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Current Newswire: Can't Print in Evince, GEdit, Claws-Mail Kubuntu Moves Forward: You Can't Please Everyone, All the Time Editor's Note: Linux Should Copy Amiga PC Magazine, a Flagship for Ziff Davis, Will Cease Printing a Paper Version The Sound of Empire Falling IE8 Coming in 2009, But Will it be Late to the Firefox Party? Complete Backup and Restore Using "tar" Command Red Hat Fedora Linux: 9.5 Million Users and Growing GCC Hacks in the Linux Kernel: Discover GCC Extensions for the C Language 'Dark Knight' on its Way to Becoming 2008's Most Pirated Movie IT Engineer/Operations - multiple openings Becton Dickinson US-NJ-Franklin Lakes Post A Job | Post A Resume LinuxWorld: Viewpoint: The State of Laptop Linux--2005 Apr 12, 2005, 01 :00 UTC (13 Talkback[s]) (7813 reads) (Other stories by James Turner) "Last year I made some waves here on LinuxWorld.com when I published an article recounting my efforts to find a Linux distribution that would work 'out-of-the-box' with my Toshiba laptop. To say that I was profoundly disappointed doesn't begin to describe how I felt when a vocal minority of readers basically accused me of treason. 'How dare I hold Linux to the same standards as Windows! Windows comes installed; Microsoft has it easier! Etc. Etc.' "I still stand by the validity of my initial test. Until Linux is a simple grandmother-friendly install, desktop Linux is going to stay in the ghetto, restricted to people who don't panic at the words 'patch and recompile the kernel...'" Complete Story Related Stories: LinuxWorld.com: What's Wrong with the Open Source Community?(Dec 02, 2003) LinuxWorld: Is Linux Desktop-Ready Yet... Or Not?(Nov 27, 2003) Index Mode   |   Flat Mode   |   Thread Mode   |   Thread Flat     Talkback(s) Name  and Date   Completely wrong underlying premise    Kevin Apr 12, 2005, 02:51:28     SuSE and Tadpole    Eric Brown Apr 12, 2005, 03:07:15     Challenge....    Nicholas Donovan Apr 12, 2005, 03:19:56     Idiot Talk    pwzhangz Apr 12, 2005, 05:05:35     analogy    Xunil Ung Apr 12, 2005, 05:21:33     Not even close..    Mike R. Apr 12, 2005, 09:32:37     up to a point    denis Apr 12, 2005, 10:00:09     My Take    Clay Berlo Apr 12, 2005, 10:22:55     While I will agree...    Howard Pepper Apr 12, 2005, 12:42:30     second article..    Pete Apr 12, 2005, 12:49:57     Windows is Harder to Install than Linux    bincbom Apr 12, 2005, 15:23:28     Another foolish article...    Felonious Apr 12, 2005, 15:36:22     Nonsense Then, Nonsense Now    C. Whitman Apr 12, 2005, 15:46:08     Home | Search Talkbacks | Customize View    Top of Page   Enter your comments below: * Your Name: * Your Email Address: * Subject: CC: [will also send this talkback to an E-Mail address] * Comments: Tags allowed:<I>,<B> and <U>. See our talkback-policy for more about talkback content. Fields marked with * are required!

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