Reply to post: Re: The ONLY things going for it were ( @AC )

Re: The ONLY things going for it were ( @AC )

Going to have to disagreee. I'm a Linux fan but it wasn't until the mid 2000s that I found it was rock solid.

There were always issues with hardware

- display drivers

- modems

- network cards - in particular wifi cards

Then the software. Yes we got OpenOffice, but original builds were as unreliable as Windows 98 - I lost at least one typed report due to an OOo crash.

Trying to get software to integrate nicely with the KDE/Gnome launchers.

Trying to install/update something and landing in dependency hell.

Eclipse did give Linux a great DE (for those of us who need more handholding than VIM :) )