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  I've learned to like Linux (but not to love it)
Time: 00:00 EST/05:00 GMT | News Source: ZDNet | Posted By: Todd Richardson

COMMENTARY--Hello from Linux! Today's column, a follow-up to my first "Life with Linux" story, is being prepared using the KWord word processor that's included with the KDE desktop I installed atop Red Hat Linux 7.3 Personal Edition. So far, so good. At the end of the last column, I was struggling with how to change the screen resolution on my monitor. Turns out this is managed by a piece of middleware called X Windows, familiar to all in the Linux/Unix community. Alas, the only way to change the screen from low-resolution 640x480 to a more useful 1024x768 was to run a program called Xconfigurer from the command prompt. Or I could simply reinstall the OS, which seemed like the easier way out.

I used the opportunity to change machines, too. Moving from a 166MHz Pentium with something like 10MB RAM to a 500MHz AMD K6 with 256MB RAM had, as expected, a dramatic effect on system performance. So far, Linux has run just fine, hasn't crashed, and seems to offer tremendous flexibility, but this comes at the price of complexity. Up to a point, Linux is as easy to use as any other mainstream operating system. But after that point is passed, the water gets very deep, very quickly--as my monitor resolution issue serves to illustrate. Windows also suffers from this "easy up to a point" issue, but the point is a good bit farther down the road than it is in Linux.

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#1 By 6859 (204.71.100.215) at 6/19/2002 9:05:40 AM
I've played around with lots of Linux distros (but not Red Hat, strangely, as it was never recommended) and I always found reasoning that made Linux not as good as Windows. Linux has a very long way to come. But when it does it will be a viable alternative.

Notice in the article how he got a better PC? The requirements for the newer versions of Linux' kernel require some beefiness under the hood. THe days that Linux would run on a 486 are over. If you don't have at least a PII 333 and 64MB of RAM you're S.O.L. But that's the nature of the beast. Even recompiling the kernel doesn't really help much on older computers.

As for him liking virtual desktops: Win XP does that if you have the Power Toys.... if that's all he was looking for he needs to "come home."

#2 By 2960 (156.80.64.164) at 6/19/2002 11:17:08 AM
#4,

Not since MacOS X shipped :)

TL

#3 By 20 (24.243.51.87) at 6/19/2002 12:16:43 PM
ROFL... I love it. Reinstalling the OS to change the screen religion.

At least more people are being made aware of the blight on humanity that XWindows is. In 20 years from now, we'll look back and see that XWindows was to computing as bloodletting was to modern medicine -- a dark age!

#4 By 6859 (204.71.100.215) at 6/19/2002 3:38:14 PM
#10, I agree. Unfortunately, many Linux zealots see standardization as a bad idea that would bring about the destruction of their beloved OS. Jon Lasser is one such moron.

#5 By 135 (209.180.28.6) at 6/19/2002 4:40:51 PM
It's a conflict...

Normal people tend to realize that standardization and lack of customization/options makes the computer easier for people to use. Now that depends, because customization like changing color schemes and such are good... but it's options that you have to sit down and think about and that most people just don't know what they're talking about that confuse general users.

However geeks like lot's of customization. They throw in every little thing you could possible think of, generally without much in the way of documentation.

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