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After Ubuntu, Windows Looks Increasingly Bad
mrcgran writes "Sys-Con has a look at some advantages of using Ubuntu over Windows. 'My recent switch to a single-boot Ubuntu setup on my Thinkpad T60 simply floors me on a regular basis. Most recently it's had to do with the experience of maintaining the software. Fresh from a very long Windows 2000 experience and a four-month Windows XP experience along with a long-time Linux sys admin role puts me in a great position to assess Ubuntu. Three prior attempts over the years at using Linux as my daily desktop OS had me primed for failure. Well, Ubuntu takes Linux where I've long hoped it would go — easy to use, reliable, dependable, great applications too but more on that later. It has some elegance to it — bet you never heard that about a Linux desktop before.'"
Linux better than Windows for sysadmin tasks!
News at 11.
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Is that a new window cleaner?
If you typed all that by yourself I'm impressed, especially since you wrote it standing up (I hear you're chair-hostile) and I don't care what anybody says about monkeys and typewriters.
It may be a bit too easy in some distributions. I have actually, accidentally installed Linux before. It wasn't a problem but I put in the cd, left for a moment and came back 'ready to get started' and it was over.
OMG facts!
what is this "popup" you speak of?
They call me the wookie man, I guess that's what I am
If you're going to be a troll, at least try to be creative.
I'm sick of all these templatized flamebaits:
1. start with lame attempt at reverse psychology disclaimer.
2. Insert singular bad experience with Linux.
3. Omit all relevant detail so you won't be embarassed when others point out the real source of the problems you were complaining.
4. Recycle old complaints about Linux. Choose from the following:
a) can't install hardware
b) my device Blah doesn't work
c) user interface is ugly
d) there aren't any games
e) my software Blah doesn't work
f) boot time is slow
5. Repeat lame reverse psychology blurb in the beginning.
So, do you know the other eight people that bought a PS3?
My son installed Ubuntu 5.10 just before his third birthday. I had him do it just as an experiment. I wanted to see if how easy it was to install was just my imagination or not. No, it was not. He was not able to get through a Windows install on his own right after that. The reason was that he could not read yet. Of course, with Ubuntu, you don't even have to know how to read to get up and running.
Ubuntu, so easy a 2 year old can install it.
Linux expert gives linux positive review and shuns windows on a linux site, as reported by linux-associated news site. Story at 8!
"The need to build the internet comes from something inside us, something programmed... something we can't resist."
Errm. Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't that be tantamount to collaborating with the enemy?
OK guys. Mod me flaimbait! Let's get it over with...
A page on "linux.sys-con.com" finds Linux superior to Windows! Pardon me while I climb back onto the chair I just fell out of.
Bender: Behold: the Internet!
Fry: My God. It's full of ads!
Based on my visit to that site, I can only assume that the developer studied at the Myspace College of Web Design.
-- Using the preview button since 2005
Actually, Not Being Stupid (TM) is a Microsoft trademark, we FOSS people prefer Not Being Worried (TM).
How can you tell an extroverted Linux user?
He looks at YOUR shoes while talking to you.
Just another "Cubible(sic) Joe" 2 17 3061
OMG you just pinged the entire Internet!
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
you'll have to post a screen shot... I'm using firefox on fedora with ad block, filterset-G, no script, no flash installed... I didn't see a giant pop-up.
*''I can't believe it's not a hyperlink.''
OMG you just pinged the entire Internet!
Poor internet. I'll reboot it, may fix it.
Jesus! Look, I'm just going out on a limb here, but I'm going to assume that your son will have acne and a completely exaggerated fear/awe of women by 5.
How about the subtracts?
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"
- Charles Darwin
Why should I , it's my laptop not hers. I hate extra clutter , that is why I use linux. I don't have to see 9000 menu entries for the crap that I installed ;)
This package Does Not Contain a Winner
OMGzorz!!!! A Slashdot Lunix d00d prefers using Ubunghole over using Windows!!! Call Ted Koppel!!! This is amazing, shocking, earth-shattering news!!
I will try to wait patiently for the next amazing Slashdot revelation, like perhaps maybe a report that someone here doesn't actually LIKE Microsoft!!! That would be unbelievable!!!
Reformat and reinstall the internet.
Engineering is the art of compromise.
it's not full-proof.
Is it empty-proof, then?
In Soviet Russia, Jesus asks: "What Would You Do?"