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Vista Vs. Gutsy Gibbon
ricegf writes in with the account of one Rupert Goodwins writing in ZDNet UK. Goodwins has 7 computers running various versions of Windows and Linux, and explains why he chooses to do most of his work on the Gibbon. "So here's the funny thing. I've used Windows since 1.0. I've lived through the bad times of Windows/386 and ME, and the good times of NT 3.51 and 2K. I know XP if not backwards, then with a degree of familiarity that only middle-aged co-dependents can afford each other... Then how come I'm so much more at home with Ubuntu than Vista? It boils down to one abiding impression: Ubuntu goes out of its way to get out of your way... Vista goes out of its way to be Vista and enforce the Vista way."
Anyway, I connect my HD which had Ubuntu Edgy installed on it, boot up. X complains about the video card so I change "nvidia" to "ati" in xorg.conf, type: startx, and 2 minutes latter I am reading my mail in thunderbird.
The problem with you story is that your average "End LUser" is not going to be able to edit the xorg.conf using vi, and even if they could, probably wouldn't know to change "nvidia" to "ati". The CLI is a bit beyond what most people care to know.
That said, they would have had to work around all the Windows Genuine Advantage crap. Find, download and install every driver the system used, including sound card, chipset, IDE controller, video and so on. However, they would at least have a low res "safe mode" GUI to do it all in. There would be no editing of text files.
Until Ubuntu or whatever distro user can do every single thing in the GUI that they can do through the CLI, Window will have an advantage. MS writes Windows with a GUI in mind from the ground up. Linux is designed to work with or without a GUI. On rare occasion, such as the one you listed here, there will be an absolute need to use the CLI in Linux. Some people just can't handle that.
There is no "I disagree" mod for a reason. Flamebait, Troll, and Overrated are not substitutes.
And that is the problem with Linux. What non-nerd user wants to do or even would know how to do this sort of thing?
Heck, I am a nerd and if I switch my desktop to a Unix OS I am going to just get a Mac.
It's interesting that these Vista stories whip you up into such a frenzy that you can't even be bothered to pretend you're twitter's "fan" anymore.
Web2.0: I love when people Flickr my cuil and digg my boingboing until my google is reddit and I start to yahoo
> Oh dear, how hard is it to type "sudo apt-get install xxxxxx" ?
sudo apt-get-install support-spdif-and-line-out-at-the-same-time
sudo apt-get-install make-the-fucking-wireless-drivers-work
yeah, didn't work for me either.
Done with slashdot, done with nerds, getting a life.
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you SLASHDOT fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a HOOKER (a HARDBODY w/TIGHT ASS for RAMming) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to BLOW ME on the hard dick. 20 minutes. At home, on my ancient WIFE running HER MOUTH, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this SLUT, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that. In addition, during this SEMEN transfer, MYDICK will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even HER HAND is straining to keep up as I type this. I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various BITCHES, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a WHORE that has run faster than its WIFE counterpart, despite the WHORE's same architecture. My WIFE with 200 POUNDS of ram runs faster than this SLUT machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that PROSTITUTE is a superior operating system. SEX lovers, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use THIS PENIS SHEATH over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
Ironically, the word ironically is often used incorrectly.
You see what you want to see.
Major vendors would have to offer choices for that to be true. They don't, as the US Government once observed, because of the M$ monopoly. Quit pretending people have choices and get a chance to make comparisons.
Short of actually installing and using an OS, you have YouTube and opinion pieces from trade magazines. With M$'s advertising budget, the trade mags are just a little slanted in their coverage. Not even Slashdot cares about people's software freedom.
Everybody should use the system they like and stop preaching and advocating.
If you don't like Ubuntu or comparison articles and opinions one way or the other, you should go find an article you like and comment there. You might actually know something about the subject and look less like a hypocrite who's trying to preach atheism in a church. Freedom is worth advocating and I'm going to continue to tell people who read comparison articles that Windows will never do what users want because it's not free.
DMCA, Hollings, Palladium. What might have sounded like paranoia is now common sense.
How many of these articles are we going to get?
Not as many as all the Vista propaganda articles I hope. Though that would balance things out.
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Marketing talk is not just cheap, it has negative value. Free speech can be compromised just as much by too much noise as too little signal.
No Linux distribution to date passes the 3 most important tests of an OS:
1: Once installed my wireless network card can connect to my AES encrypted network
2: I can install my favorite game X on it and start playing with equal performance when game X runs under windows. (Currently Team Fortress 2)
3: I can sit my mother down in front of the machine and she can import a scanned picture, resize it, and send it via email to my sister.
These 3 have been accomplished under Windows XP and sadly, Vista. To date OpenSuse, Redhat, Ubuntu, or Gentoo has passed ANY of those 3.
Technology is meaningless in of itself. Technology is used to accomplish a goal. Linux's superior technology is irrelivant to a typical end user. They want to get something done on Linux. It's the same debate that has been going on since Quick and Dirt Operating System was born and regardless of the next round of the OS wars it's really just another Cola war.
-=[ Who Is John Galt? ]=-
...Visual Studio 8. I have yet to see something even remotely comparable for C++ development. I would rarely boot in Windows if I had a such a program for Linux.