Comments on: The state of Linux

By: Fedora 10 released

Fedora 10 released — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:47:47 +0000

[...] work, but that updates available for download afterward often break the system. I’ve been frustrated by that many times, especially with regard to the nVIDIA display drivers. If you are keen to play around, check it [...]

By: Mandriva Powerpack 2008 Spring - a question of price

Mandriva Powerpack 2008 Spring - a question of price — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:43:04 +0000

[...] the recent spate of upgrades and new releases of various Linux distributions. The main cause of my frustrations? The lack of integration and quality testing whenever new kernels are released with specific regard [...]

By: manfred

manfred — Wed, 28 May 2008 04:36:04 +0000

At least you’re not frustrated enough to move back to Windows It is a real shame that the overall quality of distributions seems to suffer. The technology is excellent, the hard work and dedication of all contributors incredible – all it might take is a better focus on the end user and consumer.

By: Koos Uys

Koos Uys — Tue, 27 May 2008 20:01:45 +0000

I fully agree with you. I am using Mandriva now for five years and yes, it makes me cry when the new version suddenly does not work with some things. I am not an IT geek. I am just a normal computer user who never Linux learned the command line like I used to know in DOS. Today I do everything in GUI and if I cannot, I leave it.

For example: Madriva 2005 LE worked great. Almost no bugs. All versions of 2006 was a mess. Mandriva 2007 was fairly OK. 2008.0 worked great and 2008.1 suddenly have some problems. Could not yet get a X64 version to work though.

Yes, I rather prefer a 100% working desktop – and Linux can do that very very well – rather than the newest version of software that does not work nice.

At the moment what I do, is use a version. If it works, I remember it. If the new version have problems, I simply go back to the old version. After all, it only takes me 25 minutes to have a running desktop from an install and another hour to have all the other things installed that I like. On a Windows system it takes much more time.

Even with all this nonsense, I am never going back to Windows.

By: manfred

manfred — Mon, 26 May 2008 19:07:05 +0000

Sony Vaio was probably a bad call – can’t even get Windows to run on that if you don’t have the official disks

I’d be keen to see how your project turns out. Let me know. And: you’ll probably use Linux for longer than 2.5 years. Even if it’s not all it’s meant to be right now, it has a very bright future!

By: Herman

Herman — Mon, 26 May 2008 17:36:30 +0000

I can’t agree with you more. You know about my battles with my Sony Vaio vs ubuntu. But when Hardy Haron came out… I installed it again. I thought. mybe it’ll work this time… nope… anyway….
Never try Ubuntu from a offline pc… (well you know it already)

I will however work on linux for the next 2.5 years. Starting my final year project in a month: Voice operated Mobile phone SARS travel logbook. Basicly you say the odometer display before and after your business trip. Then the file gets transfered to a server (or email client maybe) and voice recognition software puts all the data in a txt file. 3.5 months to achieve this. Wish me luck. I’ll need it.