There's a bunch of them but I know you're looking for "one ring to rule them all". There's no such thing -- yet, simply because the demand is low. Mind you that I'm differing between demand and request. Everybody using Linux would love to have a big central resource, but nobody demands it -- yet. It will come though. Meanwhile there are several other decent to good resources you can browse. Luckily there aren't that many drivers one needs to check for.
Mind you, I have to help out my Windows-using friends as well:(
You didn't hear? The best IT friend excuse was formed, it goes by: "I'm sorry man, I never learned Vista so I can't help you.:(". Seriously though it's the best excuse I've found for bailing out of those people-taking-advantage-of-your-juicy-brain situations.
Back to the topic though. I understand your argument about scattered and misleading information, but this is a self solving problem caused by the small magnitude of Linux. As Linux grows, so will this problem shrink. However there are still many detailed and very helpful resources for your distro, if you're using any major distro. My favourite being gentoo wiki. Apart from you have the regular Ubuntu resources, launchpad, ubuntuforums etc. In addition to this you have great independent resources such as linuxquestions.org
I like to use Ubuntu a lot, as you might notice, in my examples. Not because it's "the master distro", not at all actually. But it's unique in a way where "automagic" is a key word. This is what the common user wants, and we will see more ubuntu-like distros coming as time goes. For now I support Ubuntu as much as I support FOSS simply because it's a milestone in FOSS development that has already made it to history, any person whom doesn't recognize that fact is lying to himself. You don't have to promote it, you don't have to use it, you don't even have to like it, but you should never lie about what it is.
Thank you for proving my point. While you are using Windows you have little knowledge of how important driver support is, you take it for granted, just like my sound server example. You don't know that it's important to check for supported hardware because whatever you stick inside your PC has been supported so far.
You're saying that you're about to change PC equipment. Before you decide what you want google around for those pieces of hardware and make sure there are stable Linux drivers that support them. It doesn't necessarily need to be old equipment so don't sweat it just yet. Do this and I promise you that you will have the most painless OS installation you've ever experienced, no exaduration. Your initial thought might be "how annoying", but then again if you had low level knowledge (and wanted Linux) you'd probably end up buying a complete setup from a vendor that supplies Linux support, but you're not. If you were an advanced user you'd find no problem in doing this quick research. If however you're the middle person with, let's call it phantom knowledge, you'd try to do what the advanced guy is doing with the ambitions of the low level guy, getting you absolutely nowhere. The only way of learning this is by doing, so do yourself a favor and set yourself on the path of becoming an advanced user, it really doesn't hurt.
As I said, if you're really up for it the only thing you need to do is check for Linux support for the hardware you're going to buy, the same way as you've been ignoring Mac products due to incompability (or other more obvious issues not mentioned).
Oh and about "laziness". You can disagree with me all you want, and you probably should, but I've seen and helped so many people with similar/related problems and my conclusion is, even they'd disagree as well, that they've simply been lazy. They know google, they know english, they have fingers, and most importantly they have a question. Don't tell me that's not being lazy.:)
I did, and I'm not attacking you so chill. I'm merely pointing out that we shouldn't care if Microsoft is losing or "GAINING" anything, but instead focusing on the gain for FOSS.:)
It's not default, but it's possible, and if it's used as such it's more important than the domain admins. By the way, did you try google? I don't think you did.
This is getting fucking tiresome. At first I gave this argument (user friendliness) some thought, of course Linux is different so it has to be either easier or more difficult, no two OSs are exactly equal. Then after hearing this argument about a thousand times between showing everybody from coworkers to friends to my own mother, whom isn't the youngest hen in the pen to put it gently, how to use Ubuntu I come to realise that most of the times it's because you are so fucking lazy. In my experience most people reject it simply because it's different, and different is scary, it's unknown. When my mother asks me for help I refuse to help her, instead I tell her "let's pretent that you have psychic powers and with that you just 'know' where to look for the answer", while I survey. Most times she, being 60+, finds whatever she's looking for. For example if she would ask me how to change the layout of the document she's working with in OOo I'd tell her, "What would be the 'category' of this action? Would it fit more into e.g. changing views or handling files or editing the contents?". Naturally where I'm going with this is to show her that she doesn't need to be scared, she can, with some common sense and an eager index finger, check for it in the logical places she can imagine.
