On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 10:17 -0400, Robert Myers wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 11:47 PM, Joel Rees <joel.rees@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> What bias. I hate Windows. If you want to see how the web looks to----
> someone other than a geek, you have to use Windows.
I don't understand this - I use both Windows and Linux and I don't see
any real differences.
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Messenger clients don't have the same functionality on Linux. Interactive media display differently or not at all, in some cases on anything but Internet Explorer in Windows. Ordinary web pages don't enlarge in a friendly way, and sometimes I have to experiment with browsers just so I can find one that will allow me to read a web page without a magnifying glass or with something or other obscured.
Even for software development, Linux can be constraining (Do you have *the* exact kernel with which Intel has tested its compiler? How many more times will you struggle with "compatibility libraries" before regretting that you are too old to sign up for real combat?)
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> We had agreed to that this is not the place to discuss Firefox. What----
> you regard as "reasonably well" and what I would regard as reasonably
> well almost certainly aren't the same. Firefox has had its ups and
> downs.
Firefox is OK - Life is so much better disabling the Adobe Reader plugin
which forces PDF's to load into Adobe Reader itself and not in Firefox
memory space.
It depends on how you use a browser. Last time I checked, Firefox would not spread the workload over multiple processors. I keep lots of tabs open. I'm not interested in being a part of Google's half-baked experiments with Linux.
For anything but truly open source software, Linux will always be the step-child. For some things, that doesn't matter, but for some things it does. As you implied with your comment about Flash, nothing can be all things to all people.
Robert.
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