Wasting Time with Linux

Message ID: 372618

Posted By: deepdistrust

Subject: Wasting Time with Linux

Spending any time on Linux in the hope that it will someday catch up on the desktop is a waste. Consider that two of the main supporters of Linux desktop - IBM and Novell - have had their asses handed to them by Microsoft in previous desktop battles.

Yet another way of losing with Linux is documented on this web page. I've already mentioned the inexorable Linux upgrade cycle when it comes to drivers for new hardware. 'Brad' is talking about just application programs here.

http://ideas.4brad.com/archives/000197.html

I've already mentioned the inexorable Linux upgrade cycle when it comes to drivers for new hardware. 'Brad' is talking about just application programs here.

"To get new software, you are often forced to upgrade, sometimes your whole OS. And that's free to do and often it works, but you can't depend on it. More than once I have lost a day of uptime to major upgrade efforts.

"Let's contrast that with Windows. The vast majority of Windows programs will install, in their latest version, on 7 year old Windows 98, and almost all will install on 5 year old Windows 2000. .....

"The linux approach ends up forcing the user to choose between the risky course of constant incremental upgrades, taking occasional random plunges into major upgrades, or simply not being able to run interesting new software or the latest versions and fixes of older software.

"That's a failure. Non-guru users are not able to deal with any of those choices."

As you can see, avoiding Linux desktop at all costs is the sensible solution.

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