A Linux User Goes Back

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday July 10, 2002 @05:43AM from the stuff-to-think-about dept.

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.

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That should keep you guys.. by djsable · 2002-07-10 05:45 · Score: 3, Funny

Ha!

that should keep you guys posting for days!
Stupid users by Reality+Master+101 · 2002-07-10 05:47 · Score: 4, Funny

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...

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No no no no no by daeley · 2002-07-10 05:47 · Score: 5, Funny

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.

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Re:Denial? by daeley · 2002-07-10 05:51 · Score: 3, Funny

I'm impressed by the maturity of the staff to do so.

Come on, Josh. We all know maturity = agreesWithMe.

Joking, joking. ;)

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This is cute... by NanoGator · 2002-07-10 06:09 · Score: 4, Funny

"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.

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Re:Best Point by pi+radians · 2002-07-10 06:23 · Score: 4, Funny

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!

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Re:Why I use Linux by epsalon · 2002-07-10 07:54 · Score: 3, Funny

Never heard of Windows Scripting Host? It supports a number of scripting languages.

No, Stupid! That's only for writing worms!

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Holy Crap, x86 hardware is cool? by Sloppy · 2002-07-10 11:45 · Score: 5, Funny

I'm reminded of the words of Abe Simpson: "I used to be with it, but they changed what 'it' is. Now what I'm with, isn't 'it' anymore, and what's 'it', seems weird and scary to me."
MAC's are cool, but so is x86 hardware.

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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