Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 30, 2004 06:20 AM
I have PCLinuxOS installed on a second partition on this machine. I started at preview4 and had many many problems out of the box. But everytime I update, especially since around preview5 Texstar installed Synaptic and Synaptic makes it a breeze to update, it fixes at least one problem that I had. That's what GNU/Linux is like. One day there is a problem, then the next, it's been fixed. You may be right when you're talking about older windowmangers, but your dead wrong when it comes to KDE, Gnome, and Xfce. Those three are under active developement which includes bug fixing and improvements. All PCLOS lacks now is my favorite apps and that's only a matter of time. As far as I'm concerned, Linux IS better than MSWindows now. And as a result of MS's release cycle format, they are now playing catchup to Linux and I don't think Longhorn will MS's savior like the one they need.
PS. The font problem is less and less. Nearly all my apps in PCLOS use the same font. Only Firefox, Thunderbird, and Xpdf use different fonts off the top of my head, and what they use are more than acceptable anyways.
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Re:Perfect description of what's wrong with Linux
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 30, 2004 06:20 AMPS. The font problem is less and less. Nearly all my apps in PCLOS use the same font. Only Firefox, Thunderbird, and Xpdf use different fonts off the top of my head, and what they use are more than acceptable anyways.
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