On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:18:03 +0530, Rony gnulinuxist@gmail.com said:
FOSS users have to be content to make sacrifices as they cannot do everything that can be done on CSS platforms. It is a conscious decision one has to take before migrating to FOSS. Just yesterday, I wanted to copy some video CDs but K3B in Kubuntu 6.10 and 6.06 threw up errors that it cannot read disks with multiple tracks. Finally I had to use my Windows XP to do it using Nero. There are many such instances where one is compelled to use the Windows platform to get their work done.
This might have been your experience (and I commiserate), but that has not been my experience. Indeed, it is the other way around: few proprietary programs can read my BibTeX bibliography records, have no idea how to do proper kerning like TeX does, can't read my inkscape drawings, and so on.
In the last 14 years that I have been usingf Linux, I have found I can do more things with my machine than I would have been able to do with closed systems. Even now, running remote graphical applications is far simpler using xauth (which comes in the box), than the kludged systems on other non-UNIX-like operating systems.
Just look at the litany of complaints in just this thread -- if proprietary systems were capable, this thread would not exist.
manoj