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TAMAL SAHA <saha_tamal2002@...> wrote:

Hi,
Thanks for the article. But I think most of us know these things.
On a few points I have to say a few things:

1. I am not a big fan of Linux. I do agree that Linux is more
stable than Windows. I have to reinstall Windows every 2/3 months, as
it gets 'slow' with time. But still I prefer Windows. Why? As a
student of BUET, I had to use Linux for my OS course. I used Fedora
Core 6. Everybody was saying Linux is an OS for programmers(!). But
my understanding is that an OS should be for users. In Fedora Core 6,
I could not access the NTFS drives. I had to install special drivers.
Fed_6 did not have any working multimedia software to play
songs/videos. All of them needed codecs. Open Office was there. But it
looked slow. And its LooknFeel was not as impressive as MS Office.
And installing all those extra softwares were not easy. Anybody who
has done that will agree with me. Those open source projects think
that they have shown the poor people enough mercy by letting them use
free software. Those open source projects normally have so much
confusing download pages that u can do a PhD on 'How to download a
open source software and install that on Linux'. If u do not believe
me then try installing a Eclipse IDE with Visual Editor. I have
stopped trying any more after trying for 3 days.

2. Moreover, Gnome is the default Desktop on Linux. Every time u
double click on a icon a new window opens. I tried to stop that. I
knew there must be an option for that. But it was very difficult to
find that. And u know this kind of things are hard to find by
googling. And honestly speaking, I do not understand why those people
reinvent the wheel(KDE, GNome, X-windows).

So, my point is that if Linux has to really make an impact in OS
market, they have to stop saying that they are a programmers OS and
they have to be more user friendly. And they have to make simple
things easy. I have a feeling that, the open source business model is
the obstacle here. It feels that they intentionally make these things
difficult. Recently I went to MySQL site. Now, they are also selling a
enterprise version and slowed down the bug fixing of the community
edition. They have to decide what they mean by 'proving service'.

AND

Those advocates of Linux in Bangladesh who pretend to be very much
fond of Linux need to be clean to their mind. How many of them really
use Linux for their personal use? I doubt that it wont be even 10% of
them. And they should choose the right version of Linux. Why the
'worst' version of Linux: Red Hat distribution. which is not 'Free'.
Why not tell people to use SUSE/Dbian/Ubuntu/Kubuntu(Ubuntu with KDE).
Why not show them a version that can play music by default? Why not
show them a version of Linux that can access NTFS drives
automatically. Why tell a 'lie' of free software when the general
users have to com to service centers to have their Linux software
installed? Is Red Hat doing a very good marketing ? We also missed the
cheap AMD processors because all we knew that Intel was the best.
Intel was best because they told us that They are the best. BUt being
an AMD user for last 3 years, I know that that is a damn lie. In fact
AMD performs better than Intel. I can say that from my personal
experience.

SO

We do not want to be called the 4th notorious software pirates
because in England 27% softwares are pirated. Those wealthy people
should stop piracy first to stop piracy here.

Thanks the author for his article. This was my personal view.

Best Regards,
Tamal Saha.


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