It is but so is Linux as a desktop OS because every single thing you want to try and run ends up being huge effort.
I spent nearly 6 years as a Linux sysadmin at what was at the time the country’s largest ISP as part of a team that ran several hundred Linux servers and yet I still wouldn’t consider anything other than Windows on the desktop.
It is but so is Linux as a desktop OS because every single thing you want to try and run ends up being huge effort.
I spent nearly 6 years as a Linux sysadmin at what was at the time the country’s largest ISP as part of a team that ran several hundred Linux servers and yet I still wouldn’t consider anything other than Windows on the desktop.
Paul
The view expressed about the standard of Windows as an OS is one of the key reasons for wanting to bin Windows and go to Linux. Equally the appeal of Linux is that it is free and works “straight out of the box” in my experience very little aggro in comparison with Windows. A key requirement is to be able to view / analyse digital tacho data under Linux. If this is not possible this would be a ‘show stopper’.
I am interested to know further info about why Paul “wouldn’t consider anything other than Windows on the desktop”?
JWHULCOOP:
I am interested to know further info about why Paul “wouldn’t consider anything other than Windows on the desktop”?
Because when I used to run a Linux desktop (which is admittedly a few years back now) I got sick of spending more time trying to get things to work than I actually spent using them. Every time someone sent me a Word document or something created in a Windows application it would involve time consuming effort to open them, and every time I wanted to install an application I had to go to great effort to find a Linux version which was often not possible and so I ended up running two machines next to each other. I eventually realised that I was using the Windows machine for almost everything anyway and got rid of the Linux box.
Yes, Linux is technically a much better OS than Windows, but IMO in the real world if you just want to use your machine rather than spend all day fiddling with it then Windows is the way to go. In a server environment the opposite is true, Linux wins hands down for me every time.
I totally understand where you are coming from Paul. If I can resolve the problem of digi tacho download / analysis under Ubuntu / Linux Mint or similar OS that will enable me to bin Windows.
As it currently stands it appears that the whole of the Transport world run their computing operations under the Windows umbrella. Which is the complete opposite of what I was hoping for when I posted the question, but hey ho!
As I had posted the same question in the ‘Computing’ section of this site. On checking that it seems that I have an answer to this problem. For the benefit of people on here wishing to achieve the same objective as me, this is the link viewtopic.php?f=8&t=89772&p=1275491#p1275491.