CaptNKILL
10-15-07, 08:59 AM
WTF. Why should Windows be the authoritative source on computing standards?
ReactOS is buggy, tried it, BSOD's like crazy.
I don't know what it is ghost.
I know, I'm more familiar with Windows so that definitely makes me biased, but like you said before, Linux just isn't for the average joe.
I've actually been pretty surprised at how clunky and glitchy things have been and its probably driver related, but processes you have to go through to install drivers and configure them properly are just way out there.
In Windows, you click the file, and you click buttons. If you have a rough idea of what to do next, you look for the button to accomplish that task.
In Linux, you're presented with a folder full of files you can't directly use along with a blank command prompt. You have to know precisely what characters to put in the right places to run a specific command to do things that equate to a single click in windows. And since far fewer things are automated, you have to do this more often.
I can see all the potential that Linux has, and how it offers infinite control to the user... but it seems forced. If a user just wants to install a program but hasn't been exposed to 40 character long keyboard commands before, there should be a windows-like "just freakin do it" button that installs the program.
It must be something deep down in the guts of Linux itself that stops distros from getting away from the command line, even if just for one single distro. I know they have come a long way in the past 10 years, but overall you're still left scouring billions of online documents looking for the words you need to type in to accomplish something.
I have a lot of respect for you linux users. Windows has spoiled me with automated, simplified functions to do the things I need to do, and I just can't bring myself to go back to all the DOS-like command lines I hated back in the 90s. I wish I hadn't been so spoiled all these years, and I know I'm dumber because of it, but thats just sorta how it happened.
I wish there were more Linux gurus out there that had been this in-grained with windows and decided to make a Linux distro that did what Windows did well (no, not collect spyware) rather than what every other Linux distro does.
ReactOS is buggy, tried it, BSOD's like crazy.
I don't know what it is ghost.
I know, I'm more familiar with Windows so that definitely makes me biased, but like you said before, Linux just isn't for the average joe.
I've actually been pretty surprised at how clunky and glitchy things have been and its probably driver related, but processes you have to go through to install drivers and configure them properly are just way out there.
In Windows, you click the file, and you click buttons. If you have a rough idea of what to do next, you look for the button to accomplish that task.
In Linux, you're presented with a folder full of files you can't directly use along with a blank command prompt. You have to know precisely what characters to put in the right places to run a specific command to do things that equate to a single click in windows. And since far fewer things are automated, you have to do this more often.
I can see all the potential that Linux has, and how it offers infinite control to the user... but it seems forced. If a user just wants to install a program but hasn't been exposed to 40 character long keyboard commands before, there should be a windows-like "just freakin do it" button that installs the program.
It must be something deep down in the guts of Linux itself that stops distros from getting away from the command line, even if just for one single distro. I know they have come a long way in the past 10 years, but overall you're still left scouring billions of online documents looking for the words you need to type in to accomplish something.
I have a lot of respect for you linux users. Windows has spoiled me with automated, simplified functions to do the things I need to do, and I just can't bring myself to go back to all the DOS-like command lines I hated back in the 90s. I wish I hadn't been so spoiled all these years, and I know I'm dumber because of it, but thats just sorta how it happened.
I wish there were more Linux gurus out there that had been this in-grained with windows and decided to make a Linux distro that did what Windows did well (no, not collect spyware) rather than what every other Linux distro does.