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Jumping To Ubuntu At Work For Non-Linux Geeks
twigles writes "I'm a network engineer, meaning I spend my days dealing with things like selective route advertisements, peering, and traffic engineering; I'm not a Linux admin or developer. About 6 months ago I finally got fed up enough with my experience on Windows XP to jump ship to Ubuntu 8.04, despite not having much Linux experience, particularly on the desktop. Read my ramblings for an engineer's take on taking what can be a pretty intimidating plunge for us Linux noobcakes."
I ain't a fan of Linux but even I can do more than this dufus. FFS, he spent most of his time in XP via Virtualbox. It'd been better if the article had been titled "What you can do on XP running in virtualbox on Ubuntu." Did he actually do anything other than run a standard Ubuntu install and then shove XP on a VM?
I hate to think how shit a Windows admin he is if this is the sum total of his abilities in Linux. As I said, I'm not a fan of Linux by any shot but even with the amount of dabbling I've done, I can do tenfold what this moron can merely by using the brain God gave me accompanied with help from Google search and Ubuntu Forums. Hell, if you're going to do as much in XP as he was when he ran Ubuntu, you might as well stick with XP.
At least I did the fucking job properly and didn't even use WINE.
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My Windows box only takes 15 minutes, with all the crap that runs at startup! Still, a PC with an Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 may boot faster than most.
Here we go again with another example of the word "Ubuntu" being used in the title instead of "Linux", which would be more appropriate. In general, the subject of the article (more of a blog) is about using Linux instead of MS-Windows. It is not specifically about using Ubuntu.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=344745&cid=21176921
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1095787&cid=26502007
If MS-Windows were (generically) a car, and Linux were a motorcycle, it would be like titling an article "Jumping from driving a car to a Kawasaki". This trend can be extremely annoying to fellow Linux users that don't use Ubuntu, and somewhat of an insult to the thousands of people who contribute time and money to non-Ubuntu distros and even Linux and Linux-related FOSS projects in general. There is nothing wrong with using, liking, or even promoting Ubuntu; but give credit where credit is due. Distros are all about 99% the same, the real difference that matters is MS-Windows vs. Linux vs. MacOS....
if you don't like the comments, shut the fuck up, you whining
little bitch.
Way to subvert the university system for your job training program and rent seeking credentialism bullshit. Just like the lawyers did. Shameful.