I didn't call anyone fanboy because of "you stick to windows" but because "linux users are wisest" kind of smug posts.
Regarding me calling all linux users of this forum fanboys, I was speaking in hyperbole since most of the posts are simply like that lately. It could be a reaction to fanboyish posts of windows users or mac users which again might be reaction to fanboying posts of linux users. This vicious cycle has to end somewhere.
So, are you saying that if you jump into a nest full of snakes and try to step on it ruthlessly that it should not bite you back?? *gigasmilies.googlepages.com/21.gif
1. complicated graphics driver installation.
If you haven't done enough searching around, the please try this if you are looking for a one click install!!
*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=74845
Many hardware have features which can be accessed only on windows using windows drivers. I know this is due to windows monoppoly, but that does add to difficulty ex: APC UPS, many printers' special features, soundcards's control panel. Support for USB modems is less compared to windows. 1 year back, I couldn't expect onboard sound to work on linux but now that has atleast changed.
Are we talking about ease of use or whining about unavailability??
2. in windows, k-lite mega codec pack contains encoders and decoders of most popular formats+ less common but still required formats. But linux codec packs are only most popular formats. I have to individually hunt for each and every codec and compile install them. K-lite codec pack also provides GUI control panel for many codecs and ffdshow can be used to changed lots of settings.
I don't really understand why is it that people install the base version using a CD and expect everything working on it out of the box?? If you haven't tried the studio version, then it's high time, it's got pretty much all the codecs that I can think of.
Again, what is your argument here? Because you don't have additional features with codecs in Linux, it's harder to use??? Again, are we talking about ease of use or whining about unavailability??
3. WMP11 supports both video and audio and has very good media library and it works with k-lite mega codec pack. Linux doesn't have such software yet. Amarok 2 will be having those features and will be available on windows too. If you know any media player which has popular+ less common codecs+ media library for video and audio please mention. I was also surprised that even VLC player on linux wasn't playing many of my videos. I will post the codec list later.
Again, are we talking about ease of use or whining about unavailability??
4. Fonts are a problem for browsing. I tried copying all fonts from windows to ubuntu and changed settings of opera linux to match windows opera settings. Still "O" has very visible holes in it. I am still working on rectifying this problem.
I don't really understand what your problem is? If you want everything to look like windows, then stop using Linux, and for the love of god, please stop your hard efforts to make Linux look like windows.
As far as Windows fonts installation is concerned, even after installing so many systems, I guess you haven't realized that this is not windows and it wont' work if you just copy paste the fonts!
5. Office 2007>openoffice.org in ease of use.
Just because you are used to MS Office doesn't make openoffice harder!
6. utorrent and other good windows programs are easier to use in windows than in wine. Its better to use a native program. Such programs need to be ported to linux.
Again, you are whining about unavailability than ease of use! If you are talking about ease of use, for the love of god, please compare them with native programs!
7. Lack of custom install: This is ubuntu only issue. During GUI install I dont get option to choose what to install. I dont even get to chose GRUB's default os and timer. I haven't found in any GUI way to change grub settings in the OS. I have to manually uninstall unwanted stuff and change menu.lst.
It's quite hard to believe that you say you been searching so much and can't find things, maybe you need to stop searching for windows type applications and search a bit more with an open mind.
Here's your GUI based GRUB!!
*grubconf.sourceforge.net/
I have been using real linux install trying to find a way to make linux better than or equal to windows (in features and quality atlteast, I can tolerate commands to a good extent),
Like I told, save your effort of trying to make Lindows!!
The moral of the story is that you and many other are so used to windows that you want everything to look feel and work like Windows. This is why Winboys hate MAC soooo much because it's so different from windows. The funny thing about these guys trying to work on linux is that, they have a lot more degree of control and customisation unlike MAC, and what do they do with all that customization? They first make their desktop look like a windows desktop, then they start to modifiy everything else to work like Winows!
I'm sorry guys, if you are looking for an alternate to Windows, then stop expecting it to work like Windows! The problem is that so many of you are so used to native windows apps that it's so hard for you to unlearn that app and learn a new one. This is the reason that we see most of them complaining that Openoffice is sooo much harder than MSOffice.
For those of you who have been working with linux for quite sometime will find pretty much everything easy. I'm sure adthiya can now easily run pretty much any command in the terminal, that's because he's used to it now. Similarly, windows users find everything easy because they are used to it. Everything you do today is easy for you regardless of whether it's computers or anything else in your life. If you try to learn something new, it's always difficult in the beginning, how much pain did we all go through learning to ride a bicycle after several hard tries, faling over, hurting ourselves.. but today it comes naturally so easily for us because we're used to it.
When people using windows look at linux, it seems so hard and difficult for them, but for those who've taken the ride and learnt from it, I can rightfully say that they haven't looked back.
As the great Cyrus_the_Virus once said or is saying: "Easiness comes with use"
Plz tell the thread started this thing.
The reason the thread was started is not to prove that Linux is easy but to dispell the myth "Linux is hard and windows is easy!"