[BadVista Advocate] My blog

[Nuno J. Silva]

On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 18:17:39 +0530
"Yasith Lahiru Vidanaarachchi" <yasith.vidanaarachchi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> It would be good if the bad vista site displays the bad things about
> vista in an 'eye catching way' in it's homepage. And to remove the
> geeky image out of linux for the use of beginners, maybe an
> introduction to non-geeky distro's would be good (SuSE, Mandriva,
> Ubuntu, Kubuntu).

That'd be good, but we should drop SUSE from the list, as Novell is now
linked to Microsoft.

> 
> As for interactive things i think java applets will be the answer.
> And if we can make the bad vista site look cool, I mean adding some
> stylish images. And the best thing to do will be to point out the BAD
> things about DRM in a horrible way ;)

If java is going to be used, please create also alternative HTML
pages for the applets.

> 
> And when i read anonymouseh!'s comments i think that there is a great
> issue with the myth about device drivers ( I say this is a myth
> because he seems to be thinking that all the drivers for all the
> devices hould be configured). Actually the only problems are with
> wireless network cards, fingerprint devices and stuff like that.

I think that there are more hardware issues with windows than with
GNU/Linux: the drivers which are already in the kernel are prepared to
meet a quality level which is much more stable than the windows
drivers, because the windows ones are not bundled with the OS
kernel, and as the opposite happens with Linux, that results in better,
safer and more stable drivers.

And with open drivers, GNU/linux developers may develop frontends which
are able to deal with several hardware pieces with simillar or equal
features. In windows we can see this in TWAIN, but it still needs a
software layer which depends on the manufacturer (in linux SANE
provides backends and the frontend is the same).

So my point of view is that after all, who wins in the drivers issues
is GNU/Linux. Just look for hardware with *open* linux drivers and
you'll have something which works better in GNU/Linux than in windows.

> 
> And another point is that the console, windows users (after using
> their childish command prompt) seems to be thinking of the console as
> an advanced, geeky thing (Now i can't live without the command line)
> so we must point out things like these and linux will conquer for
> sure.

That thing which had no tab-completion until windows 5.0? :-)

A comparation between that toy and *n?x shells is a must-have.


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Nuno J. Silva
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