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I am not so sure about linux not being used for the desktop. We know that
it is a server type os. We also know that we can install all types of server
daemons and utilities, including an X server. So what is to stop it? Wal
mart joe might have a problem with it today but he wants it. In the future
linux will be nice enough for anyone to use. Without getting into the whole
debate about wal-mart joe becoming an SA or whether he has the right, I would
say that linux is powerful enough to be a desktop OS and developers build
desktop programs for it every day.<br>
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For instance, when you look at the work Codeweavers has done with the Office
Crossover and Plugin Crossover, desktop program inter operability is not
far in the future, it is today. <br>
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I have been using it as a desktop for about 8 months and find it both a challenge
and somewhat limited as well. But I can do almost everything I need to on
it. <br>
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You are right though, linux will never rule the OS market as long as it is
chasing M$. As long as we are making applications LIKE M$ products we will
always be in second place. But, that is <br>
another story.<br>
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Glad to be a new part of NFLUG.<br>
Tim<br>
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<pre wrap=""><!----><-------------------------------snip-------------------------------------><br>True...Linux has its drawbacks its not as easy to use as Windows.<br>The interface needs a lot more work as the article states, it may now be<br>more<br>easy to install than ever but it still is not as user friendly as windows.<br>You have to understand something. Linux's background is that it was<br>written for and used by developers for development. A GUI front end for Unix<br>was the end product and a Unix like operating system is the result. It was<br>never meant to<br>be used by the common enduser nor was it to be thought of as a common<br>desktop.<br>It has evolved into a somewhat easy to install userend desktop as we seam to<br>think,<br>but once you use it you'll see that it can't be used as a truely common<br>desktop like Windows.<br>As you said its not a two clicks and your software is installed kind of<br>operating system.<br>Your totally correct it is not a
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easy as it could be! One can install it<br>and within<br>a few minutes connect to the internet (only with Mandrake I believe can you<br>do this?).<br>Otherwise it is not a vary user friendly operating system. Those with a Unix<br>background<br>they say its easy for them...well for them but not for all of us! We who<br>where brought up in the<br>DOS/Windows era and never exposed to Unix will not find the merge over<br>partly or totally easy at all!<br>For the most part it has one upper hand the preverbal ace in the hole it can<br>operate on nearly any old<br>legacy system, and is a more stable more powerful an operating system by far<br>than anything I have ever used.<br>>From what I've seen for myself and have read on this list and from other<br>sources is that if it goes belly up it<br>is do to enduser error more then system error. I think that with Linux we<br>are being offered by far a better<br>choice of an operating system than the blue screen of death.<br><br>Membe
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of the windows twelve step program group.<br>Ron:)<br><br>Ron Maggio<br>Have Screwdriver Will Travel<br>Computer Repair Service<br>P.O. BOX 186<br>Spring Brook, NY. 14140-0186<br>Phone: (716) 677-5909<br><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:travelingcomputerservice@worldnet.att.net">travelingcomputerservice@worldnet.att.net</a><br><br><br><br></pre>
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