Re: Coding

Personally, I think you are being a bit stuffy! I thought we were putting an
end to this?? I just left an email group where all they wanted to do was
grip about who was better, and who had more, ! Don;t we have other things we
c an discuss??
----- Original Message -----
From: "KathyW" <kathyw(at)home.albury.net.au>
To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 2:54 PM
Subject: Re: Coding


| ** Reply to message from SGT Thomas Fisher <raidermp(at)CLDS.NET> on Thu, 02
Nov
| 2000 09:07:01 -0500
|
|
| > But why count out and try to avoid MS?
|
| I have used Linux or Unix almost exclusively for web development work
(with a
| little help from macs for multimedia) for over 3 years now. But I don't
avoid
| M$ entirely ... I have a multi-boot test box affectionatley called
"Schitzo"
| (95/98OEM/98SE/2000) that I test pages with. Fortunatley as I don't use
| "Schitzo" for any *real* work, and don't need to install anything on it
but
| browsers, I don't have to reconfigure it or reformat partitions very often
and
| it doesn't often crash. Hate to rely on it for anything critical though.
|
| > Do you really think that the software companies out there are making all
| > their programs to run on Linux?
|
| Crikey! I have anough trouble picking out what free software I want to use
from
| all the options! And that's before I start looking at some of the big
| commercial apps being ported. I don't need *all* the crap written for
windows
| ported to Linux - there's very little worth having (and what is might well
run
| under Wine emulation anyway ...).
|
| > Why limit it only to people using MS products?  Does that mean that
people
| > using Linux couldn't try to take the easy way out and say, use a WYSIWYG
| > editor without learning how to code first?
|
| Well, no. There isn't a WYSIWYTYG editor for Linux worth having ... but
then I
| haven't seen a WYSIWYTYG editor for any platform worth having. Maybe I'm
too
| fussy ...
|
| There used to be a few apps I would have liked to see ported from windies,
but
| I've since found alternatives or different ways of achieving the same
result.
| There's not much left that windies can do that I can't do with my Linux
box
| now.
|
| But Linux is not an OS for the masses yet. Not because of lack of apps, or
| difficulty of setting it up (the current distros are getting VERY easy to
| install and set up) but from lack of technical support and help from
| manufacturers and retailers. The Linux system of peer support on the web
is
| excellent ... but you already have to be computer literate to know that
you a)
| can look for it and b) be able to find it. The "masses" need hand-holding
from
| the corner-computer-store-guy ... and he/she is usually too entrenched
keeping
| up with windies to learn anything else. The Linux (technical) learning
curve,
| especially for someone indoctrinated into the windies way, is pretty steep
| (format c: is NOT the way to solve a Linux kernal or driver problem ;-).
|
| Cheers,
| KathyW.
|
| SuSE Linux 7.0 / IBM JRE1.1.8 / PolarBar Java Mailer 1.19RC11
|

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