On 9/3/06, Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Andrew Crystall wrote: > > I do dual-boot windows 2k and linux, but I don't feel that Linux is > ready for most home users, unlike projects like OpenOffice, which > I've recommended for some years... it's a shame that I can't move > away entirely because of some of the more arcane Excel spreadsheets > used by friends of mine don't translate to Calc well. > I have dual-boot Windows XP and Linux, and Linux is increasingly more useful for my home users than Windows. For most tasks there is only Linux, and Windows is relegated to games. It's a pity that there's no way to play The Sims 2 with Linux, or I would thrash Windows completely.
My system is a dual boot XP/Ubuntu machine, and I 'm using Ubuntu as I write this. But it took me days of struggle to get my xorg.conf file in my /etc/X11 directory edited correctly before I could get the 1440x900 display I'm using to work properly. And that is even though in Dapper Drake, the latest and greatest Ubuntu version, the right Nvidia driver was automatically installed when I installed the operating system. On the XP side of my machine, by contrast, all I had to do was download and install the Nividia driver and everything worked perfectly. It took me maybe five minutes. What is better on the desktop, a two day struggle editing a text file of technical jibberish and searching online forums and user groups to learn what to do, or a five minute download and install? Linux is going to take off when it is better than Windows, not merely just as good. Both operating systems are pieces of crap compared with what we really need. Twenty years from now people will shake their heads in wonder that anyone could use a desktop computer back in first decade of the century. We can't even keep malware, the RIAA and abusive governments out of our machines. And tomorrow, Google will be forced to turn over all our search history to George Bush just so he can make sure he approves of where we visit on the web. Why are these companies keeping sensitive data on us anyway? Are there laws that require them to? I don't think so? Why aren't there laws that prohibit them from collecting such data? What ever happened to our rights to be secure in our persons and effects as guaranteed in the Bill of Rights? And how come none of these free men and women in this country seem to care? John W. Redelfs [EMAIL PROTECTED] *********************************************************** Do you play World of Warcraft? Let me know. Maybe we can play together. *********************************************************** All my opinions are tentative pending further data. --JWR _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