In my experience it's not so difficult to teach a person with low Windows knowledge to do the same fundamental actions in another OS, Ubuntu being my preferred alternative for these. The tasks these people do are virtually the same. What is difficult is to teach the thick headed thinks-he-knows-his-computer guy, that has learned some semi advanced tweaking and configuring in Windows, to start "all over". To me it's clear, these people push it away not because they can't, but because they thought they could and when they realise that Windows has tought them very little (since little hacking is necessary) about general OS structure and configuration. I'm saying this because the first time I really forced myself to give Linux a chance I started off, on recommendation from friends using Linux, with Slackware. As a thick headed thought-I-knew-my-computer I'd tell you one thing: I was fucking lost. This failed, that failed -- and I can tell you that from a Windows users perspective the word "sound server" was very confusing. But as I moved further and further away from the Windows concept (what I thought was how an OS was built) I began learning how OSs function in reality. Of course the hardware resources of your soundcard may only be accessable by one application, which is why you need a sound server to distribute/gather/tunnel the stream, but Windows never even hinted this very fundamental fact about hardware/software interaction. Also I have to add that this was many years ago and long before Mark Shuttleworth first spoke the word Ubuntu, nowadays the sound server example might be nullified by Ubuntu as well. But it wouldn't matter, my point is that you find it difficult because you find it difficult, not because it is difficult, if you understand what I mean. So you see there are 3 types of users, the one that knows, the one that doesn't know and last and worst the one that thinks he knows, don't be the latter, nobody likes this guy.
Period. Seriously now, the article was asking a retarded question (why people strangely enough choose to have global communication for a couple of horribly boring hours over a shitty meal not even worth the plastic plate it comes in), the parent answered and there's nothing more to it, except punching the author in the face for acting surprised.
What are you looking for here? A "go ahead" from the FOSS society to keep using Windows? In that case here it is:
We don't give a shit.
Seriously though, you dug yourself deep into a dependency hell so what do you expect? There are many things that I believe would be fun but I reconsider due to the obvious negative compromises. I can list a few of them for you:
Install Windows only games, I don't want anything to do with Microsofts products. Take a months salary and visit closest casino, I have mouths to feed, including my very own. Shoot heroin, besides the addiction and declining of health there's a risk of overdosage, thus instant death.
So you see, just because something is available it doesn't mean you should just go ahead and do it. Here's a good tip you can carry on during the remainder of your life: with any decision you make always consider the negative effects first. That way you won't end up in such a situation as the one you've found youself currently in. And no, playing those silly games was never an inevitable must, even though it might seem like that after getting addicted to them.
When Bono said "fucking brilliant" at the Golden Globes, it was clear to any reasonable person that he meant the word as an adjective to brilliant, not as a sexual reference.
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Really?
Ignore the first sentence, it's an old number as you can see when you look at the country specific batalions.
Thank god I don't live in the EU.
Yes let's all thank god you don't.
Link or it didn't happen.
Luckily only twice, or it would have been STRIKE OUT! :)
Did Guy sue the living shit out of the doctor?
I'm not even reading your post. Hell I'm not even reading what I'm writing.
Last I heard he was down at the DMV applying for a job as a traffic light. Resourceful creatures those glowing monkeys.
Oh my god the UK recorded something and it leaked! Who could have ever imagined this possible outcome!?
I'm thinking: fine you wanted to grill them to make sure they weren't up to something fishy. But why record it!? What difference would that make!?
