Shame, shame on me.
I’m not saying I would prefer a Microsoft product to an open source one, don’t get me wrong. But I am saying this: The last few weeks running Vista on my new laptop have showed me exactly how far behind Linux Desktops lag from "modern" OS experiences. It’s never been more clear to me the trade off you make when you make the choice to go Free and Open Source. It seem that in most cases. you’re picking the the lesser product.
The "Windows Tax" is a fallacy. That Vista is a miserable OS is a matter of perspective. From my perspective, "It Just Works" has really been the case with Vista and the exception in Ubuntu.
Case in Point: There is _no_ comparison between "Drivel" and "Windows Live Writer." I have been playing with Windows Live over the last couple of days, and I have to tell you, its not as bad as you think. In fact, if it was open source, I would be in love with it.
Windows Live Writer strikes me on first blush to be a superior blogging client. Look. I’m not one of those guys who hand codes each and every entry using raw XML. I wish I was, but I’m lazy. I’m a WYSIWYG kind of guy. But Live Writer is the first Blogging client that inserts Technorati Tags in a way that I like.
It integrates nicely with WordPress and has a kick ass "Preview" mode that you can use to proof your posts before you publish them. It’s got an SDK, for god’s sake.
(This is a repost, reconstructed from the Google Cashe)
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1 Jonas // Nov 21, 2007 at 10:02 pm
Funny since Vista is the product that finally made me ditch Windows completely…it caused no ends of trouble on a variety of machines. Including one laptop that was shipped with it, and I was less than thrilled with some of the changes introduced even on the machines it did work fine on. Let’s just say that I disagree with Microsoft’s “change for the sake of change” policy.
I’ve liked Windows since Win95 (with the exception of Win98SE), and used it for longer than that but can’t see many advantages in Vista over XP or Linux for that matter.
The one thing Windows has over Linux is some apps that would be nice to have, and that blogging client seems very nice indeed even if it does seem to waste screen real estate, but that’s it as far as I’m concerned. But that does not mean that the Linux Desktop as a whole lags far behind. All it means is that some windows-only apps would be nice to have for Gnome and/or KDE.
And honestly, it seems like you would be inclined to agree since most of your post is about drivel (which is rather aptly named…) vs Live instead of the whole experience.
And in my experience, no OS can claim “it just works”. It’s always a hit and miss affair on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X or BSD.
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2 beerfan // Nov 22, 2007 at 1:24 am
The only shame is that your blog is included in Planet Ubuntu. It seems like every other post is filled with nothing but FOSS slams and MS lovin.
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3 phocean // Nov 22, 2007 at 3:49 am
The shame is that there is no argument at all. Taking a blog software as an prove of the Microsoft superiority made me laugh.
We need facts, otherwise this is just FOSS indeed.
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4 Administrator // Nov 22, 2007 at 12:19 pm
@Phocean: I think you mean FUD.
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Submitted by heygabe on Sun, 12/23/2007 - 10:16.