{"id":1508,"date":"2004-09-07T22:09:28","date_gmt":"2004-09-07T21:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2004\/09\/07\/eweek_linux_doesnt_make_sense_for_desktops"},"modified":"2004-09-07T22:09:28","modified_gmt":"2004-09-07T21:09:28","slug":"eweek_linux_doesnt_make_sense_for_desktops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2004\/09\/07\/eweek_linux_doesnt_make_sense_for_desktops","title":{"rendered":"eWeek: Linux Doesn&#8217;t Make Sense for Desktops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An article on the eWeek website opines that Linux isn&#8217;t viable for the desktop &#8211; anyone who wants to get away from Windows to a decent desktop should get a Mac, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eweek.com\/article2\/0,1759,1641114,00.asp\">says David Coursey<\/a>.  (I found this on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.osnews.com\/\">OSNews<\/a>, see &#8220;Longhorn Delays Make Room for <strike>Linux<\/strike> Mac OSX&#8221;.)<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nMy take on this is that the systems are very different, and Linux is very configurable &#8211; it has a vast choice of operating environments, which the Mac has much less of.  PCs are also much cheaper than Macs, and anyone who wants a Mac has to pay Apple&#8217;s &#8220;style tax&#8221;, in terms of actual cost, inferior equipment (TFT monitors instead of proper CRTs, which give better image quality, last longer, and cost less &#8211; TFTs just take up less space), lack of expandability, and lack of choice.<\/p>\n<p>On top of this, the Linux community is part of the wider open-source software community, which has an ethos of software developed for the community.  There are, for example, <i>many<\/i> open source FTP clients for Linux, and to my knowledge, there are none for the Mac, only a free download and various free one-month trials.  Some people might say you get what you pay for, but in my experience, the freely-available FTP clients for Linux are excellent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article on the eWeek website opines that Linux isn&#8217;t viable for the desktop &#8211; anyone who wants to get away from Windows to a decent desktop should get a Mac, says David Coursey.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-ok","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}