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completely agree. Quality servers, definitely. Quality desktops? Gnome/KDE/other WMs are making inroads, but they are competing in an innovative market and it s

by yardie 17y ago

completely agree. Quality servers, definitely. Quality desktops? Gnome/KDE/other WMs are making inroads, but they are competing in an innovative market and it sucks to be third. Neither MS or Apple will let up the slack (after Vista) so even though Linux desktops look great compared to yesteryear's competitors they aren't looking very polished next to Win7/Snow leopard.

rbanffy 17y ago
That's the kind of perception people see when you use Linux for about two hours before getting back to their regular environments. It's the little things that make it a really high-quality experience and that makes it so hard to move to other platform after using it for a while. The font rendering is usually better than Windows (although somewhat worse than with Macs). Select text and middle-click somewhere else spares me a lot of keyboard-mice coordination. Compiz is outstanding, and it's not just eye-candy - the multi-desktop concept is amazing and works remarkably well as an organizing tool, and maximizing/tearing off windows with gestures - that's something Windows users had to wait until w7 to get. Then there is the smooth operation - no lockups when your Windows box is too busy to bother to move the mouse and no annoying beachball from hell either - if the computer is heavily loaded, it just becomes slower, gracefully. It's also the "I told it to do it and it just did" thing - never, ever being unable to delete a file because a crashed program opened it. The computer will never demand to be restarted in the middle of your e-mail, but, when you tell it to restart, no iTunes or Office will block you. I forget how many times I told my Windows notebook to restart and went on to grab coffee, just to learn that a certain program refused to quit and that program was more important than my order to the machine to restart. Who's in command after all? People often confuse quality with good-looking icons. That's not what it's about.

by yardie 17y ago

rbanffy 17y ago

That's the kind of perception people see when you use Linux for about two hours before getting back to their regular environments. It's the little things that make it a really high-quality experience and that makes it so hard to move to other platform after using it for a while. The font rendering is usually better than Windows (although somewhat worse than with Macs). Select text and middle-click somewhere else spares me a lot of keyboard-mice coordination. Compiz is outstanding, and it's not just eye-candy - the multi-desktop concept is amazing and works remarkably well as an organizing tool, and maximizing/tearing off windows with gestures - that's something Windows users had to wait until w7 to get. Then there is the smooth operation - no lockups when your Windows box is too busy to bother to move the mouse and no annoying beachball from hell either - if the computer is heavily loaded, it just becomes slower, gracefully. It's also the "I told it to do it and it just did" thing - never, ever being unable to delete a file because a crashed program opened it. The computer will never demand to be restarted in the middle of your e-mail, but, when you tell it to restart, no iTunes or Office will block you. I forget how many times I told my Windows notebook to restart and went on to grab coffee, just to learn that a certain program refused to quit and that program was more important than my order to the machine to restart. Who's in command after all? People often confuse quality with good-looking icons. That's not what it's about.