[Gllug] Linux users - sign petition to say you use BBC web site!

[Peter Childs]

On 07/11/2007, Jason Clifford <jason at ukfsn.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 07:55 +0000, Peter Childs wrote:
> > 6. does not required repeated rebooting to install the slightest of
> > updates or due to an application failure, The old firefox dies and
> > takes the entire os with it......
>
> Tell that to people who experience an application failure which takes
> out the X server and therefore all IO so that they are unable to do
> anything except reboot if they don't have sshd or similar running and
> another computer on the LAN through which to connect and kill X.
>
> Then tell them they cannot play the games and other non-Office
> applications that were the real reason they bought the PC.
>
> Windows and Linux are just the OS. People don't really use the OS. They
> use applications and that's what they care about. With most Linux
> distros the issue is a little confused because they include so many
> applications but the fact remains that people using Windows are not
> really using Windows - they are using the set of applications they have
> installed on top of it. That's what they really care about.
>
>
which is what i said at the start of this thread.

Why then to install practically any app do i have to reboot windows at least
once (usually twice) but to install it under Linux it just works....

Really this is not an os problem but a application vendor problem a thing
windows has never excelled at (shared libraries etc). (When compared to RPM
or DEB)

It depends on weather you consider the framework for installing apps (ie
dpkg/rpm) to be part of the os or not?

I will not saying linux is perfect its not, its just a lot better than
windows. However Windows has come a long way since the rewrite with NT/XP

Peter.
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