Comments on: Ubuntu is not ready for most, even from Dell

By: Dell optiplex

Dell optiplex — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:45:05 +0000

I’ve bought the 1521 laptop a couple of days ago. What can I say?
It’s perfect. The batteries works up to 4 hours (if you power off
the wireless interfaces). Also, I was lucky enough to get the model
without that TrueLife glossy screen. The bad thing is that the laptop
only comes with Windows Vista, and therefore has only Vista drivers.
It was somehow hard to find the Windows XP drivers for all presented
devices, but finally I have found them all.
Again – this laptop is just perfect.

By: repos rule

repos rule — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:02:34 +0000

Wat the hell…wow i wonder whats easier…open web browser search for program…download…double click…read stupid directions…press next ten million times…or wait…wait…
aptitude install ?
dont ask me but i think the second way is easier….but only a noob like u would say that

By: Liviu-Theodor Vîzdoagă

Liviu-Theodor Vîzdoagă — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:38:47 +0000

Well, I am a network administrator. I have worked with Microsoft products since MS DOS 4.1 and Windows 3.1. My first look at a linux distribution was RedHat 4.2. I have seen another linux distributions since then (RedHat, Mandrake – now Mandriva, OpenSuse, Ubuntu – and variants, Fedora). Now at my work the servers came with Fedora 6, while the workstations with Windows Vista Ultimate. I think I know a bit about computers, as I have worked or learned also with another operating systems (eg. Solaris, Unix, and others less known). But after my comparison between Windows Vista, older variants of Windows and various linux distrbution, I think (and that is my opinion, nothing else) that Windows Vista is not ready for the average user. It may be in some two or three years, after one or two service packs and countless updates. And Windows Vista does not recognizes automatically my home soundcard, the usb sticks, digitally photo cameras, even usb mouses (or mice? don’t know exactly), whereas the live CD-s of Ubuntu and OpenSuse does. Well, I think for the average user the fact that he or she is not able to use even the mouse will be very frustating, and sure he or she will not know what to do (like installing new usb drivers – in windows, without using the mouse, because is not working), so Windows Vista is very far away to be “ready for the most”, even coming from Microsoft. And no, I am not a Linux fan, geek or whatever. And nor Windows, or another operating system. I just want an operating system to do what I command it to do, not allowing it to have the initiative (well, similarly will be a driver wanting to turn left, but his/her “intelligent car” will say “no, you must turn right”). And I think that right now Linux will be the operating system to allow me to drive the computer, not the other way around, like is necessary with Microsoft Windows (and if you don’t like some distribution for some reason, you are free to use another). I have seen Mac OS, but no Mac OS X, so I will say nothing about it – all I know about it is that will work only on Apple/MacIntosh hardware.

By: Doodee

Doodee — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 18:36:52 +0000

Thanks for sharing

By: /Fail.

/Fail. — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 15:45:52 +0000

Oh, I almost forgot. Let’s bring in GeekSquad (dey gatz dem lo rates lololl!!!!111one) and see how many trojans are multiplying themselves in the registry while creating new roots!

By: /Fail.

/Fail. — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 15:41:06 +0000

Ok, go play with Windows, made by a company who shows you how to shut down something with the “Start” button. Ubuntu can run most .exe programs with a Windows emulator. At least I know that when something isn’t responding, I can click on it and force-quit it, rather than waiting 10-20 minutes after clicking the end task button for the “TASK” to actually end. Then I’d probably realize, “Oh my! All my processes are running in the background even after turning them off? Woopsies!”

By: Thankfully not Jonathan Schlaffer (Again)

Thankfully not Jonathan Schlaffer (Again) — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 02:29:13 +0000

Mac OSX is Unix-based, too. Does that mean that OSX is also “an old dog that had to be beaten into doing new tricks”? I’m not necessarily a fan of Mac OSX, but I don’t think a lot of people who beat the “Linux is based on Unix, which is teh ancient and teh suxors” drum realize that OSX is based on Unix also…

By: Jonah

Jonah — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 22:04:05 +0000

All these Linux zealots here make me puke. What a horrible bunch of whiny babies. Reminds me of the Amiga community years ago. Yeah, I had one, and while it was a superior piece of hardware, it fell far behind in the market.

Like Windows or not, it’s a standard. With Windows, I can use commercial software, or a wide assortment of open source programs, and they all work. When I was a teenager popping pimples, nothing made me happier than to create my own Arexx Scripts and type into a shell window all day. But you know what? Computers have always been about PROGRESS. Doing things in new and better ways. The new way is point and click install, configure, and run software.

The very idea you have to even TOUCH a command prompt in Linux is exactly why it’s a flop. Yes, Linux is great if you have a large number of machines in a server environment or you are a hardcore programmer, but the rest of us users want something a lot more solid.

Kind of sad to me, that an open source operating system isn’t even original. It’s based from Unix? Please. 1969 was a long time ago. Throw the punch cards away and start developing something new. If Linux was a made from scratch, original OS that could run Windows apps and it’s own apps natively, that would be something. But, it’s not, so it will always be like the Amiga…. in the background. Known by only a few, mastered by even fewer. Grow up people.

The truth is, Linux is derived from Unix, which itself is an old dog that had to be beaten into doing new tricks. But because you people are so in love with it you don’t’ really see it as that. Maybe that’s the problem with being in love with a tool… you become blind to it’s flaws.

By: Choche

Choche — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 23:56:47 +0000

Don’t worry guys!!! People like the one starting the post are dying out. Those that can’t get more out of their pc’s than just clicking next..next…next…finished. Some time later; “oh my computer is running so slow”. Tech comes in and viruses, trojans, and all that garbage galore rages in such pc. Just give it time; the newer generations are demanding more and more from their pc’s and Linux in the only solution.

By: Sam

Sam — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 19:12:16 +0000

“Thankfully not Jonathan Schlaffer” is my hero