[BadVista Advocate] Microsoft Says "Vista has less bugs than XP"

[Jacob Maynard]

This is the kind of thing I am talking about. Editing xorg.conf alone will
turn away a lot of people. We need to find something where no editing is
required, it is just set up right. And remember that not everyone is
interested it making their own software to fix different things. It needs
to be all-inclusive. When someone wants to start programming their own
software, then they should know that they have the choice.

Remember that we are dealing with people who have dealt with Windows for
the last 20 years. In Windows, you didn't edit some file to make your
video card work to its fullest. We can't expect the people we are trying
to sway to be okay with that option.

That being said, I'm going to throw this one out there and wait to get
yelled at by you all. I have run Fedora 5 and 6, and I think they are very
user-friendly, though you can't edit your Apache conf file with the visual
editor that they have. Otherwise, it has everything you need as a basic
desktop. So, that's my thought.

Oh, and we can't expect users to know about the most current version of
KDE, either. These updates have to be able to be applied with only a click
or two of the user.

Jacob

> I don't think it can be called as a bug (editing xorg.conf manually) it's
> the users choice. But this is a use full feature coz then I can make some
> software's to detect my VGA card as another one :P
>
> and makesure that you use the stable version of kde because there are lots
> of testing and unstable versions, as a testing kde user i didn't had many
> crashes up to this date. bugs are things that the developers don't know a
> reason why this is happening
>
> If I'm wrong correct me
>
> cheers
>
> On 4/29/07, Morten Juhl Johansen <mjj at syntaktisk.dk> wrote:
>>
>> Yasith Lahiru Vidanaarachchi wrote:
>> > It's mainly not about bugs in windows software, it's about
>> restrictions
>> > to the users, DRM, trusted computing etc. windows software has always
>> > been buggy right ?
>>
>> Buggy is not exactly a subjective parameter, either. I used KDE earlier
>> on, and it crashed frequently. Also, the fact that as an Ubuntu user
>> (which is hardly an example of freedom, so let us say gNewSense user)
>> you have to edit xorg.conf manually, if you need a previously
>> unconfigured resolution. The fact that a lot of resolutions are
>> available but not through the graphical interface can be perceived as a
>> bug.
>>
>> Yours,
>> mjjohansen
>>
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