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Gnome cofounder: Desktop Linux is a CHERNOBYL of FAIL
The Register ^ | 03/05/2013 | Neil McAllister

Posted on 03/21/2013 2:06:17 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: EricT.

“And (hallelujah!) STEAM has started porting games to Linux!!!! I was playing Half Life last weekend without using Wine.”

I need to do this.


21 posted on 03/21/2013 7:22:46 PM PDT by AppyPappy (You never see a massacre at a gun show.)
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To: Duke Nukum

I used Ubuntu.... not as nice and friendly as adds say..... I suggest you try out Mint (Cinn is pretty... Mate is better if you don’t care about eye candy... but KDE is complete control, with accessibility)...


22 posted on 03/21/2013 7:24:46 PM PDT by Bikkuri (Molon Labe)
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To: dfwgator

Chjeers, and exactly... only gripe I have about Mint.. is NO encryption ... :p but I still use it, no one can change my mind ;)

( I encrypt the non-boot... only way around Mint’s only weakness)..


23 posted on 03/21/2013 7:28:21 PM PDT by Bikkuri (Molon Labe)
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To: AppyPappy

Cinn and Mate hate another problem I didn’t mention... the logging ( HDD read/write rate) is terrible... that is why I changed to KDE in the first place.. :p

I love KDE, and would go no other way since... but you mentioned Virus... not the OS’s fault..


24 posted on 03/21/2013 7:31:50 PM PDT by Bikkuri (Molon Labe)
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To: ShadowAce

Linux rocks


25 posted on 03/21/2013 8:52:59 PM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: SeekAndFind

Linux is alpha quality software for the desktop, but some of the live cd’s are very good for rescue.


26 posted on 03/21/2013 9:08:41 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: SeekAndFind

well duh. Linux on the desktop is for geeks not everyday users.


27 posted on 03/22/2013 6:31:13 AM PDT by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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To: Yossarian

And that is the problem with Linux on the desktop. You can’t easily take a program that works on Linux and run it on all versions of Linux like you can on OSX and Windows.


28 posted on 03/22/2013 6:35:43 AM PDT by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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To: for-q-clinton

RE: Linux on the desktop is for geeks not everyday users.

So, are they planning to make it more user friendly to make it appeal more widely, or is the target customer always going to be limited to geeks?

I’d really like to see a viable challenge to the over 90% dominance of Windows on the desktop.


29 posted on 03/22/2013 7:06:06 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

GNOME sucks. Always has.

I’ve been using KDE since 1.x.


30 posted on 03/22/2013 7:13:47 AM PDT by B Knotts (Just another Tenther)
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To: SeekAndFind

BTW, I also have a Mac. But I use Linux with KDE most of the time. I find it more productive than using Mac OS.


31 posted on 03/22/2013 7:15:10 AM PDT by B Knotts (Just another Tenther)
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To: B Knotts
BTW, I also have a Mac. But I use Linux with KDE most of the time. I find it more productive than using Mac OS.

Same here!



32 posted on 03/22/2013 11:09:58 AM PDT by rdb3 (I'm NOT a movement conservative. I'm a conservative in the movement.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I can’t see them ever fixing that issue with Linux. The issue is geeks will always push different things and they will never agree on one or even two flavors of Linux. So there is no way for them to fix this and run applications natively. OSX is the only option to windows that is end-user friendly.


33 posted on 03/22/2013 12:07:33 PM PDT by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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To: Greysard

Well Stated. Very few linux users see the types of problems this guy finds. If he starts to rework and fiddle with programs on a Mac or Win machine, he would have even more problems... especially since he would not be able to work from source code.


34 posted on 03/27/2013 4:59:03 AM PDT by AFPhys ((Praying for our troops, our citizens, that the Bible and Freedom become basis of the US law again))
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To: Bikkuri

Sounds like you managed to install your Linux with one or more partition being on “cylinder” boundary rather than on “4096 byte” boundary. That yields write speeds about 1/3 what they ought to be on SATA disks.


35 posted on 03/27/2013 11:48:04 PM PDT by AFPhys ((Praying for our troops, our citizens, that the Bible and Freedom become basis of the US law again))
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