Not at the present, but will catch up quite soon and is already drawing users, who had used nothing but MS-Windows, to it (including yours truly). A few factors that is drawing users to it are :
1. Neater, snazzier looks...many graphic features available in it is currently available only in Vista.
2. Ease of user interface (no, I'm not kidding).
3. Ease of installing apps.
4. A very secure internet firewall, which invalidates the need for an antivirus.
5. And it comes as a free torrent download from the website (http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ since I am using Fedora core now...similar sites are also available for the other flavors).
Though any of the above points work out pretty well to call out for switching to Linux, the last works wonders...what's more, one can get a Red Hat licensed version for just US$4.00.
If you have got a dual core processor, you are better off enabling the 'SW single processor mode' which appears in the BIOS settings. Or you can download the x86_64 versions available, though a few bugs have to be sorted out in it.
A commoner who is not much into the technical aspects of the OS (like me) will definitely find the OpenOffice in Linux a huge boon. It can support about 50 different formats of word processor, presentation and spreadsheet apps, including those of MS-Office.
And the common belief that Linux cannot support the games supported by MS-Windows is soon to be dispelled with a Windows Emulator that can sort this out (available at http://www.winehq.org/ as a free download).
And finally, I have put together a few screenshots of Fedora 9 with a KDE 4.0 interface
The little clock is actually available in MS-Windows too, but only in Vista.
1 comment:
Well.. Linux does rock, looks better.
But I think these are not the strong points of Linux
1. Ease of installing apps -> It can be a pain compared to Windows.
2. Openoffice is definitely not as good as MS Office
3. Wine is good, but I don't think it works always. Games that need to access the registry would probably fail.
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