Is any Linux fit for purpose?

[Jesus_disciple]

I'm so glad few people want Linux, less chance of morons trying to write viruses etc for it.

To those who adore Windows and dislike Linux, please feel free to continue using Windows, but please bear in mind that not everyone agrees with you. Especially on this, the LINUX forum.

Personally, having discovered Linux and what it can do I am completely satisfied with it and I will never spend money with MS again.

[Thegreenwire]

Yes, I see your argument, all those USB3 devices and Windows can't run them?


Then again neither can Linux unless it now has the power to morph your conventional USB sockets into USB 3sockets...


So the facts are, yes Windows 7 does not support USB3 at launch, a standard that Microsoft helped develop. However as there are no USB3 devices available or USB3 sockets fitted to computers at the moment- Linux's compelling feature isn't very compelling. Windows 7 will support USB3, when there are some devices that can use it.


Anyway USB3 is not a de facto standard, the latest eSATA standard is faster and Intel is pushing the development of a fibre optic standard

[MOJO]

Hows this for the Sales Dept of Linux Inc (if only - tricky as its free)
If you use Linux (any sort) on your PC, Laptop or Netbook its like having Mac!

[ash59uk]

I tried mint but it didn`t work very well so I tried artist which works very well.

As for the win7 v linux argument each new version of windows has had to have many critical updates and service packs installed to sort out the bugs,probably because the new os is rushed out before it is ready, probably for the benefit of shareholders who are itching for a return on their investment,on the other hand linux is free but by no means perfect.

I could never totally get rid of xp as certain types of software available for windows for example video editing are far superior than the offerings on linux.

If all I did was surf and do some office type stuff in fact anything that can be done with more basic software then linux would do the job well.

When I installed artist it found all my hardware without any trouble and everything was fine.

I personally will not be playing microsofts game of needing to upgrade and will stick to xp.

I think xp was a mistake by microsoft as they made it too stable and efficient unlike 98 which I used before, so people were less likely to update hence the poor vista sales.

I will update sometime but that will be when I buy a new pc(probably window 10 )

[MOJO]

Anyway USB3 is not a de facto standard, the latest eSATA standard is faster and Intel is pushing the development of a fibre optic standard[/QUOTE]

BTW any idea if its true that present SATA cables must not be ever bent due to a fibre optic cable inside? This must provide a yes or no answer...(in thewrong forum - sorry..)

[penguin]

Originally Posted by MOJO

BTW any idea if its true that present SATA cables must not be ever bent due to a fibre optic cable inside? This must provide a yes or no answer...(in thewrong forum - sorry..)

Nope, someone's pulling your leg there, it's not fibre optics, it's Bio-technics.
There is an organic bacteria like organism which lives inside the cables in colonies and if you bend the cables the colonies can be physically damaged, get cancer and die.

[robert clayton]

"On September 18, 2007, Pat Gelsinger demonstrated USB 3.0 at the Intel Developer Forum. The USB 3.0 Promoter Group announced on November 17, 2008, that version 3.0 of the specification had been completed and was transitioned to the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF), the managing body of USB specifications. This move effectively opened the spec to hardware developers for implementation in future products."

And this must be something that doesn't exist

http://www.freecom.com/news.asp?id=9205&catName=press

The point of ratifying these standards is to allow operating systems to support them before hardware release. The lack of proper USB in W98 first edition isn't the way to do it.

"More generally, to permeate every type of computing device, USB 3.0 will need native support at OS level. That is the point of USB of whatever generation. Users can plug in a range of devices and they will just work without extra software being a necessity. Having to load a driver for every USB interface or device is clearly no more than a stop-gap solution."
Freecom
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Seems to me that Linux is doing exactly what the industry says a good operating system should do.

Bob