Ubuntu blues

[Martin Alderson]

[I do apolgize for this rant but it needs to get off my chest.]

Please do not say Windows is not 'working'. I use it as my primary
desktop, because it:

a) Feels more familiar.
b) Very stable (compared to GNOME, which has various crashes of
nautilus multiple times a week).
c) Allows me to run Windows Applications (mainly Visual Studio) and
games (big issue here)
d) Runs big opensource apps _better_ than Linux (eg: Firefox 1.0 took
me about 45 seconds to install on Windows, took me about half an hour
reading manuals and mailing lists to work out what the hell I should
be doing with it, also OpenOffice works a lot better on Windows than
Linux when it comes to printing and updating it).

I could go on. I don't like Microsoft as a company, and I would
certainly choose Linux w/ Wine over Windows 98 anyday. But I think
saying Windows doesn't work is totally irrational and dated, because
it really works very well as long as you use Firefox (or similar). I
agree that IE is a pile of shit, though.


On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 01:34:00 +0100, Christian Bjälevik
<nafallo at magicalforest.se> wrote:
> Martin Alderson wrote:
> > For gods sake, it's not a damn religion. It's an operating system - a
> > means to an end.
> >
> > Morales should not be 'opensource software for desktop'. It should be
> > things like violence, racism, equality etc etc etc.
> You said it yourself :-). A working computer will bring less violence
> and an open-sourced OS and the right integration in the process of the
> like will help them learn to coop with ppl from all over the world,
> preventing racism, and equality, as in everyone should have the right to
> make programs work as they like, use them for free and such things.