Articles tagged ‘windows’

Ubuntu is indeed responsible for the huge growth of Linux home-users due its simplicity of out-of-the-box use. As a brief retrospective, the emerging (in past) Linux distributions were always known to their difficulty on setting up the propper drivers and essential software. If you were installing on a laptop, things turned out to be a nightmare. At this point, only IT people used Linux because home-users were scared away (I think it coincided with the ugly GTK 1.x interfaces – under Gnome).

Ubuntu emerged to aid home-users and be more user-friendly, having and startup installation that would recognize and install all your drivers and give you a starting setup of the most common used tools like e-mail clients, IM clients, web browser and an office suite.
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We’ve all seen the most diverse kind of article of “Best web development ________”, “Applications to aid agile web development”… ahh that word “agile”…

The thing that worries me about all those buzz is that it’s all partial. I’m not crucifying people but its what to expect: If the writer is a Windows user, it’ll provide an article about Windows environment softwares and practices. (You can keep reading, this is not a Windows vs Linux post)

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