There's a bunch of them but I know you're looking for "one ring to rule them all". There's no such thing -- yet, simply because the demand is low. Mind you that I'm differing between demand and request. Everybody using Linux would love to have a big central resource, but nobody demands it -- yet. It will come though. Meanwhile there are several other decent to good resources you can browse. Luckily there aren't that many drivers one needs to check for.
Mind you, I have to help out my Windows-using friends as well :(
You didn't hear? The best IT friend excuse was formed, it goes by: "I'm sorry man, I never learned Vista so I can't help you. :(". Seriously though it's the best excuse I've found for bailing out of those people-taking-advantage-of-your-juicy-brain situations.
Back to the topic though. I understand your argument about scattered and misleading information, but this is a self solving problem caused by the small magnitude of Linux. As Linux grows, so will this problem shrink. However there are still many detailed and very helpful resources for your distro, if you're using any major distro. My favourite being gentoo wiki. Apart from you have the regular Ubuntu resources, launchpad, ubuntuforums etc. In addition to this you have great independent resources such as linuxquestions.org
I like to use Ubuntu a lot, as you might notice, in my examples. Not because it's "the master distro", not at all actually. But it's unique in a way where "automagic" is a key word. This is what the common user wants, and we will see more ubuntu-like distros coming as time goes. For now I support Ubuntu as much as I support FOSS simply because it's a milestone in FOSS development that has already made it to history, any person whom doesn't recognize that fact is lying to himself. You don't have to promote it, you don't have to use it, you don't even have to like it, but you should never lie about what it is.
Thank you for proving my point. While you are using Windows you have little knowledge of how important driver support is, you take it for granted, just like my sound server example. You don't know that it's important to check for supported hardware because whatever you stick inside your PC has been supported so far.
:)
You're saying that you're about to change PC equipment. Before you decide what you want google around for those pieces of hardware and make sure there are stable Linux drivers that support them. It doesn't necessarily need to be old equipment so don't sweat it just yet. Do this and I promise you that you will have the most painless OS installation you've ever experienced, no exaduration. Your initial thought might be "how annoying", but then again if you had low level knowledge (and wanted Linux) you'd probably end up buying a complete setup from a vendor that supplies Linux support, but you're not. If you were an advanced user you'd find no problem in doing this quick research. If however you're the middle person with, let's call it phantom knowledge, you'd try to do what the advanced guy is doing with the ambitions of the low level guy, getting you absolutely nowhere. The only way of learning this is by doing, so do yourself a favor and set yourself on the path of becoming an advanced user, it really doesn't hurt.
As I said, if you're really up for it the only thing you need to do is check for Linux support for the hardware you're going to buy, the same way as you've been ignoring Mac products due to incompability (or other more obvious issues not mentioned).
Oh and about "laziness". You can disagree with me all you want, and you probably should, but I've seen and helped so many people with similar/related problems and my conclusion is, even they'd disagree as well, that they've simply been lazy. They know google, they know english, they have fingers, and most importantly they have a question. Don't tell me that's not being lazy.
I did, and I'm not attacking you so chill. I'm merely pointing out that we shouldn't care if Microsoft is losing or "GAINING" anything, but instead focusing on the gain for FOSS. :)
It's not default, but it's possible, and if it's used as such it's more important than the domain admins. By the way, did you try google? I don't think you did.
FYI we don't care about Microsofts loss, we only care about the gain of FOSS. :)
This is getting fucking tiresome. At first I gave this argument (user friendliness) some thought, of course Linux is different so it has to be either easier or more difficult, no two OSs are exactly equal. Then after hearing this argument about a thousand times between showing everybody from coworkers to friends to my own mother, whom isn't the youngest hen in the pen to put it gently, how to use Ubuntu I come to realise that most of the times it's because you are so fucking lazy. In my experience most people reject it simply because it's different, and different is scary, it's unknown. When my mother asks me for help I refuse to help her, instead I tell her "let's pretent that you have psychic powers and with that you just 'know' where to look for the answer", while I survey. Most times she, being 60+, finds whatever she's looking for. For example if she would ask me how to change the layout of the document she's working with in OOo I'd tell her, "What would be the 'category' of this action? Would it fit more into e.g. changing views or handling files or editing the contents?". Naturally where I'm going with this is to show her that she doesn't need to be scared, she can, with some common sense and an eager index finger, check for it in the logical places she can imagine.
