Windows Nearly Ready For Desktop Use

[Matthew Carpenter]

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| Windows Nearly Ready For Desktop Use                               |
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|   posted by Zonk on Friday May 27, @19:58 (Microsoft)              |
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wallykeyster writes "NewsForge (ed: a Slashdot sister site) has an
interesting review of Windows XP Home, written from [0]the perspective of
a longtime Linux user (ed: Editor [1]roblimo). The article clearly is
intended to be somewhat humorous while making a point to the 'Linux isn't
ready for the desktop' crowd. The reviewer does a fair job of pointing
out the strengths of Windows along with the weaknesses that would be
apparent to someone trying to make the switch from Linux." From the
article: "Windows XP can't be considered consumer-ready until it has
driver support for common LCD monitors during its installation and bootup
procedure, especially if those monitors are easily and routinely
recognized by popular Linux distributions. It's possible that the monitor
manufacturers aren't willing to give Microsoft and other proprietary
operating system companies the information they need to create
appropriate drivers and that the manufacturers, not Microsoft, deserve
the blame for this problem."

Discuss this story at:
    http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=05/05/27/214215

Links:
    0. http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/05/18/2033216
    1. https://slashdot.org/~Roblimo/



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