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What Keeps You Off of Windows?
J. J. Ramsey asks: "schnell has already asked the question What's Keeping You On Windows? It seems only fair to ask the opposite question. For those of you who have elected to not use Windows, what keeps you away from it? Concerns about stability? Security? Dislike of Microsoft's business practices? Or are you simply a fan of your chosen platform and just don't care about Windows one way or the other?" Might recent events sway your decision to keep Microsoft's premier software offering off of your computer?
Linux is dying(http://pepper.idge.net/gnaa/linux-dying.txt) .
The first step is admitting this. After that you can become a productive member of society and leave your days as an overweight and whiny linux zealot behind you forever.
Personally I use Windows because its free, the software is free and it runs reasonable on my P3 500 vs Linux which runs slower and needs 5gig just to install. That's why I do it
What keeps me off Windows?
Steve fucking Balmer: a man whose wobbling, flabby, sweating body is a testament to corporate greed. A stomping, ignorant, braying ogre, his mind a gelatenous mass of scams and ploys to kill any project dead that could possibly take a few cents out of his yearly multi-million dollar paypacket, bulging with the gonads of the PC manufacturers that Balmer and co have castrated and fettered. No matter that other companies are striving to produce something they believe in; something to give people choice, something they love, enjoy, advance and improve. No, mr fucking Blobby Balmer and his toad army are there, all puffed throats and poisonous flesh, yellow eyes swivelling toward their neighbours; whipping out their tongues to lash the hearts right out of anything like competition.
Rob Enderle/Brown/other 15 minute blunder: The snivelling, penny-a-word grubs thrown tit-bits by MS, SCO and anyone else with more cash than concience. These drive-by gutter-dwellers grinding their axes embossed with the "Made in Seattle" logos down the handles, the blades dripping reason, logic and fact as they slash their route through the increasingly "thick" jungle of online journalism. These congealed sacks of walking puss write to generate violent reactions and advertising rewards - they deserve real violence and lawsuits. Each day for an Enderle is just another opportunity to burp up another stream of carefully targetted bile, hoping it'll be lapped up by all the wrong people.
Clippy.
Code, Hardware, stuff like that.
This is bogus. There is not a single feature supported in Windows that is easier to configure in Linux. Linux has a severe issue with documentation, usability and general "stupid-user friendliness" that will always keep it bound to the elitist geek population rather than the mainstream world. There are a gazillion distributions of the OS itself that configure things in wildly different ways with virtually NO usability standards other than what it inherited from the Unix world.
Linux has its place, and yes I do love it; its an excellent work horse, but I don't have the time to spend hours working on getting some obscure software/hardware to install and run properly. Go ahead and flame me, but this is just my personal experience from a Linux user since '96.
Aw hell... it's fun to flame MS. Enjoy while they are still a monopoly. :)
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And what has the history taught us about the (non-)equivalence of the morality and law?
Failure of the competition IS the goal of any good, thriving business. It's just silly to start a business if you're not intent on crushing your enemy (and yes, seeing them driven before you and hearing the lamentations of their women ;-).
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I find it extremely hard to believe that your entire system would begin to constantly crash for some unknown reason.
Mate, this is many people's reality. You don't need to believe, the evidence is there right infornt of us.
Good that you get +4 for being able to suspend your belief, however.
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Because what your describing isn't the case for modern Linux distros. You can also drop fonts into your font directory and have them appear in Linux as well.
Honestly I just have to consider this post a Troll or the possibility that your are lying and have no interest in running Unix as an OS. Because if you had done ANY research there would be no way you could claim that "fonts" are the reason why you are being held back. What a lame excuse. Seriously. Say Linux doesn't support your Games, say its still a bit weak on the multimedia department, but don't give us an excuse from 1998 as the reason why you are "prevented" form using Linux.
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Man that was sloppy post. I understand why you don't want to attribute it to yourself. No one ever said anything about OS religion.
Unlike when your RPM database gets corrupted or when RedHat inadvertantly puts the wrong information on glibc and everyone upgrades and is left with a machine that you can only reinstall the OS on (the shortest path).
Look, if you cared that much about my stupid post, you would have pointed out that Linux isn't an operating system or platform. It's a kernel. Nothing more.
Further you shouldn't assume that redhat is the only distribution, or that I even use red hat. I don't think I even mentioned red hat in the post, come to think of it. Odd...
Simply a tangent to distract from your inexperience. "Linux" refers to a "platform" as much as just the kernel. There's plenty of "documentation" on the internet that supports this view. If you really, really cared enough to point this out, you'd probably type it as GNU/Linux because most of what you use interactively in a day running on top of your Linux kernel is actually GNU source.
Something goes wrong enough to where this is a feature?
Have you used Windows lately?
Daily times 9 (the number of Windows boxes that I typically touch and use daily, not including servers) times 16 hours a day (assuming I get 8 hours of sleep a night). A similar number of Linux machines are what I do my work on as well, not including any administrative tasks that I perform on either platform. I am a Linux software developer by occupation currently. I have, at times, been Windows, Irix, AIX, (a number of embedded platforms), Linux, and Solaris developer. My boxes, regardless of OS tend to be extremely stable with no/few problems. My latest issue has been getting an AMD64 box running stable with *any* Linux x86_64 distribution.
As opposed to the 1000s of games on the Windows box that all their friends are playing. Could be that you have only the default 5 games installed on the Windows box and they are tired of them and that's why they don't want to use those?
Yes, to put it back into context from left field "Games that come with Linux" was the operative term. Darnit, I called it Linux again, you should have corrected me. What kind of old timey know nothing snob are you?
Proof of that which exists today? or are you still living in 1995?
Yep, it's no secret. Don't believe me? Buy any third party firewall with application level blocking. Norton internet security catches most of them.
The burden of proof is on you to identify specific instances of this happening by naming applications or services that do such a thing. Otherwise, you are simply stating an accusation without proof. I'm not going to do your research for you.
Heh, yeah... those wonderful 'man' pages. When there is documentation, it is completely dry when having simply one example of a very common use would answer 90% of all questions about it. Linux documentation (and even Unix documentation for the most part) is seriously lacking. It's written by engineers for engineers. No examples, just lists of the 200+ command line options for every program with almost no direction of which ones are useful together.
Ouch. Sounds like fun. Actually, I've only really needed to resort to man pages a couple of times. There's this great thing here in the 21st century called the internet.
Yeah, the amazing that thing that I've been using for almost 20 years now. Google is usually my Linux/Unix help service and typically Google Groups finding people who have had similar problems and learning their solutions. IF the help that was actually present with the system was decent enough, I wouldn't have to use something else to find help, particularly looking for the trials and tribulations of other users who beat the machine into submission to fix their problems. This is not "documentation" in the traditional sense, which is typically prepared beforehand and dis
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If windows are so f**king userfriendly, then why is it only a few experts who can get it to run properly? For the rest of us, Linux is more stable and more easy to use.