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Linux Desktops Catching On In Education
digihome writes to point us to an appreciation of the state of Indiana's project of moving students from Windows desktops to Linux. In about a year, 22,000 students have made the switch, using a variety of Linux distributions. The crn.com writer tried switching his own two children to Linux laptops. From the article: "'So Dad,' [the 10-year-old son] asked. 'What is the difference between Linux and Windows?' I tried to explain but it was a waste of breath. 'What difference do you see?' I asked back. 'Nothing, really.'"
What the hell is IDC smoking?
http://saveie6.com/
So what your saying is that there are probably 22K new linux desktop environments running god knows what distro and probably full of known expliots and missing infinite number of kernel patches? No windows update to bail it out. I also can't wait until they get hit with a redhat license audit.
AWESOME troll for Troll Tuesday!!! I especially like the misspelling of literate. Nice touch there! :) Let me add a little fule to the fyre as it were...
Top ten differences between Windows and Linux for high schoolers:
1. You can't buy software for Linux in stores!!! (Sure it's free online, but since you don't pay for it, you don't feel like you've done your virtuous duty of paying for software like you do with Windows. Oh wait... piracy? Yeah, but that's illegal!)
2. How am I gonna keep up with all the Windows virii (hehehe I LOVE that one) that turn my PC into a spambot!!? The last time I checked the Wine Software Compatibility DB, I noticed they STILL haven't ported a lot of the older virii over yet!
3. DVDs won't play on Linux!!! (Never mind that you can watch them with Xine, Mplayer and a host of other players based on the related libraries as well) But worse! If I DO get them to play, I won't have the Digital Rights Management feature!
4. You have to think too much to use Linux. At least in Windows I don't have to think about anything since it does everything for me automatically!!! (Including the installation of malware and infection with virii and the coming deletion of data if I use pirated software. OOOOPS!!!)
5. Linux looks ugly compared to Windows. It has too many visual options that make it look like a two bit whore on Sunset Boulevard. At least in Windows the UI is always grey.
6. The Linux OS is missing a vital part of the OS: MS Office!!! (Never mind that Windows doesn't CUM with Office, only Ballmer does!!!)
7. If I hear one more word about Ubuntu I'm gonna kill!!! Ubuntu is to Windows as your mom is to Jenna Jameson. She might be nice and all, but you wouldn't bed down with her over Jenna Jameson unless you're from West Virginia!!!!
8. Using Linux makes you smell bad, grow suspenders and have to wear a beard and get fat. At least Windows only makes you pudgy, gives you a chin butt and makes you act like the dad from "The Family Guy".
9. Linux can't make the internet any faster!!! At least with Windows, as soon as everyone in the world puts their Windows boxes behind a hardware firewall, worldwide bandwidth will increase 2000 fold.
10. Linux is based on a 30+ year old OS which means it's OLD!!! Windows is based on NT (New technology)!!! If it's new it's GOT to be better unless "new" is spelled GNU in which case it's old an farty smelling!!!!
This has been a reality check for the Slashdot community. We now return you to your regularly schedule idiot ranting...
-"...bad old ideas look confusingly fresh when they are packaged as technology" - Jaron Lanier (Digital Maoism on Edge.o
Ladies and Gentlemen, I present exhibit A of why Linux will never succeed. This sort of arrogant stupidity, where everything is the user's fault. If something doesn't work, it's not that Linux sucks at compatibility with the world, it's that the user sucks for not investing all their time into making it work.
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.