one thing i find anoying is

[Michael T. Richter]

On Wed, 2006-03-05 at 14:05 +0700, Chanchao wrote:

> > Now it's improved drastically on that front since my first exposure to
> > it (to the point that Ubuntu has replaced XP on my system despite its
> > failings -- but not to the point that my wife uses it)



> I wonder if that would be sufficient grounds for divorce.. :)  


I doubt it.  Because I agree with her.  Linux is fine for my needs
now ... just barely.  It is wholly inadequate for her needs, to wit:

        A. Chinese support stinks on ice:
        
             1. Chinese IME is a mess and doesn't support Wubi86, for
                example (but does support Wubi98);
             2. The only 汉英英汉 dictionary we've found sucks up most
                of her RAM and takes over five seconds per keystroke as
                we look up words and takes well over 30 seconds when
                using its highly unreliable "pick up the word
                highlighted" mechanism (as compared to Powerword which
                will pop up translations of words the cursor is resting
                over in a millisecond or so on the same computer);
             3. The Chinese fonts that come with Ubuntu by default are
                painful to read.
                
        
        B. Getting devices that she uses daily to work reliably under
        Ubuntu is just not there.  USB sticks, for example, sometimes
        just stop automounting.  I know just enough about that process
        to be able to cajole them into working again after a few minutes
        of Mystic Incantations<tm>.  She doesn't.  And nor should she
        need to.  She can plug them in and yank them out ad nauseum
        under Windows without seeing that same problem.
        
        C. The applications she uses regularly (Word, Photoshop and
        Excel mainly) have their equivalents, but one of them --
        Photoshop -- has an equivalent that is just woefully incapable
        on the UI front.  The other two have OpenOffice.org which is
        nice functionality-wise, but a bloated pig in memory.  (Yes, I'm
        saying it's a bloated pig in comparison to Microsoft Office.
        That is truly, seriously bad!)


I would no more divorce her for not using Linux than I would for not
wanting to drive a Yugo over an Acura.

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