cold water on linux

[Net Llama!]

On Sat, 24 Apr 2004, M.W. Chang wrote:
> >> I don't think Linux and her applications (openoffice, xfree86,
> >> KDE/GNOME, multimedia, samba, ..) are ready to take the giant.
> > I disagree - on the ones you named. There is not 2% of the people whose
> > needs would not be fully met by that list. There are other areas where
> > Linux apps are either missing or deficient but the ones you listed are
> > well beyond "good enough".
>
> They may be good enough in faetures, but in ease of use, which is how M$

Apparently you've never tried to setup an Exchange server, or tried to
keep IIS from getting 0wn3d.

> makes her money. It's not easy to make samba with printing to work
> reliably (I meant those domain things). I don't see any new game titles
> for xfree86. and Gimp is still not in par with photoshop. KDE/GNOME is
> still very resource demanding.

KDE/GNOME will run on a P133 with 64MB RAM.  Try doing the same with
WinXP.

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