In my experience it's not so difficult to teach a person with low Windows knowledge to do the same fundamental actions in another OS, Ubuntu being my preferred alternative for these. The tasks these people do are virtually the same. What is difficult is to teach the thick headed thinks-he-knows-his-computer guy, that has learned some semi advanced tweaking and configuring in Windows, to start "all over". To me it's clear, these people push it away not because they can't, but because they thought they could and when they realise that Windows has tought them very little (since little hacking is necessary) about general OS structure and configuration. I'm saying this because the first time I really forced myself to give Linux a chance I started off, on recommendation from friends using Linux, with Slackware. As a thick headed thought-I-knew-my-computer I'd tell you one thing: I was fucking lost. This failed, that failed -- and I can tell you that from a Windows users perspective the word "sound server" was very confusing. But as I moved further and further away from the Windows concept (what I thought was how an OS was built) I began learning how OSs function in reality. Of course the hardware resources of your soundcard may only be accessable by one application, which is why you need a sound server to distribute/gather/tunnel the stream, but Windows never even hinted this very fundamental fact about hardware/software interaction. Also I have to add that this was many years ago and long before Mark Shuttleworth first spoke the word Ubuntu, nowadays the sound server example might be nullified by Ubuntu as well. But it wouldn't matter, my point is that you find it difficult because you find it difficult, not because it is difficult, if you understand what I mean. So you see there are 3 types of users, the one that knows, the one that doesn't know and last and worst the one that thinks he knows, don't be the latter, nobody likes this guy.
Iron Maiden is not heavy metal.
Here we run mainly Windows anyway, the only password that is really important to keep safe is the domain administrator password.
Nope, local admin password on the PDC is far more important than domain admin.
"It's about the economic well-being of the United States."
It's about my stock options damn it!
Your theory fails, it's called Greenwich Mean Time. The prophecy says we have to choose Greenwich!
Period. Seriously now, the article was asking a retarded question (why people strangely enough choose to have global communication for a couple of horribly boring hours over a shitty meal not even worth the plastic plate it comes in), the parent answered and there's nothing more to it, except punching the author in the face for acting surprised.
What are you looking for here? A "go ahead" from the FOSS society to keep using Windows? In that case here it is:
We don't give a shit.
Seriously though, you dug yourself deep into a dependency hell so what do you expect? There are many things that I believe would be fun but I reconsider due to the obvious negative compromises. I can list a few of them for you:
Install Windows only games, I don't want anything to do with Microsofts products.
Take a months salary and visit closest casino, I have mouths to feed, including my very own.
Shoot heroin, besides the addiction and declining of health there's a risk of overdosage, thus instant death.
So you see, just because something is available it doesn't mean you should just go ahead and do it. Here's a good tip you can carry on during the remainder of your life: with any decision you make always consider the negative effects first. That way you won't end up in such a situation as the one you've found youself currently in. And no, playing those silly games was never an inevitable must, even though it might seem like that after getting addicted to them.
When Bono said "fucking brilliant" at the Golden Globes, it was clear to any reasonable person that he meant the word as an adjective to brilliant, not as a sexual reference.
Maybe he just likes to watch fireflies do it.
I'm wondering what percentile of the US population you represented to get the "fan fucking" + "elastic" conclusion.
The majority.
Oh no I didn't! *moves neck spasticly back and forth Ricki Lake style*
That's why everybody should live in Greenwich.