On 05/15/2010 05:40 AM, John B. Slocomb wrote:
> On Fri, 14 May 2010 18:53:28 +0200, Jackie<Jackie@an.on> wrote:
>
>> On 5/14/2010 18:10, Heywood Jablowme wrote:
>>
>>> Who the hell wants to run Windows applications in Ubuntu and who the
>>> hell would want to run them under WHINE? If you need Microsoft
>>> applications, and most people want MS apps, then use Windows. No need to
>>> use that INFERIOR Ubuntu that nobody wants.
>>>
>>> Ubuntu was written by geeks for geeks who can't get laid.
>>>
>>
>> Having *options* is a very good thing.
>>
>> It can be nice if you want to use Ubuntu and you actually have that
>> option to use them via an emulator (Wine, CXGames, Cedega).
>>
>> Having used Windows since Windows 95 up until present version and not
>> much Linux, I wouldn't exactly say that Ubuntu is bad. Overall, I
>> personally feel that Windows is more complete. But... Windows still
>> lacks essential features that Ubuntu has pre-installed. I, for one,
>> think that finding and installing applications and the best drivers
>> could (and should) be easier in Windows. There's a potential solution
>> for this if you could gather developers and their products into one
>> place. There were no good solution in Windows as early as in (most?)
>> Linux distros (and still not now). I believe that is why applications
>> for Windows are so spread without a good, easy, built-in way to find,
>> browse and install them from one single place.
>
> I think that one of the reasons for the "Oh! Linux can do anything
> that Windows can" fiction is that most of the people using either
> system aren't using it professionally.
>
> One of the major reasons is that the vast majority of the business
> world uses Windows and the associated applications. If you do a job
> for most companies you will run head on into the fact that your Linux
> system doesn't match their Windows.
>
> Almost every project I have been on used Auto-Cad and during
> construction of a project there are innumerable changes in the
> drawings. The normal practice is to e-mail complete drawings back and
> forth between the Engineering Office and the Field. Up-dated drawing
> going out to the Field and marked up drawings showing the "As-builts"
> sent back.
>
> Frequently if one writes a report the company will request that both a
> printed report and a disk copy be furnished, particularly if any form
> of legal problems are anticipated. And, with extremely rare exceptions
> they want the disks in "Word format".
>
> It is all well and good to say "Well, Open Office can do the job", but
> if you deliver a Linux formatted disk with a OO document on it you
> will probably be told in no uncertain terms that it is not what you
> contracted to do.
>
> Of course Auto-Cad will run on Linux using Wine but how big a data
> file can it handle? Are you sure that it can edit the largest drawing
> that the Engineers want to send? If you are out in the middle of a 100
> Sq. Km. sugar cane plantation in the middle of Java building a gas
> plant for the National Oil Company it is not really a good time to
> discover that you can't do your job because Linux won't do it.
>
> No, as long as windows is the dominant computer operating system Linux
> is never going to be a wholly acceptable system..
>
> John B. Slocomb
> (johnbslocombatgmaildotcom)
You're right. Some things can only be done with Windows, at least for
now. My point is that most HOME USERS can do everything they do with
Windows but more securely if they use Ubuntu or another Linux distro.
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1:14 -0700, Frank wrote: