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   "Chris Game"  wrote in message    
   news:pan.2007.01.23.10.44.10.784516@example.net...   
   > Linux apologists will point out that there are many email programs that   
   > can be used instead. Unfortunately most are unfinished and of poor   
   > quality, not what you want from an important resource. The whole Linux   
   > project suffers from dissipation of effort into too many channels.   
      
   > If it were better focused Linux could have captured the desktop OS   
   > market by now.   
      
   Perhaps. But I'm beginning to think that Linux will get help from Vista.    
   Most new O/S releases add new features, capabilities, and value. But it    
   seems that all Vista does is put a new (but not needed) face on the desktop,    
   hogs system resources that may obsolete even new/recent computers, and    
   creates multimedia problems ... where's the upgrade/improvement/benefit?   
      
   Now, I'm not ready to switch to Linux. But I'm surely not jumping into the    
   Vista mess.   
      
   But in a few years when Microsoft drops XP support, I'll need to do    
   something about my existing boxes.   
      
   In years past, an old box was a clunker that you **WANTED** to replace,    
   because new capabilities (DVD and other multimedia, higher game CPU and    
   graphics demands, etc) required a better box. So you'd buy a new box, and    
   get the new O/S with it as an incidental part of the purchase.   
      
   But today, storage demands are manageable (I've not come even close to    
   filling up the 40GB + 250GB drives on my main box). CPU performance demands    
   aren't growing much (except when artificial demands of Vista DRM are    
   imposed). So the old box might still have years of life left in it. In a few    
   years, the other upgrades (like HD/Blu drive) will likely be cheap. So I    
   might want to keep the old boxes, with a few cheap upgrades.   
      
   But without XP support (when will that be?), the O/S becomes a problem.    
   Linux could be an attrative alternative.   
      
   What I don't like about Linux is that it behaves a bit differently. When you    
   become used to a GUI and its trappings (for 12 years now), the mind offloads    
   much of the work to the fingers. You do things fast, easy, without thinking,    
   because the tasks have been mastered by the fingers.   
      
   I'd like it if Linux GUI behaved **exactly** like XP (not on the inside ...    
   just on the outside). And if MS can offer both an "XP theme" and a "classic    
   theme", why can't Linux offer an "XP theme" (just for people like me) and a    
   "Linux theme" for the existing cadre of Linux users? How hard is that?   
      
   I'd also like it if my Windows applications ran on Linux (not **similar**    
   applications ... I mean the **same** applications). For years, Microsoft    
   supported Office on the Mac. Well, it's not likely they'd do so for Linux.    
   But I also rely on products from other vendors (Adobe is on my must-have    
   list). If Adobe and other vendors would release the **same** Windows apps on    
   the Linux platform, then ta-ta to Windows.   
      
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