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.

Comments

No no no no no

[daeley]

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.

Holy Crap, x86 hardware is cool?

[Sloppy]

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?