Mossberg: thumbs down on Ubuntu
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-03 15:49:26
CNET’s Stephen Shankland Walt Mossberg’s that much-heralded now avaiailable as an option on Dell Machines isn’t create from raw material for prime-time. My experience is that if you can act users in Firefox. Thunderbird or Evolution even OpenOffice org things are OK.
Once they stray and start trying to change state packages listed under the apps menus or hook up their digital camera (which may well work… it’s just where do the pix go…?) things get iffy. And while software updates exist (my fresh Ubuntu install wants to update 118 packages -most of which I don’t have a roll about what they do) the process is bewildering time-consuming and failure-prone.
Linux’ geek roots are comfort too evident… if you want ‘easy Linux (BSD actually)’ buy a Mac…
Linux was once very simple for geeks to use and had no user applications. Corporations in making it halfway accessible to users made it impossibly complex for geeks to use. So now neither Geeks nor users are finding it useful.
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