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[Michael T. Richter]

On Fri, 2006-28-04 at 10:09 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:

> > That's basically where we've been stuck for years. It's
> > childish, and I just wish we'd stop. We have better things
> > to do.



> Speak for yourself :-)  Personally, I enjoy the odd MS bash.  Particularly
> after I've just spent hours doing something in Windows that I could have
> done in minutes in Linux, if I'd been given the liberty to choose the
> platform.


You do realise, of course, that the reverse happens as well?  I still
haven't got Bluetooth working worth a damn under Ubuntu.  It was about
five minutes' effort to get full functionality out of my phone
(including HID!) under Windows using exactly the same Bluetooth
hardware.  Five minutes vs. about five months (and counting!).  Then
there's the audio problem.  I have usable audio, now, but only from the
crappy onboard audio system.  The USB audio system works, but Ubuntu
really doesn't like having two audio devices.  It switches from one to
the other seemingly at random.  Then the poor thing gets utterly
confused, locks up tight as a drum and it's the proverbial "Big Red
Switch" time.  (The switch in question is small and black, but the term
still stands for historical reasons.)  So far I've managed to dodge the
printing bullet, but I expect in the relatively near future to need a
printer attached as printing in the office is inconvenient.  I've heard
nothing good about setting up printing under Ubuntu either.

Finally, as a more salient note, perhaps, I've encountered a lot of
people who "couldn't get things done in Windows".  Almost invariably
it's because they didn't know how to get it done and tried it the UNIX
way.  Or, worse, they thought it couldn't be done and didn't try it at
all.  (I'm soooooooo tired of people saying that there's no links --
symbolic or otherwise -- in Windows' file systems....)

--
Michael T. Richter
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