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Time to Try a Linux Desktop?

Posted by michael on from the first-hit-is-free dept.

bigbadwlf writes "EWeek has an opinion column, posted yesterday titled, Isn't Now the Time to Try a Linux Desktop? Quote: 'The crackers currently have the whip hand over Windows, and Microsoft's assertion that Internet Explorer is now part of the operating system shows its flawed reasoning. Worried sick about the latest rash of Internet Explorer security problems? I have the perfect solution for you, one that's even better than switching to Mozilla, Firefox or Opera. Switch operating systems: Go to Linux.'"

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  1. You know... by the_mad_poster · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I just dumped Linux altogether for FreeBSD for one reason: it was a HORRIBLE desktop system.

    I went to log in one day and then ran startx. Imagine my surprise when xinit took over five minutes to run. Imagine my surprise when it took several minutes to launch a single Firefox or Nautilus window. Imagine my surprise when, under Gnome, it took several minutes to resolve hosts on my cable connection.

    Linux is NOT ready for the desktop. I dumped it for FreeBSD because I figured that if the desktop part was just going to stop working I might as well just run a BSD and forgo the prettiness altogether. Switching to Linux just because IE sucks ass is ridiculous. This is the sort of assinine nonsense that makes Linux supporters look like completely raving idiots.

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    Alito: A vote for Alito is a punch in the eye to put that bitch back in her place!
  2. Re:Linux? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Are you retarded? A kernel doesn't have 1000 distros. It doesn't have one distro.

    Lots of distros have the Linux kernel, but there is nothing fragmented about it (see for example, the free BSD kernels).

    You really are stupid, aren't you. You really thought Linus packed lots of fragmented distros into his tarball? You fucking loser, I can't believe that. Cletus, you should stick to fingering your uncle's anus and leave this computer stuff to the experts, OK?

  3. Re:Linux? by eurleif · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    Can you still run a Red Hat RPM you got in 1997?
    Yup.
    In addition, a unified API akin to .NET or Cocoa, instead of these 20 or so different APIs which require that I install all of them since everybody likes to code for different ones instead of coding to a standard.
    MFC, .NET, Win32... need I go on?
  4. Re:Finally by tonyr60 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yes printer are hard are they not...

    In Yast2, go to add printer, click the extra printers box (This is the bit that is real hard, compared to Windoze), and select SMB printers.

    Then either type in the printer and server details, or let Yast2 find it.

    Much, much harder than Windoze.