Linux is ready for the desktop!

[Ely Levy]

Hi,
You might want to take a look at:

http://www.hboeck.de/archives/787-The-sad-state-of-the-Linux-Desktop.html

Or one of the other million posts on the web about it.
Linux desktop is a mess, from video support (no ogl 3 even) sucky sound
support (pulseaudio has it's share of bugs and alsa is way too limited)
Lack of programs (Most of the program are not in the level you can give a
simple user e.g. normal sound/video/flash editor and so on).
The programs which are around don't play nicely with each other. Freedesktop
is so busy in not deciding on any standard that it changes
utility programs every 2 days and never document any of them.
(policykit/udisks/upower/dbus? who say what to who?). Sucky unicode
support/sucky nonstandard bidi support. Lack of normal office suite. Lack of
production quality voice/video over ip client. For programs things are even
worth, nothing that compared to xcode or visual studio, million of gui
interfaces, no debugger with good interface  or profiler (oprofile is way
too complicated unless you are a linux savvy). Every new technology takes
years before it get open source support (try finding normal opencl utilities
on linux) and I can continue for days.

And please spare me all that hardware people fault or everyone like
microsoft. If there is one good thing apple did, it's making this excuse
void.

Ely


On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Nadav Har'El <nyh at math.technion.ac.il>wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 18, 2011, Guy Tetruashvyly wrote about "Re: Linux is ready for
> the desktop!":
> > Antoher issue I wanted to mention, and I don't know how many of you
> > would agree, is  regarding the
> > pirated software in Israel. Here in the U.S , a store would rarely
> > ever offer an installation of pirated software, the BSA here
>
> In my experience, the situation in Israel is not very different. I'm sure
> that you can find small shops who will be willing to install illegal copies
> of Windows for you, but the major chains (such as Ivory, where I happened
> to buy) will not take that risk. They are happy, though, to sell a computer
> *without an operating system*, and probably assume that you or a geek
> friend
> will install some illegal copy of Windows on it, but they won't help you
> actually do this installation.
>
> It would be nice if instead of selling you a computer without an OS, they
> would sell you one with Linux (as I described in my previous email). Don't
> like it? You can still install the pirated Windows you wanted to install in
> the first place. But at least give peace (or in this case, free software) a
> chance.
>
> > The obviousness of purchasing and paying full price for software in
> > the western world makes the Linux marketing much easier, in my
> > opinion.
>
> When computers cost 5,000 shekels, adding 500 shekels for Windows was
> annoying,
> but sort of acceptable. But now that the price of a new computer dropped to
> a measly 1,000 shekels? I can hardly see how people accept paying an
> additional
> 50% for the OS. Or even more for the OS plus office. So I agree we should
> be
> seeing more success for Linux (and OpenOffice) marketing. I predict we
> will,
> in the coming years. As I mentioned, my workplace already completely
> dropped
> MS-Office. I think the transition is just beginning.
>
> > I believe that in places that software piracy is common,
> > where a copy of WIn7 Home-edition is also " free " , it kind of
> > takes the sting out.
>
> I agree :(
>
> Nadav.
>
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