Topic 4 "Reasons" to Dump Linux

-HAL-

Reason number one: Linux is boring. When I run Linux, I don't have the excitement of wondering whether an e-mail, IM, or Web page is going to give my system the latest worm or virus. Where's the fun in that?

Reason number two: Linux is a pain to set up. With Linux, you need to put in a CD or DVD, hit the enter button, give your computer a name, and enter a password for the administrator account.

Reason number three: Linux is expensive. Linux is often free, but look at all that time you spend setting it up. Most people will end up buying new PCs with Vista preinstalled.

Reason number four: Linux doesn't have enough apps. Most Linux systems come only with secure Web browsers, like Firefox 2.0; e-mail clients, like Evolution 2.6 and Thunderbird 2.0; IM clients, like Gaim 1.5; office suites, like Open­Office.org 2.0.4; and so on. .....

You can read the entire "story" here..
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2074985,00.asp

Sunb!

Hehe, read the full article on the website and had a laugh. It is true what he wrote.

impilcature

Knoppix and Red Hat:

are the only distros that i have tried. Both of them i installed on my machine as the sole system. My problem with Knoppix was the learning curve and at the time i could not wrap my linksys wireless windows driver with a good linux compatible wrap. Red Hat overwhelmed me.

Another problem i have is i haven't found many ummm.... "torrent media" that is set up for linux. now this may mean that all dvd converters and things of this sort are free in linux but i don't know.

Basically what it all comes down to is i know a fair bit about windows and i am SCARED to try and learn all of this in linux... but i really really really want to.

johnblack

if there was no problems with drivers and linux had more games then i would have definatly changed to linux...