I was working on my home machine the other day, cleaning up files and trying to remove un-needed folders and so forth. Thats cool yes nothing wrong with that. except I was doing it on a linux live system and when I rebooted into windows, it did not work anymore :(
Well thats cool, I then install Ubuntu 7 thinking that could do everything I need… wrong, in order for ubuntu to be useful at all you need a internet connection and that is something I don’t have at home. A standard install of Ubuntu you cannot watch dvd’s which is the main usage of my home pc, plus a number of other things, avi files don’t play without downloading the codec. I got a copy of vlc source hoping that this would solve the issue only to find out that the version of gcc cannot create executables. Great, what now? I am hoping to get a copy of fedora soon which could solve the problem but for now I have LindowsOS running which plays all the avi/dvds I need it to how every does not connect to SCSI drives where the avi’s are located.
This has made me wonder how far the linux desktop has come. When I think of a home machine the first thing I think of is no internet connection with the need to watch dvds and connect to local machines to share files. Also the need to mount hard drives and configure sounds cards is not on the menu of tasks to be done. The later versions handle some of the harder tasks but simple things are left out.
In the end the question I have on my mind on this topic is the open source going in the right direction? OS’s like Unbuntu are been targeted to third world countries where there is little chance of having a internet connection yet there system requires a connection….
