Re: {OT} Interesting view on Windows/Linux+Wine
Hi Al,
WINE isnt an emulator but more like a Win32 API clone for *nix. WINE does not
work correctly with many native Windows applications and is really a "twist your
fingers and hope it will work" event. WINE is getting better and better, but if
you want to reliably use Windows programs on Linux or BSD, I'd suggest buying a
virtual machine product. However VMs will greatly slow down system performance.
I recently started using Ubuntu (gonna use Kubuntu in 6.04). I tried PC-BSD and
it was great, but there weren't any stable 3D acceleration drivers for my ATI
Radeon 9600 on BSD yet.
Ubuntu is an excellent "middle road" distrobution with a huge helpful community,
fantasic documentation and online wiki, and the spirit of Debian and it's 18,000
packages; you can use RPM too. With Alien you can convert between numerious
package formats.
With that said, Linux isn't anything like Windows. Vista might be closer but
still very different. With Linux and BSD, you need to immediately learn some
terminal commands to do basic tasks (like changing file permissions, becoming
super user, downloading packages with apt-get and RPM, etc.)
I'm very much a *nix nOOb but learning quickly. I'd say if your willing to
invest the time needed to learn UNIX then come on over. Otherwise just stick with
Windows and get spyware remover software.
It'd be nice to have more open-minded people migrate to Linux than those who are
anti-Microsoft, anti-Windows, etc. I dislike the immature geeks who use Linux and
bash Microsoft and/or the commericial software movement in general.
Windows has improved greatly since 9x/ME and Vista will be even better. The
Linux users who say Windows is crap are wrong and completely bias.
BTW, I have a dual boot Windows XP SP2, Ubuntu Breezy v5.10 system using the
GRUB bootloader. It works great. 
Regards,
Vincent
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