Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 125.236.168.62]
on May 05, 2008 05:12 AM
There's a whole lot of non-zealots in the world who are interested in Ubuntu (for example) and who have given it a fair go. But at the end of the day Ubuntu (for example) won't go anywhere on the majority of desktops until the main reason that most people use a Ubuntu (..) equipped PC stops being a poor Office 2000 knock off. The original Star Office (before Sun) was rubbish, Staroffice and Openoffice.org have just continued the trend. Hell, for some reason even the Windows versions of Openoffice.org seem to be better/snappier/more attractive to use than the Linux version. Linux video editing = rubbish, The GIMP great - but a bizarre UI for most. The problem is that most of the stuff available is quite good, but 'quite' good is not enough - its got to be brilliant and almost none of it is.
I've basically given up. I still use my linux partition a lot - but only when I need to do proper linux/unix stuff in a terminal.
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 125.236.168.62] on May 05, 2008 05:12 AMI've basically given up. I still use my linux partition a lot - but only when I need to do proper linux/unix stuff in a terminal.
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