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Re: Back to reality

: What a totally biased article.

Which freely translated means "I disagree with this article", well, that's your prerogative of course.

: I do wish that when people write articles
: like the one I am commenting on they
: would make that point clear.

I think, as the other commentator mentioned that the fact that it was a named comment piece, that was a given. What you have the problem with is that you don't agree with it.

: Everyone is welcome to their opinion, but
: don't try to present them as fact.

So you wouldn't mind it if another comment piece made claims and stated opinions that you DID agree with then??!

So, to my comments,

: What is the "Linux Desktop" the author mentions ?
: There is no such thing.
: There are oodles of them - so which one is
: the author refering to ?

I think the author will have been referring one of the two main front ends, Gnome and KDE. In terms of the user interaction, they are now almost indistinguishable, and deliberately so. I suspect that in a few more years they will all but merge.

: He mentions KDE4 - this ( in my opinion ) is
: the most bloated, un-user friendly desktop
: I have come across is years.

Once again, you are welcome to your opinions, but I have to say that Vista takes the biscuit as far as bloated and slow. I recently converted a friends all but unusable Vista laptop to Fedora 9 and the speed up was incredible. It was a completely different machine thereafter. I was using Gnome, but I haven't really noticed that much difference between the two wrt speed.

: OK - Vista needs a modern PC for it to work
: well, but these are very cheap now ( mine
: cost £140 from Tesco and is brill ).

Where "Modern" is a code word for a machine that would be considered a supercomputer scant few years ago. Two gigs of RAM as a minimum??! scary.

: 2.1 Windows has by far the better applications
: available of the 3 ( although you have to pay
: for them normally )

Rubbish, it doesn't have Evolution, or Gimp, or Rhythmbox, or Ekiga, or MythTV, it's got nothing that I use every day !!

So what you actually meant here was that it doesn't have the Windows only apps that you use every day. This is not the same thing as saying that it cannot do the things that you do every day, just not the way you do them today. What a shock. It's a different OS.

: 2.3 Linux - which distribution do you want
: there are so many [...]

So if it's Windows it's "What do you want to do today" where variety and choice is a good thing. If it's Linux you're talking about though, variety and choice is a bad thing.

Your comment screams that you are easily as biased as you accuse the article of being. You just assume that being biased in favour of one of the largest, richest, criminal enterprises on the planet is kosher, but giving props to a system that is now up there with the other top performers can only be a biased puff piece.

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