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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.
Ha!
that should keep you guys posting for days!
I had to laugh at this...
Stupid users don't doggedly stick at something for three and a half years, trying distribution after distribution in the hope of finding the holy grail of Linux desktops.
Hmmmm.... I don't know about that...
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
Tell your friend that if you want to switch, you're supposed to go here:
http://www.apple.com/switch/
not here:
http://www.microsoft.com/billgates/
Friends don't let friends use XP.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
I'm impressed by the maturity of the staff to do so.
;)
Come on, Josh. We all know maturity = agreesWithMe.
Joking, joking.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
LiNuX is teh r0X0rZ! M$ suX0rZ!
Golly, it looks as though there's trouble once again in Gotham! Someone appears to have assembled a variation on the tried-and-true Lunix troll and gotten it posted to the front page of Slashdot!
He remembers to point out that X is slow, that Windows problems can be fixed with "a point and a click," and even throws in some prime bait about driver support and stability in Windows XP.
What should we do, Batman?
"on the desktop" has come along way in recent years, yet could still stand much improvement."
Amusing. Every time I say this I get modded down.
"Derp de derp."
kNIGits: "I expect that the Linux community will have something to say about this article; I welcome comments and constructive criticism. Flames will be automatically sent to the Windows equivalent of /dev/null, once I find where that actually is."
Try to pipe it to the NUL: device (an old DOS trick)
// Fraxinus
Best OS? Linux is the one.
Help is online by the ton.
"Can't detect network?
RTFM Jerk!"
Why hasn't Linux caught on?
I think that this is very applicable to the *nix community. Hopefully it will change in the future. I've always gone out of my way to help people with their problems.
Keeping
Ha ha ha, check out this guy! He uses REDHAT!!!! Ha ha ha ha ha. Get a real distro! Sucka dj!
But with all seriousness (is that even a word?) it is quite true. There is far too much "civil war" between users and their differring distros. People need to grow up and realize that everyone is right, with the exception of all of those Mandrake users. It's just so stupid. Oh, and I can't stand the arrogant Slackwarers. Oh and Mac OS X isn't Unix. So quit pretending you hippie freaks!
sin(6cos(r)+5A)
And let me just comment on how eye pleasing CDE is...
blah blah blah....
drightler@technicalogic.com
Never heard of Windows Scripting Host? It supports a number of scripting languages.
No, Stupid! That's only for writing worms!
Make even shorter URLs - 8LN.org
From the article:
I was getting tired of the 'stable' Debian release being so out of date
But it lets you be out-of-date on 11 different architectures!
x86 hardware is cool?! Cheap. Ubiquitous. Brutal and Medieval. Hot as an oven with an overclocked Athlon microcontroller in Hell's at 3:00 PM on a sunny August afternoon and sixty miles from the nearest beer cooler. Less hip than your parents telling your girlfriend about your potty training. But cool?! x86 hardware is cool?!??? x86 hardware is about as cool as training wheels on your Edsel, as Pat Boone blairs out of the speakers, with a Latter Day Saints bumpersticker.
If you think x86 hardware is cool, your brain is infected. Have you been watching "Dude, you're getting a Dell" commercials?
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