[Nottingham] Interesting reading

[Christopher Joice]

Certainly interesting, I'm impressed they even tried it!
As mentioned, due to the "cloud" nature of things there is very little to
chose between what runs your browser, and most of the
"solutions" involved using crippled web-based microsoft software.

Probably the key point to take away is how well microsoft have been reverse
engineered, amazing how well everything integrates into a proprietary,
undocumented/poorly documented environment.

On 11 February 2011 23:45, Going It Alone <reggaemaker at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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