But for all of the problems......

[Mark Wallace]

But for all of the first month glitches that 7.04 is showing, It's hard
to deny that it is a fantastic thing.  I see a hundred little bug fixes
from previous versions.  It has definitely passed Windoze in the
diversity of it's offerings and it's overall versatility.

For some hours, I have been listening to steaming audio from Australia.
Windoze usually has a program called the Viewpoint media player.  One of
it's functions is to cut you off for inactivity from streaming audio.
Some streaming programs might not work if you don't have it.

I had the same station on for five hours and it stayed connected.
Viewpoint would have cut me off by now.

I think though that it is important for newcomers to see that Linux is
not one monolithic program but is a serious of programs.  You wouldn't
junk Windows because one video streamer didn't work well, so why do that
with Linux?  You try to debug it or try another program.

The old saying on Wall Street is that it isn't a stock market, it is a
market of stocks.  The same is true for Linux.