[gameprogrammer] yawvlff(yet another windows versus linux flame fest, yawn) Re: Re: OTP: deleting porn

On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 11:54, Neil Griffiths wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> AO> No, you are right. That's why companies like Mandrake, Lindows, 
> AO> Conectiva, etc are focusing in user friendly distros. They do work out
> AO> of the box.
> 
> Yes, but still with a choice of windows managers.

Ok, this one bugs me. Why does it bother you to have more than one
window manager? It just do not understand that?

Anyway, time to dial it back a little bit. This is getting to be a flame
fest rather than a constructive discussion. Try to keep this topic on
something that affects game programming or drop it.

Now, when I say "something that affects game programming" I include
things like market share and difficulty in running a game on a given
platform. So, problems with the usability of an OS are valid things to
discuss, but when it starts getting into the difficulty of deleting
based on pattern matching... well that is just silly.

Oh yeah, lets change the title? 

My take on the whole thing? People like what they are used to. Windows
will stay popular in the US for many years. The rest of the world is
another question. As the cost of computers keeps going down the price of
the OS becomes a larger and larger portion of the cost. That means that
by the time 50% of the people on earth can afford a computer the OS will
have to drop in price to only a few dollars, or be free. Microsoft can
not afford to give away its OS, so most of the world will learn Linux as
their first, and only, OS.

The more people that use Linux, the more developers will work on the OS
and the applications and it just keeps getting better. 

Eventually most US corporations will be forced to switch either to be
compatible with their foreign customers or their foreign divisions. They
will also start to see MS as an unneeded cost. 

This will all take at least 10 years to play out. But, you can see it
happening right now.

One thing that people forget about Linux is that it is not a product
with point releases. It is a process. When you say "Linux has such and
such a problem" it doesn't mean that much because it may not have the
problem now and it won't have the problem next year, or maybe the year
after that. Every Monday I check to see if there are enough updates to
justify updating my OS. Once or twice a month I download all the patches
that have been applied to all the software I use. My systems just get
better every time I do that. 

It used to be that using Linux on a desktop was a hardship. Now that you
can buy a Linux computer at Walmart or Fry's that just isn't true
anymore.

                        Bob Pendleton

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