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Microsoft Surprises with Linux 'Hands-On Lab'
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Some important finessing going on here
Linux is admin-friendly, but MS-Windows is not? Why is this so when MS-Windows needs adminning so much more often?
Linux is supposedly not user friendly because you might have trouble installing a driver - but wait, isn't that an admin function?
Don't most device drivers come with Linux anyway? I speak here of working drivers, not the nominal drivers shipped with XP that have to be instantly replaced with new drivers downloaded from the manufacturer if you expect the machine to not crash (ir)regularly when using the device.
Doesn't any modern Linux distribution automatically handle 99% of device driver finding and activation requirements? What distro did this guy use, LinuxFromScratch?
Linux is supposedly not user friendly... but how is having to admin your own box regularly - as MS-Windows users routinely do - supposed to be more "user friendly?"
What is this mysterious "lack of customized integration for the Linux user"? He was demoing KDE (presumably something later than 1.2, but we aren't told), which has customisation options leaking out of both its ears. Or is he talking about things like the Mandrake Control Centre, or works-out-of-the-box mod_$FAVOURITELANGUAGE Apache modules, or similar PostgreSQL/MySQL/thisSQL/thatSQL packages?
Does not compute.
Likeliest missing information? $DON_JOHNSON="subtle shill"
However, it was pleasant to see lots of Microsofties learning that Linux doesn't have three heads, bolts in its neck, stitches and uneven eyeballs.
Linux is supposedly not user friendly because you might have trouble installing a driver - but wait, isn't that an admin function?
Don't most device drivers come with Linux anyway? I speak here of working drivers, not the nominal drivers shipped with XP that have to be instantly replaced with new drivers downloaded from the manufacturer if you expect the machine to not crash (ir)regularly when using the device.
Doesn't any modern Linux distribution automatically handle 99% of device driver finding and activation requirements? What distro did this guy use, LinuxFromScratch?
Linux is supposedly not user friendly... but how is having to admin your own box regularly - as MS-Windows users routinely do - supposed to be more "user friendly?"
What is this mysterious "lack of customized integration for the Linux user"? He was demoing KDE (presumably something later than 1.2, but we aren't told), which has customisation options leaking out of both its ears. Or is he talking about things like the Mandrake Control Centre, or works-out-of-the-box mod_$FAVOURITELANGUAGE Apache modules, or similar PostgreSQL/MySQL/thisSQL/thatSQL packages?
Does not compute.
Likeliest missing information? $DON_JOHNSON="subtle shill"
However, it was pleasant to see lots of Microsofties learning that Linux doesn't have three heads, bolts in its neck, stitches and uneven eyeballs.
Yeah sounds like a subtle variation on the "Get the Facts (tm)" campaign. Complete BS
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"...who explained in true MS style how the things that are considered wrong with Windows are planned or an advantage."
THis is hilarious. So, everything that's wrong with Windows was planned and is no accident. Riiiiight!. So, the holes, the instability, the infuriating error messages, the confirmation dialogues everytime you want to do anything simple, the lack of confirmation dialogues when a web page is writing to the system files and so on and so on.
They planned it all.
I can see this catching on.