Linux for an association I work for.

[Aviram Jenik]

On Saturday 28 February 2009 07:45:11 Yotam Rubin wrote:
>  I now believe that Linux is not a
> viable choice for anyone who's not an advanced user. 

That's funny. So all 8 million Ubuntu users are linux experts? I guess if I 
visit the Ubuntu forums all I'll see is questions about remote RAID 
installation and not 'how to' on installing printers. Right?


> My reasons follow: 
>  1. Mainstream desktop environments (KDE, GNOME) have gotten slower and
> buggier over the years. As I bought faster hardware, KDE and GNOME seemed
> slower and crashed more often.
>  2. Linux distributions don't work. Even Ubuntu and other mainstream
> distributions simply do not work. Package testing is poor, and various
> programs do not integrate with one another. I often find myself having to
> fix things manually, usually by digging deep into various
> scripts/configuration files. Additionally, at least with Ubuntu, upgrades
> tend to break horribly, requiring a clean reinstallation.
>  3. Usability as a whole is becoming less viable. Applications (at least
> with my recent Ubuntu distrubutions) tend to crash often, work more slowly
> and have less features.

How does this make linux viable for "experts"? If it's slow and buggy, it's 
that way for everyone, right? Or is there a reason why "experts" especially 
like slow, buggy, unusable software? 

What you're saying is "linux sucks". Then you go on to say "Mac rules".

>
> Windows suffers from the same problems, only it's not as slow as Linux. 

Ok, now that is *really* funny.

- Aviram