Relative ease of use of OSes (& Macromedia Flash)
Wednesday, September 24, 2008 at 11:11 am
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Posted by gewg_
(4444 messages posted)
|Well Linux isn't really easy either,
| Steve
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Everything is relative, of course.
Many folks who started on Linux or Mac find *Windoze* less than intuitive.
|I stopped using My Linux PC several weeks back
|because the problems made it to hard to use.
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8-(
|Programs slow to open or not opening at all,
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Sounds like you didn't give the forums a real chance.
|the Browsers crashing on a variety of Web sites,
|think that was related to Flash problems.
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I've been hearing that more and more--regardless of OS.
...and allowing Flash by default makes no sense to me.
Mozilla extensions allow you to block the 99.9999% of Flash that is junk
thus eliminating a lot of freezing--as well as speeding up page loads.
(I almost never bother with Flash content.)
I also find there are very few *scripts* that I actually need.
Blocking that junk improves things too.
Same for a lot of the useless images that slow page loads; eat bandwidth;
clutter my screen; and, in the case of background images, make text hard to read.
With Comcast capping bandwidth, the others will soon follow
and folks are going to start deciding exactly what is worth spending bandwidth on
and what is just unnecessary crap.
|A lot of Media related Web sites now require XP or Up,
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I assume you're talking about M$'s "Silverlight".
That's just more of M$'s Embrace, Extend, Extinguish WRT the 'Net
--and chump developers buying into that single-sourced nonsense.[1]
(Rebuttal to "It's really a shame that people haven't embraced Silverlight":
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?mode=nested&threshold=5&sid=648431&cid=24639319)
...OTOH, there *is* an open-source implementation of that:
http://www.google.com/search?q=Moonlight+Silverlight.for.Linux
(similar to "Mono" being an open-source equivalent of dotNet).
|and the Latest version of Flash,
|guess you can blame that on Microsoft too,.,,,:)
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M$ established the (lock-in) meme for getting in users' way (especially on the Web);
Adobe has increasingly followed their lead.
Again, there are open-source alternatives to Adobe's player:
cache of http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Video
from the Usenet Archive -- alt.comp.freeware Ron Lopshire (et al)
(As Adobe continues to move the goal line, you may find that these are not
"100%" solutions--but they can eliminate many headaches.)
|but Linux is not even that great for Web surfing any more.
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I suspect that the proper set of Mozilla extensions would improve things greatly.
...of course, I tend to avoid pages done by bozos
who make no attempt to build W3C-compliant pages.
I can't wait to see the evolution of Google's open-source "Chrome" browser
(based on WebKit).
The multi-process thing (rather than multi-thread) sounds cool
--no more of the one-bad-tab-can-freeze-the-whole-browser thing
...or waiting on the browser while it processes a bloated page in another tab.
For acceptance they'll have to have equivalents of Mozilla's extension set
(AdBlock, FlashBlock, NoScripts, GreaseMonkey,...).
The downside: Currently it's Windoze-only (NT, of course). 8-(
|I guess dodging Malware will be easier for Me.:)
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Condolences on having to deal with that.
[1] What really torqued me off was
when the Library of Congress bought into this single-sourced "solution".
cache of http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/24/1939214#22539402
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