Comments on: The Linux Paradox http://blog.affien.com/archives/2005/04/15/the-linux-paradox/ A few thoughts Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:24:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Noud http://blog.affien.com/archives/2005/04/15/the-linux-paradox/comment-page-1/#comment-489 Noud Sun, 17 Apr 2005 17:46:40 +0000 http://blog.w-nz.com/archives/2005/04/15/the-linux-paradox/#comment-489 You're right, Linux is different form windows and requeres a lot form the user. Linux is not for everyone. When I first started on linux I was really confused about how it works. It's difficult to change form the windows click-some-where-and-you-will-get-some-where to a new demension in a bash console. I'm sure there many people who can't do that. But there are alturnitives. Just take a look at SuSE. I prefer SuSE above FC, RH and Mandrake if I'm talking about user friendly policy. You could compare SuSE with most of the good parts of windows, It's easy to use. Like RH and FC you have rpm's. And more things. SuSE comes with a lot of software (at least 4.7 GB packages and sourcefiles if you take the personal distro) and it supports almost every driver. The instalation is easy, everything is graphical and could be clicked by mouse. Actually, if you want to you will never be in a console in SuSE. But it is still build on the linux kernel so can do the same with is as every other distro. It really feld if I were running linux in a windows evironment, easy but advanced... if the world should use Linux, the most newbie ought to use SuSE. Only advantaged? Ooh, no! Friendly user policy make linux unstable and slow, perhaps slower than windows. You need at least a P3 600mhz with 128mb ram to run SuSE on KDE. By the way, I really hate KDE, but that's another story. But linux is linux because it's fast and stable. Mayby that's why linux is not a good distro for user friendly software. You’re right, Linux is different form windows and requeres a lot form the user. Linux is not for everyone. When I first started on linux I was really confused about how it works. It’s difficult to change form the windows click-some-where-and-you-will-get-some-where to a new demension in a bash console. I’m sure there many people who can’t do that. But there are alturnitives.

Just take a look at SuSE. I prefer SuSE above FC, RH and Mandrake if I’m talking about user friendly policy. You could compare SuSE with most of the good parts of windows, It’s easy to use. Like RH and FC you have rpm’s. And more things. SuSE comes with a lot of software (at least 4.7 GB packages and sourcefiles if you take the personal distro) and it supports almost every driver. The instalation is easy, everything is graphical and could be clicked by mouse. Actually, if you want to you will never be in a console in SuSE. But it is still build on the linux kernel so can do the same with is as every other distro. It really feld if I were running linux in a windows evironment, easy but advanced… if the world should use Linux, the most newbie ought to use SuSE.

Only advantaged? Ooh, no! Friendly user policy make linux unstable and slow, perhaps slower than windows. You need at least a P3 600mhz with 128mb ram to run SuSE on KDE. By the way, I really hate KDE, but that’s another story.

But linux is linux because it’s fast and stable. Mayby that’s why linux is not a good distro for user friendly software.

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