Linux is not good for Desktop

[Frederick N. Brier]

This obviously has the potential to become a religious argument, but the 
answer has to be it depends on what you use your computer for.  A lot of 
people just do email and browsing, which is why the Chromebooks are 
selling like hot cakes.  Vista was a disaster and Windows 8 is not being 
well received because of the radical change in the UI and the increased 
hardware requirements.  Gnome 3 and the newer KDE ticked people off for 
the same reason.  Apple hardware tends to be more expensive.  I've been 
installing XP and Linux Mint on a lot of people's older hardware because 
it lets them continue to use it. I run Fedora 20, although I have Linux 
Mint on a stick.  While some of the multimedia support could be better, 
programs like Chrome don't crash as often and the memory management is 
better if you tend to push the limits.  Linux does suffer from needing 
more expertise, but how many Windows boxes are sitting in people's 
houses unused because of mis-configuration, trojans, viruses, or 
bloatware?  There is still more software for Windows, but between VMs, 
Wine and the occasional reboot to Windows 7 to play a game, I am pretty 
happy on Linux.  It is kind of neat to have a VM on one monitor, a 
remote desktop to a remote server, a shared drive between all 3, 
X-windows clients and terminals to other servers. It works for me.

Fred

On 01/29/2014 09:09 AM, Ramachandran Chidambaraiyer wrote:
>
> While discussing about Apple and its OS for Mac and Iphone, it was 
> mentioned that Linux has failed as an OS for Desktop. It includes 
> Ubuntu also.
> Do you agree with this.
> Ramachandran
>
>
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