Posted by Pastor Jack Howell
on 10/9/2009, 5:05 am
98.162.209.11
Windows 7 goes on sale on October 22nd and I pre-ordered my copy so I can upgrade Windows Vista on the Desktop PC. Despite all the negative bashing about Windows, I like it and use it more than I do Linux simply because there are a great many things I can do in Windows that Linux is still lacking in. For one thing, I can watch and record TV programs on Windows because the TV tuner card that came with my PC works "out of the box" and this same tuner card is NOT supported in Linux. My webcam I use for making my videos works out of the box in Windows, but is NOT supported in Linux. I can list many other things, as well, and the common response is "why not buy cards, webcams etc., that ARE supported in Linux?" My reply to that is, "why should I dish out extra money for those things when what I have already work right out of the box in Windows?"
Linux is nice and it gets better all the time, but it still has a long way to go before it becomes a major contender for the average home computer user. One reason why many hardware peripheral manufacturers are reluctant to support Linux with their products is that there are TOO many formats to consider in making their products work in Linux. They have to create drivers in .deb, .rpm, .tgz, and others because there is no standardized format among the various Linux distributions, as some favor the .deb format, while others favor .rpm, and others, their own proprietary format, and for these hardware/peripheral companies to have to create drivers for each format is a bit ridiculous when there should be one standardized format. Until Linux can come of age and adopt a standardized format, it will always be behind.
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