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Originally Posted by Gavin
The point is the user shouldn't have to 'make it'. That's the job of the developer.
Anyway, in the space of a few days, it needed google-copy-paste fixes for..
1. Installing graphics drivers
2. Installing XGL
3. Installing Beryl
4. Retrieving the shutdown button that Beryl removed it.
And it wasn't just one lot of pasting, some steps in there it required any lots of pasting. Like this. |
I didn't think that XGL or Beryl were standard in any distros yet though? From what I remember they're included in the various repositories of stuff but not fully supported as standard.
I'm not sure that Linux is yet ready for every desktop, but it is much more useable than it used to be. I'm currently running MythTV on Ubuntu and am happy in the knowledge it works reliably, seems to be much more efficient on the CPU than Windows ever was using the same applications. The system is dual boot, but Windows gets booted so in-frequently that it spends more Windows time downloading and applying patches than it actually does doing anything useful.
Personally I think that while Linux has come a long way you still need to be prepared to do some research yourself. Particularly with hardware and drivers. However it's a very good alternative for those of us that don't fancy giving MS more money and don't want to upgrade a perfectly good PC just to run Vista.