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Time to Try a Linux Desktop?
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.'"
You must write viruses - of course Linux doesn't support the features you fuckers require.
Go ahead and stay in your virus-ridden world with Winblows, then. Those of us who have made the switch will laugh at you for the next 5 years (after which Micro$oft will be dead, gone, and good riddance) while you're fighting the latest worm.
Here's an idea - let's have a separate internet for Winblows lusers, that way those of us using a better OS (whether it be Linux, *BSD, MacOS, or Unix) don't have to be bothered with the crapware/malware that infects Winblows machines that just get powered on.
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.
Alito: A vote for Alito is a punch in the eye to put that bitch back in her place!
i tried suse the other week. modem and wireless card don't work with linux. not buying new ones. back to windows for me.
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?
Oh, okay! Does it support half of my hardware? No? Well fuck FreeBSD then.
Think that's a troll? Well, that's now most people with a computer running Windows would likely react.
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.
Look out!
... instead of fixing the problems, the Linux fanboys shall now hunt you down to the ends of the earth, using endless lies and doublespeak to show you the error of your ways!
You pointed out a few very obvious, very reasonable things that hold people back from adopting linux!
Things that require you to have good linux knowlege, where you can do the same thing with little knowlege using Windows.
if they let you live!
run!