Posted on 05/01/2007 7:03:31 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
LOL
“MS Works” is one of my favorite oxymorons. :-)
I downloaded Ubuntu on an old computer. I liked it except for the fact that Apple doesn’t support Quicktime and iTunes for it. And WMV from windows. Being that I like watching movie trailers and various humorous videos online, this is really a deal breaker for me. But those are really the only problems I have with it.
Your response is misdirected. I was referring to the "car and engine" analogy, where Linux and Microsoft design the software and other manufacturers design the hardware. In that situation, the operating system is targeted to generic, lowest common denominator type of hardware - resulting in a less-than-optimal system. In contrast, Apple designs both the hardware and the software with better component integration to maximize the quality of the system.
Regarding office software for Macs - Apple does include a free 30-day trial period for the iWork package (word processor and presentation software for $80). There are rumors that Apple will provide the next version of iWork for free on new Macs, and will add a spreadsheet to the suite. This could happen in October when Mac OS X 10.5 is released.
I’m not impressed with Ubuntu in the least...I just simply don’t need the training wheels. Ubuntu doesn’t even come close to making my top 10. Glad to see Dell offering a choice though. Any of you OSSers tried PC Linux OS?? I’m liking it alot. It offers a nice blend of easy installation, tweakability, and doesn’t make the assumption that you’re losing two drops of sweat with every mouse click and constantly re-assuring you that everything is going to be okay.
Now of course you’re focusing on the fact it took dell two years and not the fact they got spanked into the number two spot and have had thousands upon thousands of customers ask for it.
This is good news for Dell, Consumers, and Linux. Myself I would have preferred they went with RedHat who has not painted themselves into the corner of only OSS but not having a huge amount of experience with Ubuntu I cant spit on Dells decision. You’re lack of insight never stops you though.
No I haven't, I've been correcting the lies that it already had happened as for the months if not years we've seen these threads. But as other posters on this thread admit, you STILL can't get a standard desktop from Dell with Linux on it LOL.
"Dell got very rich and very famous selling computers that run Windows. He knows most of the Linux crowd builds their own boxes and despise the future (DRM). Obviously based onhis actions he cares little for their supposed plight, nor should he." -- Golden Eagle
"Dell is insulating his home users from the trauma of having to deal with it." -- Golden Eagle
And one of my favorites..
"They're still not planning on actually shipping any systems with Linux pre-installed." --
Why should I bother with Ubuntu? I’m perfectly happy with the MSFT.
Out of the countless threads created here over the months/years falsely claiming Dell was shipping Linux on desktops, and that’s the best you can find? LOL funniest of all Dell STILL isn’t shipping Linux on home desktops. No, funniest of ALL is how your lives seem to rotate around free software backed by leftists and given away for free.
When the weather man says its going to snow in 24 hours do you run to the window and, seeing no snow at the moment, call him a liar? Thats basically what you have been doing for literally months.
Dell is going to put Linux on the desktop.. And you thought they never would..
Because these guys fiercely believe in "free software" as trumpeted by leftist radical Richard Stallman (stallman.org). They constantly create these threads pimping anything and everything to do with free software, then when called on it admit there's tons of leftists fanatics behind free software, but then go right back to pushing it. Search for the word "leftist" in halfman's posting history to see what I mean.
There’s been countless threads claiming Dell was already shipping or imminently shipping Linux which were all false. LOL don’t act innocent, you’re still going around claiming Windows 2000 is “unsupported” even though anyone can continue to automatically receive security updates till 2010! Anything you think you can get away with to push free software on others.
Then, you should not.
A good question is:
Why should you bother jumping on this thread when you have never used the product and start to pan it?
I don’t use this “ubuntu” and I will never use “ubuntu” after hearing Bill Clinton talk about “ubuntu” either. There’s tons of leftists behind free software, the DNC runs all their servers on it, Howard Dean talks about “open source politics” and they even have a site named “demzilla.com” as a tribute. That’s why.
Short on reading comprehension today, need coffee? what do you think I meant when I sad disagreement about workstation vs. desktop debate? Yes there were a couple of threads which, if you consider dell 'workstations' to be something other than a suped up desktop would have been wrong and if you consider these 'workstations' to be just a high end desktop would have been right. The whole desktop / workstation thing is a moving target and there is nothing definitive out there (from say IEEE) saying what the difference between the classes in the market place should be. Currently its all about marketing. Its that whole 'lets have an adult discussion' rather than 'lets run around picking fights' thing again, look into it.
The *vast* majority of threads, especially in the past couple of months have been about dell *starting* to offer Linux on their lower end desktops. In these threads you have openly mocked the idea it would happen..
LOL don’t act innocent .....
blah blah blah, stay on topic and stop thread jumping the mod has warned you about such things and I have told you I'm not getting dragged into a two yo thread every time you don't like the way a conversation is going. IMO talking about this thread and this topic if you care to join me please continue.
So you are not qualified to comment on how user friendly or stable it is.
Bill Clinton talk about “ubuntu” either.
Yea after heing him tell a kid that an Apple a day keeps the doctor away I swore off the mac /sarc
See post #51. Golden Eagle said it all.
To a man the people who he groups in with 'they' have called stallamn a nut job and a waco and wish he would just go away. And your first post in this thread had nothing to do with that it was trying to slam an OS you dont use and have no experience with.
if MS works for you *great* I am really happy that you have the right tool for you to use. and if in 10 years MS marketshare is even higher than today *great* so long as consumers have choice what they choose is fine by me (and for that matter most people who ge calls 'they').
I don’t care if it cooks me breakfast after making up my bed every morning, it’s backed by leftists at the top and their brainwashed disciples at the bottom and I won’t be using it. It’s just a cheap clone of Apple’s OSX anyway, if I wanted that I’d get the real deal.
^^^^^^^^^^^^Your response is misdirected. I was referring to the “car and engine” analogy, where Linux and Microsoft design the software and other manufacturers design the hardware.^^^^^^^^^^^^
Fair enough.
^^^^^^^^^^^^There are rumors that Apple will provide the next version of iWork for free on new Macs, and will add a spreadsheet to the suite. This could happen in October when Mac OS X 10.5 is released.^^^^^^^^^^
Good for them. And for their customers’ sake, I hope it happens.
Call me pro added-value. :-P
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