Re: The “Windows Just Works” BIG fallacy

[kendell clark]

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hi
It does allow us to improve, but not when the community cannot decide
on a direction because one group wants the easiest solution, and the
other wants a foss solution. And just to add my two cents in, windows
has gotten better, yes. But it's still got cases where it cannot
detect drivers. Neither OS is perfect. Windows does some things better
than linux, and linux does some, I'm going to say a lot of, things
better than windows. It all mostly comes down to the user. If the user
is determined to like windows above anything else, than they can find
reasons, eitehr true or not, to discount or otherwise discredit linux.
The reverse is true. If a person is determined to use linux, windows
could be the most user friendly OS in the world and that wouldn't
dissuade them, so long as linux still remains competitive. And I'm not
trying to get into a windows vs linux debate. I'm trying, as much as I
can be, to be objective. I like linux, therefore I'm not much
interested in what windows can and cannot do. I'll focus on improving
linux for myself and the other disabled people.

Thanks
Kendell clark
Sent from Fedora GNU/Linux



drago01 wrote:
> On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 8:30 AM, Diogo Campos (gmail) 
> <diogocamposwd at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi. Yes, again. [....]
>> 
>> # Codecs = MP3, AAC, H.264, H.265, Vorbis, Opus, VP8, VP9.
>> 
>> 
>> Windows: Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes, No, No, No, No.
>> 
>> Fedora: No, No, No, No, Yes, Yes, Yes,Yes.
>> 
>> 
>> Conclusion: analyzing the 8 (4 audio, 4 video) current big codecs
>> on the market, we have a tie! Is also worth noting that
>> installing additional codecs on Windows is of a equivalent pain
>> that on Fedora.
> 
> Those codecs do not have an equal market share.
> 
>> # Office Stuff = xls(x), doc(x), ppt(x), ods, odt, odp.
>> 
>> 
>> Windows: No, No, No, No, No, No.
>> 
>> Fedora: Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes.
>> 
>> 
>> Conclusion: in (Microsoft) Windows, even to open files from
>> another Microsoft product (Office), you can't without additional
>> work from you (or someone else).
> 
> Well you can open doc/x files using Wordpad. But given that most
> OEMs ship some version of Office that's a moot point.
> 
>> 
>> # Miscellaneous = PDF, torrent, common archives.
>> 
>> 
>> Windows: No(!), No, No.
>> 
>> Fedora: Yes, Yes(?), Yes (except RAR, for no reason).
> 
> Where is the free RAR implementation? (That's probably the only
> reason)
> 
> And btw. I don't think installing a torrent client by default makes
> any sense.
> 
> As for PDF that's true but OEMs tend to include something.
> 
>> # Graphic Cards = Intel, AMD, Nvidia.
>> 
>> 
>> Windows: No, No, No.
> 
> -> Wrong; Wrong; Wrong
> 
>> Fedora: Yes, Yes, Yes.
>> 
>> 
>> Conclusion: Oh, boy! Windows without video drivers is pure
>> garbage! You have to, at minimum, select to install the driver on
>> Windows Update to have 2D (and 3D) acceleration! Sometimes even
>> to have the correct resolution! On other hand, Fedora comes with
>> all these preinstalled! Yay!
> 
> The days of Windows XP are over. This has been much better i.e
> "just works" since Vista.
> 
> So you might not like it but it "works better" out of the box for
> most people.
> 
> "Oh windows is bad" doesn't really help us  ... "Windows does X and
> Y better" OTOH does because it allows us to improve.
> 
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