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Five Reasons Not to Use Linux
UltimaGuy writes "Linux-watch has a humorous article about the top 5 reasons for not using Linux. It does provoke some thought aside from bringing a smile to our lips :)"
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Talk about deluting yourself, reason #3 is pure horse shite.
where's the Maya/3DS/LW/Softimage alternative? It doesn't exist (dont be a bone head and suggest Blender here, its like comaring a 79' VW to a Ferrai).
where's the video editing solutions? We have one decent one, but all with haggid no-useable interfaces (seen from a non-linux-fanboiii perspective).
Where's the DVD authoring software(i know about dvd-author, and the v.0.0.1 guis being made for it. From a desktop users perspective these are 100% useless atm)? Heck, where's the LEGAL dvd player to watch your newly mastered holyday vid?
Where's the CAD/CAM software?
Where's the games?t
You know what. Fuck you. Fuck every single god damn one of you idiots.
Windows XP - 2001.
When was the distro you're talking about released? 2005?
Oh, really, one has more vulnerbilities than the other on a fresh install. That's fucking amazing! Let me sit here for a few minutes and figure out which one. Oh man, this is fucking hard. Is it Windows? Really? It is. Well LOL, Windows blows. It's so insecure. Clearly Linux is more secure because out of the box Linux lasts longer.
-If God wanted people to be better than me, he would have made them that way.
X.org is a fantastic reason to not use linux. I have a Dell 2001FP. A nice, very modern 20' TFT. When I do a fresh install of X.org on gentoo and run x -configure it happily looks up the plug and play settings of my monitor, determines all the numbers for horizontal and vertical sync, THEN THROWS THEM OUT, and tells me I have to configure it manually. I have to repeat that whole ordeal of manually specifying my plug and play settings every single time I plug a new monitor into my computer. Oh yah. It can't find my mouse unless I tell it where to look, Or my keyboard. Windows has never had any problem figuring out where the keyboard and mouse are, and only rarely has trouble figuring out the resoulutions my monitor can run. Furthermore I don't have to tell it "yes, you can run at 640x480, 800x600 1024x768 etc etc etc." It just WORKS. /linux is only free if your time is worthless.
Then don't use Ubuntu. Use something powerful like Debian. Sounds like a personal problem to me. If you get screwed with Winblows, you're screwed; there is no other distro.
Reason number three: Linux doesn't have enough applicationsThere's a good emulator called Wine that provides a compatability layer between the Win32 API and the X API. http://winehq.org/ is the site and provides packages for most major distros (including Ubuntu and my favorite, Debian).
Interesting opinion piece. I have one question - what have your woes with installing Bugzilla on Linux got to do with a Linux vs. Windows debate? You did know that you can run Bugzilla very easily on Windows (despite the wording to the contrary on the Bugzilla website) didn't you? Seeing as you run Windows every day would that not have been better time spent?
Caesar si viveret, ad remum dareris.
Uh, wrong. I work on free software as a hobby (excluding the portions of my job that involve OSS, which in no way entail catering to idiots like you), and therefore I'll do what I damn well please -- and it's only my own damn problem that I work for free in that I do it for fun, i.e. it's not a problem.
If you'd read any of this discussion -- you did, didn't you? -- you'd know that I don't "advocate the adoption of Linux." Personally I think it's a terrific system that a lot of people have jointly created and shared with everybody, and it's great if other people find interesting uses for it and enjoy the wealth of free software, but that in no way means I or anyone else owes you any of the things you listed: software, customer service, a Windows-like "user-friendly" experience, etc.
As I've already said twice here, you're a dick, and I'd recommend you think a little more about how OSS works and your expectations, or find a more appropriate venue for your piss-headed complaints.
Fuck it