RE: Wireless PCMCIA

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jack..

you talk as a die hard guy who's drinking the koolaid... i already said linux was/is great for some things.. however, it's not good for the desktop at this time...

you can argue about linux being great.. but that the apps to run it aren't.. that's a specious argument, but the bottom line is that i still wouldn't put the desktop apps on linux and hand it to my mother!!

peace..



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[mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jack Gates
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 9:26 PM
To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Wireless PCMCIA


On Wednesday 12 July 2006 00:44, bruce wrote:
> jack,...
>
> chill out!

No problem, I am not hot.  I just think it is really stupid for any one to 
bash Linux on a Linux mailing list and then think that they might get warm 
friendly help after doing so.  My problem is I'm just not very tactful at 
times so I appear angry. :)

>
> i fully feel the guy regarding his wireless issues... linux is a pain in
> the royal a@s no doubt...
>
> there's no way linux is ready for the desktop, and there's no way that
> anyone without laughing, can say it's in the windows league for ease of
> use.. it's getting there, but it's not there yet.. and that's cool...

I disagree on which OS is in the superior league.  Linux, Macintosh and Unix 
are all built on the same architecture and MS Windows is all by itself (by 
design).  MS Windows (w/IE) is full of security holes (especially on the 
Internet), Linux is not.

Unix came from the Main Frame days of the 50s.  Unix is a great desktop 
workstation but it cost too much and there are no applications for the home 
user on the retail shelves.  Linux is nearly an identical clone to Unix.  
There also are few if any Linux Distros on retail shelves either.  The one 
area that MS Windows does dominate is the retail shelf.

Applications that crash on Linux don't bring the OS down but they do on MS 
Windows.  I use to have MS Windows crash even without an application crash.  
I have not had a Linux OS crash.  I have had several applications crash but 
not cripple the OS.  I have an old Dell Inspiron that worked fine for several 
years, then I upgraded some of the apps on MS Windows and it started crashing 
several times a day.  Those upgrades were not reversible so I was stuck.  I 
switched to Mandrake 9.1 and the crashing stopped.  Before long I had all my 
Desk tops running on Mandrake 9.2.  Then I tried to go to Mandrake 10.0 the 
hardware and Mandrake 10 did not play nice.  I switched to FC2 and again the 
problems went away.

The problem is not with Linux not working as easy as MS Windows the problem is 
with the hardware and software manufactures and vendors not wanting to 
support or help Linux achieve the inevitable of becoming the dominate desktop 
OS.

> i like some of what linux provides, but i sure wouldn't allow my mom
> anywhere near it!!!

Why not!  My boxes ran on FC2 for two years without me messing with the set up 
and they ran for months before I would shut them down only because of 
external power loss that was going to kill my power back up.

Your mother could have easily checked and sent e-mail, surfed the web, used a 
spread sheet and never had a problem with one of those boxes.  She probably 
would not notice any difference either.  The only people that would know they 
aren't on MS Windows are the ones that use it all the time.  A desktop and 
web browser all look pretty much the same to a novice user.

> as far as the wireless issue goes, it gets into a driver issue. a good deal
> of the drivers that are used for wireless cards have elements that are
> proprietary licenesed...which gets into the issue of gpl, etc...
>
> things will slowly get worked out... it'll simply take time..
>
> -bruce
>
>


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