[SlugLUG] Linux Is Not A Desktop Solution

[Peter Belew]

Well yeah, the market is way too small and the UI's aren't so good
for gaming software to be developed. Someone also mentioned
that Windows faces competition from gaming consoles, as well.
I personally am not into gaming, but I'm aware of some issues
there.

A friend I hadn't seen in 20 years emailed me a couple of days ago -
in the ensuing exchange of emails he mentioned that he'd tried to
use OpenOffice in his work, and there were compatibility and
performance issues that caused him to return to MS products.

I haven't looked at StarOffice lately - it may well be better than the
free product:

  http://www.sun.com/software/star/staroffice/index.jsp

OpenOffice has sufficed for my purposes, but there are issues for
people who need to do VB scripting etc. - OpenOffice has its own,
incompatible scripting language.

Another annoyance that affects me is the disagreement between
MS and web standards groups over jscript vs ecmascript/javascript
and CSS and font size standards. It wouldn't surprise me if these
issues are being brought up in the legal proceedings in the EEU
against MS. This is largely separate from Linux issues per se, since
the various non-MS browsers are cross-platform developments.
(Most of the programming I do now is in PHP and an occasional
amount of ecmascript on Apache).

Peter

On 5/1/06, Rohan Sheth <rohan at rohan.ws> wrote:
>
> Peter Belew wrote:
> > I could add to that somewhat random use of quote marks. But Rohan's
> > response to my criticism was a bit better than the original piece.
> > And of course linux (so far) has had limited appeal to gamers, for
> > various economic and technical reasons.
> Hey hey, a tad bit of agreement on the gaming side... =)
> --Rohan
> >
> > I appreciate Nacho's long commentary, especially.
> >
> >  - Peter
> >
> > On 5/1/06, *Rick Moen* <rick at linuxmafia.com
> > <mailto:rick at linuxmafia.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Quoting Rohan Sheth (rohan at rohan.ws <mailto:rohan at rohan.ws>):
> >
> >     > Here's a little piece which I have been working on this past
> >     week.  I'd
> >     > love some feedback on changes before I ask an IRC-Buddy to have to
> >     > posted on SlashDot.
> >
> >     It's a pretty sloppily written and badly conceived OS rant pervaded
> by
> >     factual errors, irrelevancies, random capitalisation, somewhat
> >     confused
> >     logic, and basic rhetoric errors like leading with your
> >     conclusions.  I
> >     hope at least that it was fun to write.  ;->
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