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After Ubuntu, Windows Looks Increasingly Bad

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the put-up-yer-dukes dept.

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.'"

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  1. Differing Opinion by Jalwin · · Score: 1, Troll

    Linux is about as easy to use for new users as a helicopter is to operate. I'm using Ubuntu at work atm and I am a long-time Windows user. I hate having to do things through the terminal and VI is horrible compared to the advanced GUI editors I am used to. Linux still has a long ways to go before it is easy enough to use for the masses (ie you don't have to memorize a lot of crap or mess around in a terminal to do anything). Ubuntu is a step forward though, I've seen older Linux iterations that make me want to cry :O.

    1. Re:Differing Opinion by Night+Goat · · Score: 0, Troll

      I've been using Unix for ten years now and I'm still not 100% sure what the /etc directory's for. It seems like different applications use it for different things.

  2. Re:189 comments by WillAffleckUW · · Score: 0, Troll

    mod parent Troll down

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  3. I'm very unimpressed with U by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    "Dumbshit"

    Dumbshit? You have all those wonderful insults to choose from and the best you could come up with is "Dumbshit"?

    If you're going to troll, at least try to do a good job of it. "Dumbshit" doesn't even have a good sound, Like "cocksucker" or "asshat". I mean, god damn guy, the least you could do is put some effort into it.

    Now go away slut (see simple, visceral, very powerful, not like "dumbshit")