[SATLUG] Linux Not Ready for the Desktop

[Hector Bojorquez]

well..
as an OS.. Linux has been ready for the desktop for years... the usability
is there.. The UI has gotten insanely good..
There are good apps for many things...
but..
Open Source office apps... lag behind... Open Office is just too
sluggish....even on fast machines, it pales in performance to MSOffice--
which is a far far superior product on many fronts...
BUT....
All of this may come to naught with the advent of Google Office....It's not
a bad for what it is....and it's just nifty.
Hell there will be a slew of  these online office apps soon.

I think we've spent too much time propping up Open Office (almost ten
years...StarOffice anyone? )  as something viable when it's just not  all
that great...
Maybe it's time for something else..




On 10/25/07, Walt DuBose <dubose at texas.net> wrote:
>
> Brad Knowles wrote:
> > On 10/24/07, Vern Davis wrote:
> >
> >>  Posting, On a LINUX Users Group, that Linux is not ready for
> >>  prime-time is not nice. It pissed me off. It may piss some other
> >>  people off.
> >
> >
> > IMO, Linux is not ready for prime-time use, at least not as a desktop,
> > and not for most users.  Sure, there are some people who'd be fine with
> > it (like you and many other people on this list), but they do not
> > comprise the majority of users out there.
> >
>
> A number of public and private entities as well as local, state and some
> federal
> government agencies are using Linux on the desktop rather than a MS
> product.
>
> As far as I have been able to tell from the reports in various industry IT
> publications, the "re-training" time is no more than what is spent when
> holding
> a computer familarization course for a new employee as is done in most
> companies
> and government entities...usually 4 hours.
>
> I Linux User Groups offered a similar course and advertised it properly,
> then I
> believe that you would have a number of individuals getting onboard.
>
> Microsoft did not take its place as leader all at one bang.  It took 5
> years for
> Windows for Work Groups to be accepted which was soon followed by Windows
> 95.
> And even then many were still using IBM DOS or other DOS, Word Perfert,
> Word
> Star, DBase, Harvard Graphics and the like.
>
> I believe that we Linux users have just sat quitely by and let Microsoft
> have
> its day in the sun.
>
> Walt
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