitively. Also had to download a couple of hundred MBs of updates straight after installing, to able to run grpahics and watch Dvds.
Still a ways to go before I think I'd make it my main OS running MS Office Pro on VM Ware or whatever.....(definitely need MS Office).
But I think with Microsoft's stuff up and disdain for the consumer, via Vista, Linux's time has come to capture a serious % of the desktop market.
MS's last qtrly profit was 2Billion. If they can't evolve an OS and computer end user experience to something less OS centric on those profits, then Bill Gates didn't learn why he was able to do what he did to IBM.
Here's to the Linux community.
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