Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on September 03, 2003 06:05 PM
Linux provides decent replacement for commodity softwares that everyone uses like web browsers, email clients and office tools.
But most of the people I know do other things like video editing, photo, rip and burn CDs etc...
Of course, linux has apps for all that, some really good, some not so good, but no OS will be amazing enough for these guys to throw away the time they've spent learning whatever specialised app they use on windows or Mac and hunt for a replacement and learn it. Sometimes (as it is the case for video editing) there is not much choice and underlying configuration is far from trivial.
So until the best of breed and the cheapest of these apps get ported to Linux, Linux won't be an alternative for most people.
Myself, I installed mozilla on my work XP box because that's what I am used to at home. I miss Kmail and have chosen java as a hobby development language because I can use netbeans and Jbuilder at work and home (linux).
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on September 03, 2003 06:05 PMBut most of the people I know do other things like video editing, photo, rip and burn CDs etc...
Of course, linux has apps for all that, some really good, some not so good, but no OS will be amazing enough for these guys to throw away the time they've spent learning whatever specialised app they use on windows or Mac and hunt for a replacement and learn it. Sometimes (as it is the case for video editing) there is not much choice and underlying configuration is far from trivial.
So until the best of breed and the cheapest of these apps get ported to Linux, Linux won't be an alternative for most people.
Myself, I installed mozilla on my work XP box because that's what I am used to at home. I miss Kmail and have chosen java as a hobby development language because I can use netbeans and Jbuilder at work and home (linux).
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