On Saturday 28 February 2009 07:45:11 Yotam Rubin wrote: > I now believe that Linux is not a > viable choice for anyone who's not an advanced user.
That's funny. So all 8 million Ubuntu users are linux experts? I guess if I visit the Ubuntu forums all I'll see is questions about remote RAID installation and not 'how to' on installing printers. Right? > My reasons follow: > 1. Mainstream desktop environments (KDE, GNOME) have gotten slower and > buggier over the years. As I bought faster hardware, KDE and GNOME seemed > slower and crashed more often. > 2. Linux distributions don't work. Even Ubuntu and other mainstream > distributions simply do not work. Package testing is poor, and various > programs do not integrate with one another. I often find myself having to > fix things manually, usually by digging deep into various > scripts/configuration files. Additionally, at least with Ubuntu, upgrades > tend to break horribly, requiring a clean reinstallation. > 3. Usability as a whole is becoming less viable. Applications (at least > with my recent Ubuntu distrubutions) tend to crash often, work more slowly > and have less features. How does this make linux viable for "experts"? If it's slow and buggy, it's that way for everyone, right? Or is there a reason why "experts" especially like slow, buggy, unusable software? What you're saying is "linux sucks". Then you go on to say "Mac rules". > > Windows suffers from the same problems, only it's not as slow as Linux. Ok, now that is *really* funny. - Aviram _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
