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A Linux User Goes Back
An anonymous reader says "A friend of mine recently switched to using Windows XP after three and a half years of Linux. I thought the community might benefit from reading his story. Even as a dedicated Linux user, I agree with many of his points. 'Unix on the desktop" has come along way in recent years, yet could still stand much improvement. It is no longer an issue of having a fancy GUI (KDE can't get much better), but rather the real problems lie in the foundation.' Some of his points are wrong, but it's a reasonable article.
fonts for fsck's are simple
........ /etc/fstab and add the following text .....
find a nice postscript font and stick with it
you proberly thinking about websites that are stupid
X is slow : its not you have not changed the defaults that are made to work with all possible and not speed
people cant use and editor : the stupid rant about people who cant follow instructions about editing a file
try giveing intructions on what you have to do to change config in windows e.g. right click on network neibourhood properties
compared to open the text file
this is so off base its amazing
then he goes and uses mozilla but fails to protect his machine with any sort of firewall when he connects with Microsoft Windows XP
fool's
regards
john jones
Instead of a shitty vampire-OS that just pimps off of Unix, one could even pick a real Unix box. The stuff from Sun Microsystems comes to mind.
You think it's easy to hook up a CDRW or a scanner to a Sun? Solaris, IRIX, HP-UX, AIX, they all suck when you try to do things like that. Windows and OS 9/OS X have it pretty well figured out, and OS X has it (mostly) figured out on top of a Unix kernel. I really don't care if you like Macs or hate them, or if you like OS X or hate it. You have to give credit where it's due.
Then again, you're an AC, so who the hell cares what you think?
Look, People here don't want to buy $2000+ in Mac hardware to do what a $1500 PC will do, only the PC will be compatable with more software and won't cost an arm and a leg to upgrade. I know that Mac has a better UI, but with that UI comes crappier and more expensive hardware.
I wonder if they'd actually do that? I wouldn't put it past them. They have more money than... well everyone. Have you ever been interviewed by them? They ask stupid riddle questions and could care less about your work experience. I turned down a job with them because they 1) are the devil and 2) wanted me to be a programmer, and that I am not. I have no doubts that they at least have some coops who are told to submit to Slashdot. Looks like this one is getting overtime pay for it.
~ now you know
Having used WinXP since last October, I would have to say you obviously didn't spend much time with it.
It's a considerable improvement over Win2k, and feels much more polished than Win2k ever did.
As far as OS X, it seriously offers no competition. The UI is completely unintuitive and there is little application availability for it. Even jobs has admitted they are having a hard time convincing Mac users to switch as most new Macs are selling with OS9 installed.
As for your remark about overclocked Athlons being hot, well, that's what you get for buying AMD trash.
The only way the typical /.er can pick up a chick is with a forklift. -- AC