albfneto
(usa openSUSE)
Enviado em 25/07/2011 - 23:11h
Um usuário Mexicano de Windows, criticando ao Linux, inclusive a instalação e a mudança contínua da aparência do ambiente gráfico (GNOME3 vs. GNOME2 etc...).
Fonte: Distrowatch, esta semana, comentário de usuário número 15:
http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20110725#upcoming
"Uma tela gráfica que faça sentido, e não um ambiente cuja aparecncia mude em poucos mêses, mudando botões de lugar e outras coisas assim..."
"O usuario precisa ter escolha, o Linuser argumenta que se pode trocar o ambiente gráfico depois, mas é muita tentativa e experimentação, e pode ser que funcione! pode ser que o usuário não queira isso, e ainda pode ser uma chance para que ele quebre seu sistema ao instalar"
" é facil instalar windows ou MacOS, não muitas tentativas e horas de experimentos, Linux é muita tentativa e experimentação. Quantos se interessarão por Linux, quando um sistema funcionante for a Regra e não a Exceção?"
TEXTO ORIGINAL:
15 • #13 Linux wiping out M$ (by imnotrich on 2011-07-25 16:16:41 GMT from Mexico)
I'm sad to admit but IMHO Linux will never overtake Microsoft or Apple for end users because:
1. Microsoft and Apple have better hardware support, and they don't abandon hardware just because it's two or three years old. Drivers are available for many years.
2. It's easy to install Windows or MAC OS, no hours or days or weeks of endless tinkering and googling to get everything working. Problematic installs are rare.
3. A gui that makes sense (vs guis that change every few months just to be different, move buttons around and such)
4. Microsoft Office vs. Open Office vs. Word Perfect vs. Libre Office file format pissing matches. "People, can't we all get along?" (Rodney King).
Linux developers do an incredible job with #1, but not all hardware manufacturers cooperate, then there are distros who insist on omitting proprietary code, either way I've never found a distro that consistently supports a wide variety of hardware across multiple machines. Worse yet because Linux wants to be bleeding edge, it's quick to drop support for common devices (such as video and wireless) simply because those devices are a few years old. Hint from the perspective of a user: Hardware support is not "bloat."
Re #2, Linux is all about tinkering and experimentation. Linux Developers would consider themselves failures if they produce a flawless, working distro that required no tweaking, and honestly...how many of us would lose interest in Linux if "just worked" was the rule, not the exception?
GUI's - users should be given choices during the initial install. People will argue that you can change your desktop environment later but...that goes back to #2. Mucho tinkering and experimentation and maybe it will work. Maybe it won't and there's a good chance you will bork your install.
Finally, office file formats. If you're going to have interoperability with the "other" OS's, there needs to be standards that all Office/Word processing suites support. As long as there is no 100% functional equivalent for Microsoft Office, company IT departments will be reluctant to switch to Linux for Open Office or other alternatives which may be 75% or 80% equivalent...not good enough. Expect Microsoft will not cooperate, and plan accordingly.
Linux market share will grow in future years, and I expect web servers and corporate servers will migrate to Linux in greater numbers but for end users.. Linux has to be more like Windows in order to be Windows (the thought of which is enough to make most Linux developers puke I am sure).