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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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Sure, Windows is easier to use than Linux. But eventually you just get so frustrated that you have to take an angle-grinder to your computer, and it really takes a long time to get all the little bits of metal out of the carpet.
The article was mildly amusing, but on the whole it seemed like a bit of a sarcastic rant. Not that I don't like those, but I expect more out of a Slashdot headline story.
Ignore Alien Orders
A reason not to use Linux: Choice.
Many distro's of Linux to choose from, so many applications to choose from...
Man, choosing is almost like thinking, it's hard!
1. OpenServer 6 Costs Less
2. SCO Has a Superior Kernel
3. OpenServer Has Better Security
4. SCO Has a Customer-Driven Roadmap
5. OpenServer 6 is Backward Compatible
6. SCO Allows You to Focus on Your Core Competency
7. SCO Owns and Warrantees its Products
8. SCO is Unifying its Code Base
9. SCO UNIX: Legendary Reliability
10. SCO Has an Award-Winning Support Team
Read TFL for buzzwordy drivel and meaningless tripe from Darryl himself. Didn't know he'd registered a website in his name to spout his n0nsense.
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
You already have MacOS X :D
A Few Linux Administrators
...we use these words in a lifetime spent defeating software rivals. You use 'em as a punch line. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a user who surfs and emails on the Internet that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I'd prefer you just said thank you and went on your way. Otherwise, I suggest you format your C:\ drive and load Windows 3.11. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you're entitled to.
with apologies to Jack Nicholson (as Bill Gates, on trial for releasing his Code Red "update" and destroying the Open Source Software movement)
You can't handle the truth!
Son, we live in a world that has data. And that data has to be guarded by men with servers. Who's gonna do it? You? Linus?
I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for Open Source and you curse Microsoft. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know: That Linux's death, while tragic, probably saves data. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves the Internet. You don't want the truth. Because deep down, in places you don't talk about at board meetings, you want me in that Server Farm. You need me in that NOC. We use words like Start, Update, Explorer
Did you release the code red?
I released the update your servers were begging for.
Did you release the code red!?
You're goddamn right I did!
Uva Uvam Vivendo Varia Fit
If you would have actually read my blog, you'd have seen that I had read the article. My article discusses how the 5 reasons NOT to use linux the author gives actually are VALID, whereas he sarcastically makes them all invalid. Yes, it's s a rebuttal to the article after all. Gosh, you criticizers can be such morons sometimes.
It's bad for the economy!! Imagine buying a computer system and having it still usable for modern applications nearly a decade later. The various Linux distros allow for this. That cuts into profits for desktop and server sales. That's why Windows is the better choice. It pushes the hardware requirements up so quickly that you need to get new hardware every two to three years. This is good for the economy. Therefore Linux is UnAmerican.
-"...bad old ideas look confusingly fresh when they are packaged as technology" - Jaron Lanier (Digital Maoism on Edge.o
Hellllooo.... notepad.exe
We were promised a humorous article.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
-- Thou hast strayed far from the path of the Avatar.
> Then how come OSX is so freakin' easy for everyone to use? It only takes a few minutes.
It's not. It took me about 15 minutes to work out how to get my CD back out of the "screen" on our office iMac when I put it in there once.
With friends like these...
Oooohhh - did you notice how strongly biased the article is against Windows? It's even outright lying:
"And, Microsoft also has Microsoft Office, which -- oh wait, you don't get that with the operating system, do you? You also don't get a Web page editor either, do you?"
Windows comes with full office and web editing capabilities for free: wordpad
What you simply don't get is that with Linux most people write the software to use it themselves.
He gets it.
He also gets that that is one of the reasons Linux seems to have "scattershot design by committee of blind idiots"...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_3.x
Windows 3.0 was released on May 22, 1990..
Sir, owned is you.
Because servers running Linux evidently get Slashdotted pretty easily ...
Always keep a sapphire in your mind
Whoa there tiger... no need to over do it!
All I ever needed was the edit command from the command prompt. Quite possibly the first multi-tabbed text editor around. (I say "quite possibly" because I really have no idea)
That was the best text editor I've ever used before I started working with TextPad.
Hmmm witty sig or funny sig? Maybe elitest techy sig!
Typical UI designer speak, they obviously failed to QA half the population.
Give a man a fish and you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish, and he'll say "WHERE'S MY FISH, YOU IDIOT?"
If you need someone to demonstrate to your newborn the nipple interface, you can always call on me. I've got your back!
Live forever, or die trying.
You know, there's a lot of truth in that. The Mac, and the entire Apple experience, is intuitive for a certain kind of person. Artists, fashion mavens, leftists, and other creative personalities can sit in front of a PowerBook and just "get it," but accountants and everyday pencil-pushers don't have a prayer. Squares should stick to Linux and Windows. Macs are for different thinkers.
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Only reason I am stuck with Windows. I don't want to have to reboot into Windows every time I want to just load up a game for 15 mins. I know Winex and the transgaming group has come a long way, but it still isn't close enough for me.
You miss: 11. Pray
Well if nobody in her family uses linux, then who the hell installed it in her computer? The Gnomes?
Well... maaaaybe the Gnomes, but who else?
I have since tried Windows some more, and I think it is fine if you get a bit used to it. My friend at school uses it a lot. He says it can do all different kind of things, but you have to buy some more stuff or get it from an FTP server in zero days.
I am not so skilled at the things you mentioned, but I will try it out and see what it can do for me. My system is a RedHat, which I bought with the software on. What I find hard about Windows is that you have to install it yourself.
My cousine helps me with the computer. Sometimes he needs to become "rude" on the computer to make it work. Is it why you are rude too?
:-) = I am happy
:^) = I am happy with my big nose
C:\> = I am happy with my OS
Exactly. technical details of his post aside, he's right. Windows is easier to use. They don't spend hundreds of millions of dollars on research to make their UI intuitive for sh*ts'n'giggles.
Please tell me where I can get this easy to use Windows. I would be very happy to know, because I am getting close to "fixing" this XP thing with a sledgehammer, because it's so frustrating to use. Nothing is easy in XP, everything is hidden in the most unintuitive place they could find.
Please, I want to have an easy to use Windows too.