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More than anything else, I'd just say that doing any task in Linux is a battle. Once you understand the system and configure things to your liking it is a drea
by SquareWheel 15y ago
More than anything else, I'd just say that doing any task in Linux is a battle. Once you understand the system and configure things to your liking it is a dream, but as a new user you'll be spending hours in config files and searching Google, and users don't want that.
This is Hacker News. Most of us know our way around a terminal. But real users don't, any real users drive the market.
- jiggy2011 15y agoThis is partly because the most popular distro (ubuntu) has some pretty stupid defaults. For example: Default install will not give you flash support or support for codecs like WMV. Default fonts are enormous If you have an Nvidia/ATI graphics card you will not get a proper driver unless you know how to specifically install it.
- gillianseed 14y agoWell, shipping codecs means they have to pay royalties, os'es like Windows and OSX bake that cost into their asking price, Ubuntu is free. Also the codes are likely only an apt-get away. Don't know about the fonts as I don't run Ubuntu. As for NVidia/ATI drivers, back when I was on Windows (many years ago) you pretty much had to install the drivers directly from the vendors in order to get decent performance as the ones shipped were awful and generally old, is that no the case anymore? Still, getting these driver are also just one apt-get away unless I'm mistaken?