[Nottingham] Interesting reading

[Going It Alone]

A mildly interesting (flawed) experiment.  As usual there are the many
attempts to draw comparisons with windows and windows based
applications.  If you want to use windows apps designed for windows
then use windows, it's as simple as that.

GNU/Linux was never conceived to be a windows killer (Why people
insist on pushing that particular agenda is still a mystery to me),
it's to provide an alternative choice and as such to me, it fulfills
that criteria.

I am pleased with the responses in that they are not filled with the
usual rants and raves from the zealots on both sides of the op/sys
divide.

On 11 February 2011 14:33, Jason Irwin <jasonirwin73 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I got sent this in another list and I think it makes for some interesting
> reading; the PC Pro magazine staff swapped to Ubuntu for the day:
> http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2011/02/10/live-blog-running-pc-pro-on-ubuntu/
>
> I was expecting this to end up being yet another Linux-bashing piece, how it
> isn't ready for the real world, blah-de-blah and indeed that's how it seems
> to start off.  Around midday the tone changes, people are still having the
> odd niggle and some things are just easier with Windows-only apps, but they
> seem to be giving Ubuntu a fair shake of the stick and come out really
> liking that way it does certain things.  Most of their plus points could be
> made of any Linux distro I think.
>
> They do wonder would such an experiment have been even possible in the other
> direction and I think it is impressive that they just chucked Ubuntu onto
> what kit they had lying around and got through the day with basically no
> training (OK this is an IT rag, they should have a clue about computing).
>
> Their negatives give some insight into perhaps why Linux distros don't see
> the adoption they maybe should (Evolution and Gwibber come in for a bit of a
> hammering).
>
> As for their moans about authenticating, call me paranoid but I *like* that
> feature!
>
> J.
> (Apols if this isn't the sort of thing that's expected on the listd)
>
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