On 14/06/2011 3:47 PM, Antonio Olivares wrote: > > There is a story at distrowatch comment # 66 about a person who used linux for a while and like it still does, but went back to windows because of several problems. Here's link: > > http://batsov.com/Linux/Windows/Rant/2011/06/11/linux-desktop-experience-killing-linux-on-the-desktop.html > > This is sad in some ways :(, the world is not perfect. While many users like and enjoy Fedora and other versions of Linux out there, not everything works as it could and in a place close to home several folks complain to me that * driver does not work that what a great system I use. I tell him that it might get there :( > > Regards, > > Antonio MANY of the comments in that article relate to driver support for various hardware--be it video or audio. The problem is that Linux is often at the mercy of the hardware manufacturers, who prioritize their development efforts on Windows, and usually add Linux as an afterthought. Some hardware vendors don't support Linux at all, and only release the bare-minimum of hardware documentation necessary to get *basic* functionality working. In an environment like that, it's hard for Linux to "compete" on things like hardware compatibility. The decks are cleared stacked against Linux desktop in that case. Which is a shame, but it's not like there's some kind of active "conspiracy of mediocrity" going on. The comments about "Linux GUIs suck" are, as far as I can tell, noise. See my comments of yesterday about how there's no such thing as a universally-wonderful UI. Sound is an ongoing problem--but again, it's very often the case that the problems exist either because the hardware vendors own offerings are rather lame, or they won't release sufficient information to allow proper (full-featured) drivers to be developed. On the USB front, there are also instances of devices claiming compliance with the standard protocols, but in fact, lying. Which means that the standard USB "UAC-1" and "UAC-2" class drivers in Linux are *doomed* to malfunction in certain ways, because they're being lied to by the hardware. On windows some proprietary driver gets loaded that "knows" where the incompatibilities are, and works around them. But a standards-compliant "audio class" driver in Linux doesn't have the necessary information, sometimes. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
