[Gllug] Linux on Desktop

[Anthony Newman]

Christopher Hunter wrote:
> I saw it happen twice today - entirely unprovoked, running only MS
> software.  "Word" fell over during a "save" and took XP down to a
> reboot, and then later "Windows Update" caused a hang and crash.  It's
> just NOT ready for the desktop!

/me blames the hardware

Compared to the instability of Windows 98, 2000 and XP are remarkably 
stable; if not it's usually attributable to dodgy drivers IME.

It's the lack of a configurable multi-desktop solution that makes 
Xorg/Linux more attractive to me; I still go back to Windows on the odd 
occasion that someone has produced a website that fails to work 
correctly with Firefox/Iceweasel/whatever your distro calls it now.

You can't argue with the basically good user experience of Windows, nor 
the interoperability, but when you've tried something more controllable 
it's difficult to go back. I can understand why it's totally intractable 
to a n00b though, because of the lack of a standard interface, or 
predictable UI.

Vista, on the other hand, seems to be utterly shit and slow, despite my 
hardware vastly exceeding the published minimum requirements.


Ant
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