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It's not, not even remotely. You clearly haven't actually lived day-to-day with Linux or you'd know how buggy and unreliable the random drivers for less-than-p
by diminoten 8y ago
It's not, not even remotely. You clearly haven't actually lived day-to-day with Linux or you'd know how buggy and unreliable the random drivers for less-than-popular hardware actually is.
Further, you've clearly never had a critical outage happen during off hours. Try running to the community when your job is on the line at 3AM Christmas Day, let me know how responsive they are to you then.
You get the quality you pay for, and while the open source community is wonderful and amazing, it's done by people working for free, and subject to the whims of those people, which makes it A) unreliable B) inconsistent, and C) lower quality, on average.
- squarefoot 8y ago"Try running to the community when your job is on the line at 3AM Christmas Day" That's a bit extreme. Of course throwing a shitload of money at support contracts will give you helpdesks answering during holidays and drones flocking into the data center, but that applies only to a very small subset of hw/sw products where any outage can be fatal. The consumer market is just a bit different though.
- diminoten 8y agoIt's the opposite of extreme, it's reality for every company out there, and it's not a "very small subset" it's the majority of money. Besides, if your shit can't work when it counts, what good is it?