[Tfug] 2 weeks of Hackintosh fun..

[keith smith]

I would agree.

I use both Windows and Linux because each gives me something I want or need.

A little off topic for this post... I wish there were some visual development environments for open source like Visual FoxPro or Visual Basic had.  Those were nice in my opinion.  Wish I had a tool like that for PHP/MySql development. 



--- On Sun, 11/9/08, Bowie J. Poag <bpoag at comcast.net> wrote:
From: Bowie J. Poag <bpoag at comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [Tfug] 2 weeks of Hackintosh fun..
To: "Tucson Free Unix Group" <tfug at tfug.org>
Date: Sunday, November 9, 2008, 2:47 PM

We had a little experiment where I work... Our team lead asked that we all use
Ubuntu as our primary desktop. Not a problem for me, since i've been using
Linux for like 10 years.. I can get around anything that poses itself as a
problem.  A few months in, the non-Linux-literate among us wishes to go back to
Windows..even though they hate Windows.. They want to go back to Windows because
desktop Linux is flaky, functionally and visually inconsistent, crash-prone,
confusing, and frustrating....And these are people who've been working in IT
for a decade or more. BETTER test subjects than average users.

The proof is in the numbers... If it was ready for prime time, it would be
already.

Cheers,
Bowie











Andrew Ayre wrote:
> My wife uses Ubuntu. She is not into computers and doesn't really care
what is running. But she uses Ubuntu without problems to:
> 
>   - email
>   - look at web pages and videos
>   - transfer pictures from her digital camera and edit them
>   - create documents and spreadsheets
>   - print
>   - write reminder notes
>   - play games
> 
> I set her up with Ubuntu because it doesn't crash or break while she
is using it. I was tired of endless XP problems.
> 
> I guess the real work you do is something other than this? Please be more
specific. Thanks.
> 
> Andy
> 
> Bexley Hall wrote:
>> But, if you're using a machine to get *real* work done, Linux (and
>> damn near all the other "free" OS's) is usually not the
right way
>> to go about it!
> 


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