Why I left Linux for Windows. 2154

On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 05:43:32 -0700, George Peatty

Apart from Posix standards, there needs to be a great standardization within Linux.

One of the biggest problems (and I'll sound like a MS supporter here, which I'm not) is the absence of a governing body for Linux.

Apart from the file structure, I was going through the kernel source the other night and for one, there is virtually NO code comments at all within it.

Pretty crappy really, in light of the source being available.

Maybe Linux is getting more buggy due to half the programmers writing for the kernel not understanding what the other half does (coz its not commented).

Not having a go at the job they do at all, just the lack of comments for others to understand it.

May as well make it closed-source.

I do know what I'm taking about here. I have a Bachelor's degree in Computing with System Development as my major (mainly aimed at mainframe and government-type system development).

One of my teachers always said, "One line of code, one paragraph to explain what it does".

Funny how no-one seems to follow this and in the end, all OSes turn to poo eventually coz they become bloated and NO-ONE, even the original creators of it, know what half of the code does anymore.

I agree that KDE and X really need a redo.

Gnome was good up till about v1.4 (when they put Nautilus into the mix), and now its being turned into a "Windows" clone.

There are lot of programs missing in Linux I agree. I do a lot of stock market trading and the Linux stock analysis programs are either in antique status or support the US like it is the only stock market in the world.

Linux really needs to get into supporting wireless technologies.

I understand that its often hard to gain manufacturer support and get them to write Linux drivers, but honestly, a more commercial approach really needs to be taken.

Instead of just having programmers who write software, maybe an additional way of doing it is to send delegates to the manufacturers and explain how much market they would gain by writing drivers for linux.

Agreed totally.

Its funny that as much as Linux enthusiasts would like to bring Linux to the fore and take over the world by replacing all Windows desktops, they feel threatened by a need to explain high-tech into layman's terms.

This has always struck me as counterproductive to the Linux cause.

If Linux is ever to really be adopted, a Setup.exe type of system like Windows is going to need to be adopted, as much as people like fiddling with source or satisfying the umpteen dependencies needed for rpms and deb packages.

One of the problems with forking of code (which opensource allows).

Everyone goes their own separate way with the almighty source and in the end, breaks into camps advocating there's is the best, much like religions (and look what they've done to the world).