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Why windows is windows and linux is linux.
Slacker:
People are computer illiterate idiots. Business people realize so they puppeteer programmers to make over-bloated software for people like my grandma and mom who can barely use the mouse.
Business + "alot of programmers" + idiot users = buggy software. I have experienced it first hand as a lead developer of a web project. The sales people wanted the whole thing to basically wipe the ass of the user and in doing so was constantly changing the base structure and the programmers were forced to "patch" the base system which in result led to alot of bugs that couldnt be fixed unless started from scratch. Unfortunately you cant start from scratch because of money ( Windows Millenium was a fucking joke.. maybe even a crime )
Linux = an os for programmers. Thats the way it was designed. So was unix. And its free. Its not designed for idiots. The user is expected to learn ( alot about computers ). Which basically eliminates millions of people who use computers today because they arent going to want to use it because they are tards.
A thought...
If m$ died and it were up to linux to be on every desktop.. These so called "People friendly" cracker-jacks who know dick about programming are going to be sitting around figuring out ways to make linux useable by everyone.. Its quite possible that linux would end up like windows..
In general linux's design is alot better then windows.. And would have a better chance because alot of it is open source. But still.. You never know..
psyjax:
come now, ip tracking is mean
jtpenrod:
quote: Business + "alot of programmers" + idiot users = buggy software.
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I think you're being just a bit hard on the end users here. There are lots of problems that commercial programmers run into: feature creep, clients who don't really know what they want and/or are constantly changing the specs for whatever software they want developed, too much influence from marketing. All these factors conspire to royally screw up many projects.
There is also one other factor: The A Number One purveyor of bloated and buggy software is Microsoft. Here is a company that has basically run out of ideas. The last good idea they had was Win 95. What to do when you've sold as many copies of Win 95 as you can? Here is a product that never breaks down, never wears out, and runs today just as good as it did when new. (With today's faster processors and more memory, it runs even better.) Close up shop and go home? Hardly! So they made some minor changes here and there, fired up the marketing team and pumped out all this hype to convince enough people that the next iteration was something grand and glorious. They fooled 'em with Win 98, Win98SE, Win ME, Win 2000, and now they're trying it with Win XP. However, it doesn't seem to be working anymore. They seem to have reached the limits on their ability to keep fooling people :D
As for Linux, I keep hearing this all the time: it's too hard, it's too "geeky", etc, & ad infinitum. It just ain't so. The KDE desktop is easier to use than any version of Windoze, everything that the "average idiot user" could possibly want to do can be done from the desktop. You never have to look at a command line if you don't want to. If they can learn Winders, they can learn Mandrake. It ain't no harder, and with Mandrake's superior documentation, it's probably a good deal easier than Winders.
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[ April 06, 2002: Message edited by: jtpenrod ]
jtpenrod:
quote: You appear too be using internet expoder. I suggest you get Netscape or Arachne
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Mozilla and Opera, I believe, can be told to "lie" and impersonate Internut Exploiter. You knew that, right?
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[ April 06, 2002: Message edited by: jtpenrod ]
Bateluer:
I let Opera impersonate IE5.5, it gets into sites that supposedly IE 'only'
But, Slacker is correct. The average computer user simply is not capable of using Linux, even Mandrake. My sister has a hard time using XP Pro, which is ungodly easy. She does not understand basic concepts, such as browsing windows explorer. She is the only person I know that uses Kazaa, with ALL the spyware installed, to play her media collection. Even though she has WMP8 and Winamp 2.78, she uses kazaa.
If Linux is to have a fighting chance on the desktop, it MUST become more like windows. Its not an option, and it will happen.
Years from now, you will be posting on a site called www.fuckMandrake.com
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