Comment Re:Not unless it changes a whole lot (Score 1) 591
1) Want a word processor? All the common linux distros install an excellent one by default. Windows? Bzzzt. You're on your own. Gotta buy something.
2) Spreadsheet? Same thing.
3) Presentation authoring? Same thing.
4) PDF reading? Linux comes with evince and others. On Windows you have to download Acrobat.
5) Halfway decent text editor? Linux comes with excellent ones. On Windows you have to hunt one down.
6) CD and DVD burning? Linux comes with it. Windows may include a crude one now; it never used to, when I didn't know any better than to use Windows.
7) Any scanner I ever tried Just Worked out of the box on linux. On Windows you have to install special driver software. Some of them are no longer supported at all on recent versions of Windows, but work fine on linux. The same for a lot of other hardware (sound, chipsets, add-on cards, etc).
8) Anything else you want to do. A myriad of apps are a click away in the Add/Remove software menu on linux. Oh, and they're all free too. On Windows, every one has to be tracked down individually, and usually purchased.
I agree.
No so easy is to setup your new printer.
Recently I was buying a wifi usb dongle. In the shop, there were several, I bought the only one with linux support. It costed about 80% more than others. I plugged it and it didn't work. It worked after 2 hours compiling software, and I actualy had to have internet to be able to gather all of the requilred dependacies.
Linux hardware support is just teriible. I had numerous problems with things that stopped working, with a new kernel versions -- Card readers, bluethouth dongles, video cards. And other things, just don't work on older kernels...
Linux has to be better. Otherwise it will remain to be just a nurdy OS.
