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I still have to use Windows to get work done
Sat, 06/05/2010 - 00:06 — Geno
I wish I could switch to linux, but years of trying with various distros (I'm a 30-year IT veteran so I know a few things about computers and operating systems) has convinced me that linux is not ready for mainstream desktop use.
If you can use it on your system, and you don't mind playing around with obscure config commands buried in odd places within the file system, fine, but for most users linux just does not work.
And as for ease of use - such as using a gui for configuration changes - forget it. I still can't get Ubuntu to work with my old Wacom graphics tablet without having to tweak parameters in the conf file when I do a system update - and even then the functionality is much less than I get from a default install of Windows.
I want to spend my time doing productive work, not playing at system administration all day, so why should I bother?
Yes Microsoft sucks, but people still use Windows because the competition hasn't come up with a better alternative for the majority of users. I wish it were otherwise, but until linux developers submit to rules for centralising and standardising the operating system configuration - to take just one example - and recognise that users' desire for gui-based user-friendliness is not an excuse to treat them as contemptible intellectual inferiors, it will remain geekware.
Really? I was of the exact
Really? I was of the exact same mindset as you 4-5 years ago. I was happily plugging along in Windows, doing my daily work and whatever else I wanted to do. I am a Java developer, so I do quite a but of programming, and like you, am 30 years old with a IT background. Anyway, when Microsoft released their trial copies of Windows 7 for beta testing, I was right there to give it a shot, and loved it. 1000x better than Vista, which I had been using on my new laptop, however when the day came that I had to either buy it or go back to Vista, I decided to go ahead and install Ubuntu in the interim until I could get a retail copy of 7. Funny thing is, I've been using Linux exclusively ever since. I did get a but tired of Ubuntu's updates, and have now settled into a nice Arch distro, sure it took me a few hours (the bulk of which was spent on my wireless adapter) to get it working just right for my system, but it was worth it. I learned more about my computer and how the OS works in that time than I had in years of working with Windows. I have VirtualBox set up with a copy of Windows XP, for application testing and if I need it for anything I can do in Linux. So far, the only Windows program I haven't found a decent replacement for is iTunes. I know such programs exist for linux, but it was faster to do it through the Virtual XP. If I didn't have an iPod, I wouldn't even need that. Gaming is another story, I don't really play games, so it's not as much of a concern for me as it might be for some.
To each his own I guess..
Windows is not in use
Windows is not in use because the competion hasn't been better, because first of all with computers that is a very vague and fuzzy issue. "Better" could mean any number of things, my TI-86 is better than windows...why? it never crashes it does exactly what i need and there is a long list of things that it can do that windows cannot not do, or at least do easily. Better alternatives popped up throughout history, and windows did not crush them with superiority or easy of use. Business tactics is the only reason windows won. Apple was significantly better (nothing fuzzy about it) from day one (*nix based...) and it did not win. But here we are 30 years later and apple is far from dead(better?).
I wish I could remember where I heard this, somewhere online no doubt. But "better" is irrelivant, the true essences of linux and windows (the kernels) are damn near equal. Windows stands out in terms of funding and the number of funded 3rd party developers (aka market share). Climbing up from the bottom today would be very difficult. But here comes Ubuntu making some small, tiny in fact, waves. And *nix has found a big foothold in servers and smartphones......
time will tell
as for now I use linux