Re: Dev-C++ compiling problem in Vista

Nick Keighley wrote:
> On 6 May, 09:50, santosh <santosh....@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Nick Keighley wrote:
>>> On 4 May, 12:38, santosh <santosh....@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>>>> Soon [Linux distributuions] will be everybit as user-friendly as
>>>> any Windows [...]
>>> <laughter>
>> Cheers. But frankly, I expected a more substantial response. Guess you
>> don't have one.
> 
> Ok maybe you can read the future better than me. But Linux
> is a very long way from the user friendlyness of Windows.
> And I set the bar high "could my mum use it?".
> 
> I use windows and Linux regularly. And I know all about
> the clean internals of Unix and the mess that is Win 32.
> But from the outside you have to sweat to make Linux
> usable by normal people. I may be wrong but I
> can't see that being fixed any time soon.
> 
> 
> --
> Nick Keighley
> 
> 

Obviously, making Unix user friendly is possible. Steve Jobs
proved it with the Next, then, the MacIntosh. You have all
the power of Unix and a GOOD GUI.

Instead of doing that, the linux people waste their time in
endless replication of each other's work. There are half a dozen
window managers (gnome, kde, but also a next step clone, fvwim,
and several others) and NONE is as tightly integrated and easy to use
as vista.

Why?

Because they do not cooperate, i.e. they are not integrated. The
clipboard will work with most of the applications but not
with all. Since linus decided that enforcing standards is bad,
there are no official standards and everybody has his/her own standard.

Result, applications cannot cooperate.

There are 3 different sound systems, and now Ubuntu decided to
develop a new one. This one will be a "standard", say the Ubuntu
people.

Result: You never know which one you have to use in your application.
And if you decide to use one, there will be always problems with some
other system where the sound system is not the one you decide to
sup****t.

And I could go on repeating myself. The basic fact is that linux
is financed by companies that need good servers for cheap: IBM/SUN.
They do not care about GUIs, user intrface whatever. And the linux
developers have no commercial model so the only solution is to
work for those companies that decide what will be developed.

There was, several months ago, a discussion of this when one of the top
kernel  developers wanted to introduce a patch that would have
been better for game developing under linux but possible a little
bit bad for servers. (a scheduler modification).

The developer was kicked out and that was it. Linus decided that,
since he is the only dictator there, and servers must pass, and
game developers can go to hell since they do not finance linux.

You get what you pay for.

-- 
jacob navia
jacob at jacob point remcomp point fr
logiciels/informatique
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~lcc-win32