re: Dontcha wish Windoze had something like this?
Wednesday, August 19, 2009 at 11:26 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(4444 messages posted)
Arminius wrote:
|That goes back to what I had said before
|about the need to type commands in Linux being an obstacle to wider acceptance.
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You're overstating your case.
M$'s removing a useful command line from its OSes was a BAD choice.
Notice I used the word CHOICE. Choice is what you get with Linux.
As I said to Steve, you don't HAVE to use the command line with apt-get;
its Synaptic graphical front end makes it quite friendly to all
--at the cost of it being more tedious to click, click, click, click, click...
|Although, if Microsoft puts out more OS's like Vista
|then Linux could be the tortoise that wins the race.
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Another metaphor: The Little OS That Could. 8-)
In 2006, there was a community spin of Slackware with an interesting name:
cache
of http://linux.softpedia.com/get/System/Operating-Systems/Linux-Distributions/SLAX-KillBill-Edition-1957.shtml
It was meant to be a demonstrator about how you could live without Redmond.
That distro could easily have used the old tagline
"In a world with walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates?"
Some folks are finding that
Vista / Vista 7 have HORRIBLE backwards compatibility with their apps.
The usual advice from the Free Software folks is
"See how your app runs under WINE".
Most folks aren't having any problems
going the Linux route with their "broken" apps.
So, yes. Indeed.
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