Re: Working with standards (was Re: Oops, forgot...)
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 02:14:45AM -0700, Shriram Shrikumar wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> firstly, these are just my opinions so lets not start a war.
>
> I think most of us would agree that linux is not the easiest to use
> and in X, it is not the fastest and still not near the ease of use of
> windows - Mozilla takes a good few seconds to load up on at least the
> lower spec machines and what about nautilus which seems to take
> forever.
>
> Don't get me wrong. I love linux and dislike microsoft and their
> products, However, IMHO, linux applications have some way to come
> before they can fully compete with Windows applications. I use linux
> over ms every opportunity I get and am willing to wait a few seconds
> mozilla loading up or figuring out why some application isn't entirely
> working but how many others who needs "work done" would be willing to
> do that ?
I think it's fairly clear that there's still lots of work to do. The
best way to help is to file good bugs, produce patches for whatever you
can, and generally make life easier for the developers who are trying to
improve this stuff. Even helping with simple things means that somebody
will have more time to work on something more complex.
> Being in this position, shouldn't we be investing our time and effort
> in improving the ease of use of linux rather than blaming ms for their
> faults which they are investing a lot of money trying to fix.
Absolutely. That's what I was trying to get across by quoting the
Advocacy mini-HOWTO.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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