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Nerds Switching from Apple to Ubuntu?
Mindpicnic writes "The recent switch of two lifelong Mac nerds to Ubuntu hasn't escaped Tim O'Reilly's radar. He cites Jason Kottke: 'If I were Apple, I'd be worried about this. Two lifelong Mac fans are switching away from Macs to PCs running Ubuntu Linux: first it was Mark Pilgrim and now Cory Doctorow. Nerds are a small demographic, but they can also be the canary in the coal mine with stuff like this.'"
Ubuntu? Try Knoppix !
mac nerd == oxymoron
mac fanboy == fact
Unbu** Ubu**?%#@? How can I pronounce that ? Ubuntu.com ??.. so they even have their own domain.. lets see if they own trademark for it... oh!
UBUNTU (LIVE) Owner (APPLICANT) Canonical Limited COMPANY ISLE OF MAN
wow!, so some dude create offshore Isle Of Man company to cover this shaggy "operation" or maybe this is genuine effort, fuck, they own commercial federal US trademark!!!! thats insulting man, considering this should be as "free" as in beer, "open source" right?..no one does anything for free at the end of the day...
check out the website... oh yeah, typical loser website... wow, they even surrendered their source code... omg [[ sudden idea came ]] I COULD CREATE MY OWN distro with a smarter name, create corporation and go public to harbor some capital from dumb venture capitalists.. hell yeah, like those monkeys at SCOX LNUX RHAT did. Anyway, I feel sorry this is not publicly traded so could have shorted this pig for major gain.
No one will be using Macs in 20 years.
Just because it CAN be done, doesn't mean it should!
Why would I want to settle for the OSX UI that is clunky and gets in my way more often than not? If I wanted that I could just run gnome.
The Farewell Tour II
"Why put up with any of that [shitware and expense] when you can get the best of all worlds for free?"
Well, I would agree with you that the best of all possible worlds for free beats expensive shitware, however, my experience with Linux [Ubuntu included] has been that there is a reason it is free, namely no one in his right mind would pay for such utter dung. Consequently, while I agree that the best of all possible worlds for free is, well, the best of all possible worlds; I assume you think Linux represents the best of all possible worlds and in that you are gravely mistaken.
Look on the bright side, though, you are destined to be happy your entire life because you are just so damn easy to please.
By the way, has anyone else noticed that the HTML tags on here don't work like they used to?
Waaaaaaahh. Mommy. Those evil linux coders will only let me run photoshop up to version 7 on their operating system. Make them stop!.
I love it when you guys are reduced to whining about versions of photoshop!.
evil is as evil does
I know, the nerds out there are saying "just edit your x config file", right? OK, but here's the thing:
(1) that's an INEXCUSABLY STUPID AND LAZY way to design operating system software
(2) it's too easy to screw up your x config file and break x (and by "too easy" I mean "remotely possible")
So, tell me if I have this right: you're insisting on using an OS that's designed around the concept of a terminal, a shell and text configuration files, and you adamantly refusing to use a terminal, a shell, or edit a text file?
I'd suggest you'd be happier using Windows. It doesn't have any of those features you object to so strongly.
macintrash computers are the most useless piece of "computing technology" available. There is no "fallback program" i.e. DOS. They cost 10 to 20% more than a comparable IBM compatible PC. The powerbook has been known to actually start on fire. With that said, here are some things about anti-mac.
"Watch out, don't touch it!"
"Oh no, I looked at it, I think I'm blind!"
Things to do to macintrash
"Is it supposed to do something?"
Put chewing gum in the floppy drive
Touch a live wire (capacitor) to the parallel port
Leave it for someone else to use
Laugh at it
Take the keyboard or mouse
Flick it off
See how well it works in an oven
See what happens to it after a 5 story drop
Change the boot files, oops!! there aren't any, well just delete the system folder
Turn it upside down and let it freak out the next person to use it
Sell it and buy a pack of gum
Taunt it with a PC
Laugh at it some more
Give it to aliens, then laugh at the aliens
Humiliate it in front of other macs
Use it as a cheap paper weight
Put an Intel Inside sticker on it
Feed it to your dog
Use it to scoop up your dog's crap
Use the mouse as a laso
Use it as a step ladder
Use it as a plunger
Try to sell it as a cheap, slow commodore
Race it against a lobotomized snail, film snail taunting mac at finish line
Give it to someone you hate with a PC emulator card, tell them it is an intergrated Compaq, it'll run like a 286-5, make their computing life a living hell
Most elementary schools own them, And then they wonder why illiteracy is so high.
"Do you have to feed it to keep it running?"
Why We Hate macintrash
"What the hell is that?"
Where is the disk eject?
They only have one mouse button, less productivity
Where are the function (F1, F2, etc.) buttons?
They are slow as hell
Only macintosh makes the software
No real multi-tasking
Real men use DOS
Your system has crashed, what do you do now (without the backup (DOS))
They're not IBM compatible
They're made by the same people that made the apple IIe
They're not quite as powerful as a Commodore or Tandy
The Atari had better games
Microsoft's chairman, Bill Gates, is very public, who the heck is mac's chairman
Formatting a disk takes up half of its space
They have about as much memory as Ronald Reagan
No real businessman would own one or be caught using one
They somehow force schools to buy them so students don't learn how to use a real computer untill college
It costs more for everything on a mac
"If my computer was that slow, I would use an abacus!"
Um, dude *snicker*. I'm not wrong. This is simply Apple policy, has been for years. What part of this do you not understand? How can this be made more clear for you? You are convincing me that you are a liar more and more. Being a contractor and having used this service many times (I've serviced hundreds of Apple laptops) I am intimately aware of this program. You are making yourself look like a supreme jackass to all who are aware of this very simple policy that has been in place for years. You can do a simple google search to see this.
Are you mentally challanged or something? If you are, I apologize... But my bet is still on you simply being a liar. Nuff said.
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge." - Daniel Boorstin