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A Continued Look at Linux vs Windows

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the taking-a-step-back-to-really-see dept.

Rogier van Vlissingen writes to tell us Paul Murphy has an interesting writeup on his blog about the continued Linux versus Windows debate with regards to some of the recent insights provided by various groups. From the article: "Disinformation comes in three major forms: innocent mistakes, intentional disinformation (aka FUD), and (self) delusion. Delusions are easily the most dangerous of these. In the IT context the most common delusion is simply that what we know is right in general or applicable to some specific issue when, in reality, it isn't. We know, and we act accordingly - with frequently catastrophic results."

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  1. Yay. by emjoi_gently · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    More Windows vs Linux stuff.
    Can't get enough.

    Honestly.

  2. Re:news?....blogs? by slughead · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    They are usually biased and the writers are normally amateurs spouting incompetent opinions.

    I've met journalism majors. I prefer to read things not written by them, thanks. The only difference between bloggers and the average journalist is that journalists are biased and incompetent, but they're not amateurs--they do it daily!

    --
    Latewire
  3. Re:news?....blogs? by croddy · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    The average journalist also has human editors and fact-checkers.

    A blogger has a copy of wordpress and a spell checker.

  4. Maybe you'd be happier somewhere else. by node+3 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Oh, where to begin...

    The post wasn't a "news" story.

    Slashdot itself is a blog of sorts.

    Why can't a blog be a news source?

    Do you expect slashdot to adhere to New York Times or the ABC Nightly News level of journalism (whatever your opinion of that is)?

    What's wrong with someone posting their opinion on their own personal website?

    And last, this story is quite normal for Slashdot. If you don't think this is an appropriate story, then quite clearly slashdot is not the site for you. Either learn to customize the main page, or go away. You're not going to change slashdot, and staying around will just lead to frustration on your part, and annoyance on ours.

  5. It's a SuSE problem, not Linux by ziggyboy · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The only Linux administrator who was successful in meeting all requirements installed components and component versions that were not directly supported by the vendor (and in some cases custom compiled) that effectively put his system into an unsupported configuration.

    This only proves one thing, really: That SuSE sucks. Dependency problems you say? Ever heard of APT?!?!!

    Not exactly good news for Linux is it?

    Should have been: Not exactly good news for SuSE is it?