On Tue, 26 Feb 2013 16:50:12 -0500 Mark Filipak <markfilipak.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2013/2/26 4:42 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > Mark Filipak wrote: > >> > >> For everyone who doesn't have their own development department to > >> adapt Linux kernels to their widget, Linux has been a toy OS for > >> technoweenies. That hasn't changed in 10 years and Linux has made > >> no headway on the desktop (or the laptop). Why is that? > > > > Toy OS for technoweenies? Try server o/s powering an awful lot of > > major applications. > > > > Desktop Linux has less of a value proposition. Face it, most > > people use computers at work, where you've got to run MS Office - > > which means Windows or MacOS. Real simple. > > > > Miles Fidelman > > Your attitude, Miles, is typical and is a large part of the problem. > > First you define your task. Then you choose your software. Only then do you choose the OS. If you need MS Office compatibility, and I mean compatibility to the extent available between different versions of it, then you run MS Office, and you do it on Windows or Mac. End of story. Before anyone says differently, I do use LibreOffice, on XP and Sid, but I also have a Win7 machine running Office 2010 for those documents which don't work right on LO. I saw one of them today. If I'm sending an important document to someone else, by choice I will not use an Office document format. If I must, then I'll try creating it with LO, but I'll check it with MS Office before I send it. If you need to use proprietary hardware, you almost certainly need to use Windows, because the necessary drivers haven't been written for anything else. The Saleae Logic logic analyser has good Linux software, the Microchip programmers do not. As for less exotic hardware, there's no doubt that vendors are discouraged from making Linux drivers available. If you need very cheap CAD or other technical software, it's probably Linux. If you don't like sacrificing much of your computer's power to security software (I'm looking at *you*, McAfee) then you want Linux. If you want to fully own your computer (see my earlier post) then it has to be Linux. For a server that uses sensible resources and can be fixed easily, Linux, without question. And so on, and so forth... horses for courses. If you let prejudice tie you to one platform, you're limited in all sorts of ways. -- Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130226222544.581fb...@jretrading.com
