[Gllug] Feedback from a disappointed Linux user

[Richard Jones]

See the forwarded message below. To be fair to Linux, the crashing/
hanging issue is down to the broken D-Link 650 wireless card. I tried
another Prism card in the machine and that worked fine.

I told him to go & buy a copy of Windows + Office from PC World which
I would install (since he bought the laptop second hand from a
company, he doesn't have a legal copy of Windows to reinstall on it,
which is where the whole RH issue came up from in the first place). It
was funny he was asking me as a Red Hat contractor to install an
illegal copy of a competitor's product!

Rich.

-- Forwarded message --

Well, I've tried, I really have. Don't get me wrong, the tab feature on the
browser's great & I'm sure loads of the functionality is superior, but, at
the end of the day I don't get half as much out of it as I do Windows. Plug
ins etc are impenetrable, file sharing is difficult, the office equivalent
suite seems to have less functionality and I'm constantly confronted with
oddities like not being able to drah & drop from the word equivalent to a
web form. You don't get error messages & it often just hangs. 

Doubtless you'll be disappointed in my rejection of linux in favour of big
bad MS, but from a user perspective Windows leaves RH standing. 

Now that we're over that - what are you doing tonight at 6.30? And do you
have an illegal copy of Windows ( does it have office etc ) 

-- End forwarded message --

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