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Linux Needs More Haters
Corrupt brings us a ZDNet column by Jeremy Allison, who says Linux could benefit from more "tough love" in order to improve its functionality and popularity. Excerpting:
"As Elie Wiesel said, 'the opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference.' LinuxHater really doesn't hate Linux, despite the name. No one takes that much time to point out flaws in a product that they completely loathe and despise. The complaints are really cries of frustration with a system that just doesn't quite do what is desired (albeit well disguised). A friend pointed out to me that the best way to parse LinuxHaters blog is to treat it as a series of bug reports. A perl script could probably parse out the useful information from them and log them as technical bug reports to the projects LinuxHater is writing about. Deep down, I believe LinuxHater really loves Linux, and wants it to succeed."
FUCK LINUX!
/me runs
I'm a rabbit startled by the headlights of life
A bug is a broken promise or a lie! You tell me the software will do $foo, but when I try it it doesn't do $foo. If you as a developer are ok with that then you have no honour. If you want to take credit for the stuff that works, you should be man enough to take responsibility for the stuff that's broken.
Typical responses to bug complaints are usually as follows:
1. Fix it yourself.
2.Pay someone to fix it for you.
3.How dare you complain about something you're getting for free.
4.We are all busy fixing more important bugs.
5.Here is a workaround.
6.If you hate Linux so much you should go back to using Micro$oft.
it just chooses its friends wisely.
And this is the problem Linux has, the attitude that, "It's not too complex, you're too stupid."
I don't understand this continued fallacy of the "Linux distribution". They've differentiated themselves far too much to still be looked at as simple customizations of the same OS.
They're _different operating systems_. The fact that they share a lot of common code doesn't change that. From a user perspective, they should simply be viewed as, at most, individual members of the Unix/POSIX-like family.
The common code should be of interest primarily to developers and sysadmins, in that it means they can use mostly-common APIs and transfer knowledge of some of the inner workings across OSs.
This is what makes it funny to me every time someone talks about installing software that isn't packaged for their "distribution". Do you whine about how hard it is to install an OS X application on Windows or vice-versa?
Go back to Windows or buy a Mac and leave the rest of us the fuck alone. You're all set.
Hey, I finally got my first freak! Took you long enough!
I'd install Linux and try it out, but I'm sure as hell not putting it on my desktop where I keep all my valuable data, and my portable happens to be a tablet which has approximately 0 Linux support. I still find it dubious that:
1) Linux distros can switch resolution on-the-fly without rebooting, when a couple years ago this would have been entirely unheard of. X11 hasn't changed that much.
2) There's a *keyboard shortcut* for it. WTF? Is this something people need to do every 10 minutes or something?
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