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Originally Posted by timewarrior2001
Unix is glorified DOS and much harder to use.
Unix engineers think thye are gods when in reality they are cardiganised sandal wearing beard toting folkies........usually 
You'll find many of them supporting the campaign for real ale and buying Vin Garbutt CD's.
Well thats how it is where I work anyway. |
I am a Unix Engineer, and I can assure you that I am clean chaven, and cardigan free..
I only wear sandals when I am on the beach......
However I do agree that Unix is less easy to use as an end user, and although Linux has come a long way, it is still not as user friendly , nor does it support as many devices or applications as windows.
Personally, I use Linux or Solaris (Unix) on my laptop, and have a windows PC at home that I use exclusively for gaming... I will be putting linux on the second hard drive of tht PC, but as my wife is not a techie, (and CS:Source is not yet available for linux), I will be leaving the primary drive as Windows with Linux as the secondary boot option.
pretty much all of my posting is done on my laptop running Linux, with Firefox, over a wireless link - so for surfing and business use it is fine (although StarOffice apparantly takes a little getting used to if you are an MS Office user - I have been on openoffice/staroffice for years and rarely use/used MS Office)
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Originally Posted by Gareth
Heh, I think that people who complain that Linux is too user-unfriendly for them will have an even tougher time with BSD
I think that Sun's decision to open source Solaris was an extremely brave one to take, and also a highly commendable one. I really hope it pays off for them having taken such a risk. Although I've yet to use Solaris on an x86 box, I've only used it on SPARC machines. Anyone here tried it on an Intel box? |
I hope so too - I work for SUN
Solaris 10 on my Tosh laptop is pretty quick - and with the decision to opensource it, I expect it to get better as more drivers are written by the Open Source community.
I used to be a Solaris X86 Support engineer, and was gutted when they axed it - Hindsight is 20/20, but I believe it cost us a lot of goodwill and time in the now expanding X86 market.