Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on March 01, 2006 02:58 AM
What you are saying is true, to a certain extent. Indeed people run into difficulties using Microsoft products and they are more likely to attribute these to their own ignorance then they are using a Linux environment.
But it is, as is everything in life, a matter of degrees. I feel Windows is in a real way more user friendly than is Linux. This is not to say it is perfect -far from it -nor to say Linux is bad. For certain applications one could even argue Linux is superior to Windows -but not in being a desktop system for the average user.
Maybe you feel you have to defend Linux, but there is no need. Most likely all readers of this article would like to see Linux and open source in general dominate the software market. I know I would. But denying any defects in Linux by presenting some counterexamples, which can obviously always be found, is denying oneself the posibility to improve on Linux. Again, I truly like linux, but to make it a more appealing product such improvements are needed.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 01, 2006 02:58 AMBut it is, as is everything in life, a matter of degrees. I feel Windows is in a real way more user friendly than is Linux. This is not to say it is perfect -far from it -nor to say Linux is bad. For certain applications one could even argue Linux is superior to Windows -but not in being a desktop system for the average user.
Maybe you feel you have to defend Linux, but there is no need. Most likely all readers of this article would like to see Linux and open source in general dominate the software market. I know I would. But denying any defects in Linux by presenting some counterexamples, which can obviously always be found, is denying oneself the posibility to improve on Linux. Again, I truly like linux, but to make it a more appealing product such improvements are needed.
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