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Ubuntu On The Business Desktop

Posted by Zonk on from the crafty-consultants-club dept.

rchapman wrote to mention a Mad Penguin story about a consultant who installed Ubuntu on his work PC, and managed to use it for over a month before his boss even noticed. From the article: "This is not a typical review, because you've read enough of those. Instead, lets pretend I'm a typical worker, who just happens to have a soft spot for Open Source software. I want to use Linux, but I have a job to do. The price of Freedom should not be my salary. I don't have time to fiddle, all I care is whether or not it can do what I want, right now. So what do I want out of my system?"

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  1. Re:Me too by AppyPappy · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I do a lot of Access development and it's a waste. I'm a programmer. Access is supposed to be an end-user tool. The end-users can't figure out Access for snot. So I have to do all the devlopment of reports, forms, modules and queries. I SHOULD be using a better tool and database than Access but we are sold on Access because it is a good end-user tool.

    Freaking circular logic. We would be better off creating a real database in MySQL or Postgres or Oracle and using an ODBC link into Excel since the users understand Excel...somewhat.

    Access is a PIG. It pisses me off.

    And I'm not using Ubuntu because it just don't sound American.

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  2. Re:Haven't used Linux... by eno2001 · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Suffice it to say that when my Linux using friends are scrambling to figure out how to get their machine to boot, figure out how to do simple things like change the screen resolution and griping about .config files, I'm always up and running without a glitch.

    Apparently they don't know much about computers then. Do they? And neither do you...

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  3. Re:Haven't used Linux... by eno2001 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Then you have no business commenting on things you don't know about. If you're a business user, why are you commenting on this? What input do you have in this discussion and WHY are you even reading this article? In other words what do YOU have to prove?

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    -"...bad old ideas look confusingly fresh when they are packaged as technology" - Jaron Lanier (Digital Maoism on Edge.o
  4. Re:Haven't used Linux... by eno2001 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And you're also the same loudmouth dumbass I dealt with many times a Trolling4Dollars. Your the same guy who loaded up a bunch of credit cards to operate your PORN (not that I have anything against porn) "business" and who actually thinks that being in debt is a great thing. Oh and by the way... ninenine.com sucks. If you want you want good and REALLY FREE pron, check out Sublime Directory. Stick it up your craw NineNine. You and your whole neocon self righteousness.

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    -"...bad old ideas look confusingly fresh when they are packaged as technology" - Jaron Lanier (Digital Maoism on Edge.o