amosf

Enough said there by the looks. If you are too lazy to read posts about the subject, or too lazy to read up on a new OS, then why bother.

If you want to just rant, then how about a blog?

You own post was also quite long, BTW.

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patrickv

oh them good ol linux threads, oh well.
in my opinion linux is good for home users but not office users.
i once had the idea of installing ubuntu/Pclinux on some machines here (to avoid virus issue) but the work we do and the software we use is not available for linux and we need productivity.
As for home you can spend countless hours searching for an alternativ software to your favourite dvd player or ripper but at work we don't have that kind of time.
But oh well, it really depends on the person in my opinion.

@ the OP - wow nice rant....haha

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PhilBiker

I did a similar thing in the 90s with IBM OS/2. However, instead of taking a few days I used it for about 6 years. I bought version 2.0 through 3, I bought the DeScribe word processor and the Lotus SmartSuite. I bought "ColorWorks" a great multithreaded picture editing package. This was before open source, but the shareware/freeware/private label software community was actually fairly robust for OS/2. I had some games and a great tax prep program for about 3-4 years. Netscape released a browser, there were cool MP3 players and the Windows 3.x support was just about perfect. - Just about. I could never get my MIDI sequencing stuff to work -quite right- under Win-OS2. SOmetimes it was OK, but more reliable under Win. I had triple boot - Win3.1/95, NT 4, and OS/2. I had originally used Windows NT 3.51 so I found a way to hack the 3.51 HPFS (OS/2 native file system) drivers into NT 4.

I had lots of fun tinkering and learned a LOT about that OS. The UI was fantastic, without peer.

The day I upgraded my Winodws 98SE computer to Windows Me I gave up on it. By then, it was obvious that OS/2 was a tiny niche and the only thing I was really doing with it was having fun with a hobby. I decided that instead of tinkering with my computer as a hobby I would like to just use the damn thing. I ditched OS/2 and NT 4 and went to Windows Me and was a happier computer user.

So yeah. I understand. It's fun to fiddle, but if you just want to sit and use mainstream software to actually do stuff, Windows is King.

alienationware

It's not the sound hardware that has no support, or sux in Linux, it's the lack of universal sound enhancement software (universal as in all system sounds [games, music, movies, etc.] must pass thru this software before being delivered to the speakers). Go download the trial version of SRS Audio Sandbox for Windows, and tell me that the same song on really expensive speaker systems won't sound so much better on Windows (with SRS) than Linux (without an audio enhancer).

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