OSS fanboism is bad thing, guys. Microsoft stifled the developement? Aw come on! Even now newbie user CAN NOT use Linux. No, he can't. And you're talking about 8 years ago! MS brought PC's to your home. And I'm very thankful for that.
I gave my mom a Red Hat box years ago and she still uses it. It's P233 and still running, maintenence free all these years. She's on her third monitor. She has no problem using Linux. She doesn't even know it's linux.
The comparision between flash and silverlight is actually probably not a good one. I think AIR is probably the closer analogue.
Silverlight is very similar to Flash. AIR is completely different in that it runs outside of a browser and potentially offline.
If people think that Flash is a bloated pig, then what makes them think that Silverlight would be any better? It's a bigger install and performance is very similar. I can understand that it would be nice, one day, to have Flash, Silverlight and JavaFX on the IT so we can access all the rich content out there, but are the ITs up to it right now?
Personally, I hope Silverlight doesn't become widely adopted as it's the most closed of the 3 platforms and therefore it wouldn't take much for them to kill/slow development of it on non-Windows platforms (and history suggests that's a distinct possibility).
OSS has been driving UI innovation for years. OSS is waaaaay out in front in the Eye candy and feature department.
Umm ok.. what like prettier xterm? Please name examples... as i am pragmatic but am not pursuaded by your argument that i must somehow been living under a rock...
Umm ok.. what like prettier xterm? Please name examples... as i am pragmatic but am not pursuaded by your argument that i must somehow been living under a rock...
Fedora 7/8? Ubuntu Feisty/Gutsy? Kubuntu? Suse 10? Not to mention the recent release of KDE4.
Umm ok.. what like prettier xterm? Please name examples... as i am pragmatic but am not pursuaded by your argument that i must somehow been living under a rock...
Hi Rockman,
If we're taking that path, majority terminal emulators for Linux look much better than cmd.exe and powershell. Judging by your comment, you haven't scoped it out much. In eye candy, the major desktop environments all have nice, configurable compositing effects.
As far as features and configuration goes, that's what makes the Linux learning curve high. You can tweak and tune and make your WM/DE of choice look exactly the way you want it without any hacks. Us nerds love configurations, and both Microsoft and Apple fail to provide a standard way to do it on their platforms for an illusion of simplicity.
I could go on since you gave such a broad statement, but I won't waste my time.
