Instead we've got people willing to pay for and "upgrade" so their computer can run correctly in the first place.
They are. Look at Red Hat's success - 40% growth quarter over quarter. A market cap of over $5Billion, and hugely profitable. Look at Lindows, who's "for pay" distro is gaining steam in the retail chain. Look at boxed versions of SuSE and Mandriva and Xandros and Mepis, which sell briskly (even though free versions are available). As for Windows - people are willing to pay for it because they are forced to. It's what comes with their PCs. Almost nobody buys the boxed versions of Windows. In fact, most non-technical users wouldn't know the first thing about installing an OS. Linux is a spectacular success, plain and simple. It's growing relatively slowly (as compared to it's growth on the server) on the desktop, due to market dominance of Windows, which has all the software and hardware markets targeting it. That's a very tough nut to crack. But LInux continues to grow there, mostly from word of mouth, and very satisfied users.
lindows!? i second what this guy says. http://www.newsforge.com/newsvac/02/08/20/185202.shtml go search "stupid linux fans" on Yahoo and see what comes up on top. bigsoccer hates linux
what a joke. Mr Gates has helped and saved the U.S. government's ass many times already and now the government is trying to destroy the Gates empire because it's becoming too big for them to control... paying one's kindness and best effort with betrayal is the most unethical thing that a mankind would do in the first place. not only the u.s. but many other nations especially europe must pay for their stupidity of putting so much burden and disadvantage on innocent Microsoft employees. i just hope the day Mr. Gates claim indepenence of the U.S. will come soon.
Yes I have tried it, and I have tried the FireFox and Opera beta's as well and I prefer Firefox. I am also not the only one, or didn't you read the article?
What are you blathering on about now troll? Gates and his illegal monopoly are guilty of anti-trust violations. Something that he continues to illegally do.
WAHHH!! 100% of the world doesn't use Windows! WAHHH!! There's other browsers besides IE! WAHHH!! Microsoft has competition!
I tried out IE 7 and it still sucks. It still can't rended CSS properly and still has problems with other functions. Oooh, it's got tabs now. woopdie doo. For a PC the best browser is Firefox.
Can you run it on Linux, Mac, and Windows? Can you install functionality extensions - or even write your own? If there is a bug, can you fix it yourself? Can you set it up to share your bookmarks between different computers? Can it remember what windows and tabs you had open last time, and automatically restore all those windows and tabs? Can you run it off of a thumb drive - thus ensureing that you have *your* personalized set up available on any computer that has a USB port? Until IE addresses those concerns, I'll stick with Firefox. It's just a better product, hands down. Thanks, tho.
Flock is a beta, Firefox was beta for the longest time and there are lots of other browsers that were in beta and they worked TONS better than IE. Any version of IE. You'd think with all the time they've had they at least want to release a browser that could render css properly. It's not like it's something new and nobody uses.
Ooooh Ooooh, me me. Well, sort of. Y'know, I've been an Opera user since 6.01 and I've watched Firefox catch up to it feature-wise while IE 6 just stagnates. I haven't looked at IE7 yet but unless I have to support another potential rendering model (nightmare) I simply have no reason to. Opera is free. Firefox is free. I can do everything I want to do in Opera. IE has created so many little, frustrating problems over it's existence Microsoft should have to pay some sort of penance for at least one version before I'll accept it. (btw, my favorite was when a client applied a patch to ie and the patch contained a .dll that caused half the machines to render custom programming forms incorrectly).
You haven't lived until you've got a setup where your work PC, home PC, laptop, and thumbdrive all have the same bookmarks... automatically. Bookmark something at work, and it's there when you fire up Firefox at home, no fuss, no "social bookmarking" website - it's just right there in "Bookmarks". That, my friends, is living large.
In IE 7, even when you're viewing one screen with no tabs, you still see the tab for the one screen. In other words, no way to get rid of the tab bar. It has tabs, but they're very basic. Bill Gates f'ed up by not having tabs in 6.0.
Me. What if there's a power outage and you've got 10 tabs open? Extensions rock something fierce (can IE block advertisements?) And the ability to put it on a thumb drive sounds pretty nice.
It's the little things that make life worth living. I have to admit, when I created the Linux RAID partitions on the two RAID5 arrays and they showed only 750GB, I had a "I built this too small" moment.
Which is the best linux to mess around with on a clean install computer? I just want to mess around with it and see how it works on my parents' old computer, which version (free obviously) would be the easiest/best? thanks
Check this thread: https://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=456312 Lots of good discussion and ideas. .