XPost: comp.sys.mac.advocacy, alt.os.linux.mandrake, comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   XPost: alt.os.linux.redhat   
   From: wbarwell@mylinuxisp.com   
      
   imouttahere@mac.com wrote:   
      
   >>GNOME is so simple to use anyone could use it.   
   >   
   > That's not quite under dispute. MacOS 6.0 was also simple to use, 15   
   > years ago. The issue is one of modern functionality. How well does the   
   > system sleep and wake up? How easy is it to use 802.11, share stuff   
   > over the network. How well does the OS manage power for portables?   
   >   
   > Macs have the great advantage of having both the OS and hardware   
   > designed for each other.   
   > Windows has this to some extent, though of course Microsoft has a hard   
   > time keeping OEMs in line.   
   >   
   > Linux IMV is perpetually wrong-footed in this area, chasing the   
   > hardware but never quite managing it.   
      
   Linux is moving to the UDEV system that is supposed   
   to help a lot in the future here. Part of the problem   
   is manufactorers who don't bother with Linux drivers.   
   Or do them poorly.   
      
   > It's be great to have dedicated Linux hardware but this seems counter   
   > to Linux's least-common-denominator strategy of hardware support.   
   >   
   >>I don't get the Linux bashing by Mac people.   
   >   
   > Indeed. Apple owes a lot to the GNU/Linux community.   
   >   
   > However, we do get sensitive about people making claims that Linux is   
   > as good as OS X.   
   >   
   > For one thing, the linux environment lacks anything as clean as OS X's   
   > window server, its font rasterizer, multimonitor support, etc.   
      
   I have a Matrox G550 videoboard with multimonitor   
   capabilities right out of the Mandrake box.   
   A lot of multimonitor boards are so supportered.   
   How many monitors do you want?  Matrox has boards for   
   4 or 8.  And you can run more than one such board.   
      
   Font problems of the past have been a legal issue,   
   not many good free fonts and you couldn't include   
   MS fonts with a distro. Thanks to Bitstream and   
   contributions here, its a lot better.   
   I am using a Matrox G550 with a big Hitachii   
   21" monitor and aliasing is no problem in Mandrake   
   10.1.  The new X-org X server works quite well   
   incomparison to xfree86 of a few years ago.   
      
      
   > The Linux community tends to punt the hard problems and then ignore   
   > them, or, worse, look to what Microsoft has done and slavishly copy   
   > them.   
      
   Such as?   
      
   >   
   > Apple pays a lot of people a lot of money to tackle these issues and   
   > solve them.   
   >   
   >> You should be bashing Windows.   
   >   
   > We do that too :)   
      
   Linux has problems, all OS's do.  You just pick   
   which set of problems you have to handle.   
      
   The big problem with Linux is lack of   
   software in many cases that have quite   
   the usability of some MS or Mac SW.   
      
      
      
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   Cheerful Charlie   
      
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