Text 59711, 40 rader
Skriven 2010-01-27 15:28:48 av Alan Zisman (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 59699 av TOM WALKER (1:123/140)
Ärende: TOM's Annual Linux Testin
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On 27-01-10 2:53 AM, TOM WALKER -> AUGUST ABOLINS wrote:
 TW>>> ...for the last couple of years I have limited my
 TW>>> Testing Linux to the Ubuntu distribution in my Annualk Testing
 TW>>> to see if it is really ready for the Typical Computer User. So
 TW>>> far the answer has ben a resounding NO. But I keep hoping that
 TW>>> SOME day Microsoft will have soem REAL competition.

 AA>> With every newer release of Ubuntu you can be certain that fewer and
 TW> fewer
 AA>> older (meaning, underpowered, and equipped with obsolete parts) pcs
 TW> will be
 AA>> supported. My understanding is that you are still using older computers?
 AA>> so, your annual exercise can render unfair conclusions about Ubuntu.

 TW> That jsut proves my Point agian. They are NOT ready IF one needs to buy
 TW> a New computer of Criticaly pick the Hardware to be compatable.
 TW> Teh Real Marked has a WIDE variety of Hardware. Either Suport it or
 TW> remain only a small Nitch Market.

Not necessarily the case... when I moved from WIn98 to Win2000, my UMax SCSI
scanner no longer worked. People here have posted driver issues with every new
Windows version.

No computer OS - Windows, Mac, Linux, what-have-you - supports 100% of the huge
variety of hardware around. Windows 98 probably supported the widest range of
hardware, at least for hardware released up until, say, 2002 or so... more
recently, WinXP probably supports the widest range of more recently-released
hardware, but at my computer lab, I had to drop a large number of games and
educational programs that we were using when we moved from W98 to 2000/XP. Even
now, moving from an older XP set up to a newer installation (on both newer and
the older systems), I had a few applications that no longer were usable - even
with the same OS!

So if 100% compatibility is the only criteria for success, you're never going
to get there.... it's always a question of whether the change-over is worth the
hassle of needing to make other changes - in software, peripherals, ways of
working, etc.

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