Comment I'm there but I'm not.......... (Score 1, Insightful) 345
I have read many of the threads and posts here (I can say that this discussion has been, for the most part, very civil!! What gives, no bashing?? I'm glad to reply to such a group of ADULTS!!)
I have tried many of the Linux distros, I then discovered Mandrake. I like it. But I ended up going back to Windows! Why?? Sound problems, even though I use the industry standard of Creative Labs!! Mail SMTP. Recieving mail was always fine but the sending mail always never got through unless I used Netscrape Mail (ICK!! IMHO) Fonts, esp in browsers. I don't know what the deal is in Linux community with not wanting to intergrate as many available fonts into the system, I know that many are costly and MS owns so many of them, so forth and so on but the ones that are available should be intergrated completely into the system, as for the GUI, no I think the way it is now is just fine, let the user choose (I speak as a desktop user not a server person) And of course there is the debate of the drivers but I see many hardware folks bending over backwards to support the Linux Commuinity like HP, so give it some time, it all takes time!! Apps, there is the problem for me, besides the above mentioned. I use XaraX, PhotoPaint and a few others that I would not part with. So, unless I am using Wine, whick last time I used it I was lucky to get Notepad to invoke, I will have to give up my beloved and very useful Windows based apps. I can't see doing that. That's half the reason I use a computer right there. And I know that in time there will be more and more ported over but in the mean time it is obvious to me that Linux is a toy for the geeks and a dream for the desktop user that wants to get out from under Windows control (I'm one of them)! I am interested in Mandrakes 9.0 that is in it's last beta and maybe willing to play with it but the reports I have read about it thus far is that many are having problems with the sound cards being recognized, so that lets me down quite a bit right there!! Sigh.........in time!!
RAMWolff ;-)~
I have tried many of the Linux distros, I then discovered Mandrake. I like it. But I ended up going back to Windows! Why?? Sound problems, even though I use the industry standard of Creative Labs!! Mail SMTP. Recieving mail was always fine but the sending mail always never got through unless I used Netscrape Mail (ICK!! IMHO) Fonts, esp in browsers. I don't know what the deal is in Linux community with not wanting to intergrate as many available fonts into the system, I know that many are costly and MS owns so many of them, so forth and so on but the ones that are available should be intergrated completely into the system, as for the GUI, no I think the way it is now is just fine, let the user choose (I speak as a desktop user not a server person) And of course there is the debate of the drivers but I see many hardware folks bending over backwards to support the Linux Commuinity like HP, so give it some time, it all takes time!! Apps, there is the problem for me, besides the above mentioned. I use XaraX, PhotoPaint and a few others that I would not part with. So, unless I am using Wine, whick last time I used it I was lucky to get Notepad to invoke, I will have to give up my beloved and very useful Windows based apps. I can't see doing that. That's half the reason I use a computer right there. And I know that in time there will be more and more ported over but in the mean time it is obvious to me that Linux is a toy for the geeks and a dream for the desktop user that wants to get out from under Windows control (I'm one of them)! I am interested in Mandrakes 9.0 that is in it's last beta and maybe willing to play with it but the reports I have read about it thus far is that many are having problems with the sound cards being recognized, so that lets me down quite a bit right there!! Sigh.........in time!!
RAMWolff
