On Sunday 22 February 2004 4:11 pm, Jeff Vian wrote: > xyzzy@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >On Sunday 22 February 2004 11:38 am, WipeOut wrote: > >>xyzzy@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >>>... for the foreseeable future on my home system. > > snip > > >>>I have real problems seeing how Linux is going to make it to the desktop > >>>by 2005 with these kinds of road-blocks. > >>> > >>>Sad. > >> > >>Obviously by the fact that you felt the need to post you message here > >>you are looking for some kind of confirmation about you decision.. The > >>people in this mailing list are all Linux users so I doubt you will get > >>any.. > > > >No, I'm not looking for some kind of confirmation. I am looking for a > > system that works, and Linux is not working for me. What, are you saying > > that "Linux users" comprise some sort of religion? > > > >I use Linux at work... I am a kernel hacker at work. That is my job. > > Redhat 9 works for me at work because the motherboard is not completely > > state of the art. > > > >I am not looking for any sort of consensus or support for my "decision". > > I would rather that Linux worked for me. It doesn't and THAT is what I am > > bothered by. It seems that all of the problems with SMP systems locking > > up are not being addressed... where are the fixes for the bugs in > > BugZilla? Where is the vaunted Open Source community in all of this? > > The Open Source Community includes YOU. > > If you have specific complaints about functionality or desired features, > and you fail to voice those problems via bugzilla or the forum/mailing > lists then you by default are accepting things as they are. Well, these particular issues (SMP system lockup, etc...) are all over Bugzilla with nary a fix in sight after quite a long time. I also HAVE posted here with my problem and got redirected to these same bug reports. > > I agree with the earlier poster who said you are simply looking for > confirmation on your decision. If I was merely looking for confirmation for my decision I wouldn't have opened myself up to a flame war by posting something like this to a Linux group, now would I? > > I, for one, would rather put up with things that are not exactly right > and tell people what changes I would like, than have to put up with an > OS that limits me to doing what the vendor wants me to do, and makes me > subject to the vendors idea of what I want. Again, so would I... but this presupposes that I can get that "liberating" OS to even work on my hardware. > > >>As you said you "have a lot of computer experience" so all I will say is > >>enjoy the viruses and worms, the BSOD's, the reinstalls when the > >>registry get full of crap, the annual licencing, the having to register > >>you products with MS and then having to call them up when you have to > >>reinstall, the locking down you freedom to save the files you want > >>without being hit by DRM systems and the freedom in general to have the > >>ability to rebuild the system as you want it not to be forced into their > >>meida player, web browser and MSN services.. > > > >I agree with all of this which is why I wanted to put Linux on my home > >desktop. > > > >However, even with all of M$ garbage, the bottom line is that their > > garbage works on my system and Linux does not.
