Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 16, 2003 09:41 PM
(1) What's so hard about apt? Or emerge? Much simpler than installing Windows software, and much MUCH easier to keep your software up to date.
(2) It's pretty easy once you get used to things. Linux is much easier to maintain than Windows. As for finding an app, that's what the whereis command is for. If you know your way around UNIX/Linux, things are easier and faster than in Windows.
(3) I agree on the drivers issue. But its a chicken and egg problem. There needs to be demand for drivers so that hardware manuafactures will release drivers or a spec in a timely manner.
Note that I didn't talk about Mac OS X. I haven't used it and it might be better than Linux. But I can assemble 3 good x86 machines for the price of one decent Mac machine, and then there's the software costs...
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 16, 2003 09:41 PM(2) It's pretty easy once you get used to things. Linux is much easier to maintain than Windows. As for finding an app, that's what the whereis command is for. If you know your way around UNIX/Linux, things are easier and faster than in Windows.
(3) I agree on the drivers issue. But its a chicken and egg problem. There needs to be demand for drivers so that hardware manuafactures will release drivers or a spec in a timely manner.
Note that I didn't talk about Mac OS X. I haven't used it and it might be better than Linux. But I can assemble 3 good x86 machines for the price of one decent Mac machine, and then there's the software costs...
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