Looking at the numbers, 72,000 out of about 600,000 are using Linux. That's a much higher percentage than the general populace. And all of them "can't complete even simple tasks"?
It does happen with open source software, as with any software, and open source advocates don't need to apologize for it. What they need to do is fix it when it's brought to their attention --- oh, wait, they already did that.
Horrible advice? More like a horrible post from an AC.
Phishing is one of the biggest security concerns and what system you're on has no impact on its ability to damage your personal files.
What are you talking about? How does phishing damage the personal files on your computer? Agreed, phishing is system independent, but it tricks you into revealing information, and doesn't attack your file system.
Sure, it's harder to gain admin rights on a Linux system than Windows, but no home users care about that. A screwed up OS is the easiest thing to fix, 'just' reinstall it. The users' data files are what's important and they are equally exposed on all systems unless you've taken the steps to setup advanced security measures which no home users do.
"Just" reinstall Windows, right. And that type of user likely doesn't have a backup, so what then? And user data files are NOT equally exposed on all systems.
No home user cares if their computers are part of a bot net, they still function fine for them.
Come to think of it, I can see why you post as an AC; you don't want to embarrass yourself.
So what you need to offer is some disruptive innovation, some great feature that draws people to Linux, something so good that they would be willing to temporarily forgo the lack of applications
Although I'm a rabid Linux fan I have to say that your post made a lot of sense. But I'd add to the above, in view of Windows 10 integrated spyware, "Or Windows has to become so bad that people will be driven away."
the rate we purchase new phones, when the ones we have already are more than adequate, is a bigger travesty. so the note 7 had an accelerated eol, i think if people should be more concerned with the motto we learned when we were young, reduce/reuse/recycle, and actually do that instead of "oh new shiny, must get" fucking people
Now there's the answer, it seems: Use the things longer. You don't need a new phone every year. Oooh... iPhone 7.... gotta have it.... until the iPhone 8 comes out 12 months later.
Keep them until they wear out. Yes, there's an issue with limited recharging cycles... but replaceable batteries should be the norm. Yes, there's an issue with software updates.... vendors need to be more responsible about that.
Millenials ar ethe hardest working most selfless generation ever put on earth.
As pointed out somewhere above, oldsters have been complaining about "these kids today" for millennia. But equally so and for equally long, kids have regarded oldsters as no better than idiots. "Ayn chadash tachat hashemesh" --- there is nothing new under the sun.
Talmudic discourse recognizes, in varying ways, indeterminate gender, incapacity to reproduce, etc. I would have to review to be sure but I believe there is a category for someone born with physical characteristics of both genders.
But all of you miss my point.
Someone can be straight, gay, male, female, trans, identify with a certain gender, and all the variations that there may be. They all deserve to be treated with the respect and dignity due any human being. They deserve to be free from discrimination and intimidation. I never intended to imply anything else, and in my personal life I try very hard to live by these principles.
None of this negates biology. We are nearly all of us born either male or female. Yes, we can change that. Yes, we can identify differently or have different orientations. And none of this should be a problem.
YOU may never say sh*t like that, but do you stand up when others do?
As a matter of fact, I do.
Are you not aware that many important allies in the world are directed by a female leader?
There have been great and honorable female leaders. Golda Meir, for instance. Margaret Thatcher, even if you didn't agree with her politics. And many others. (Hillary won't be one of them but that's a different discussion.)
I realize I may be offending you by saying this, but there are two genders. Honestly, there are. Reality seems to ignore political correctness at times.
Critics of literature and the guys who nominate books for literary awards probably don't read a lot of SF either
They also, as far as I can tell, generally don't have much of a clue about science and math either. This works into why they rave over Jonathan Franzen publishing a novel every ten years or so and praising it to the heavens, rather than even considering sci-fi which may have concepts well beyond the critics' understanding.
I remember once seeing a complaint from an author about the New York Times weekly book review section, to the effect: "The New York Times likes young women poets who killed themselves."
who either MUST use MS products OR *think* they have to use MS products.. Protip: You DON'T....
I'm as big a Linux fan as anyone, and use it for everything, but I've come around to the realization that some people do have to use Windows. Some of them are given no choice in the workplace. Others have some sort of vertical app or new game that just can't be replicated, won't run on Wine, etc. And there are some who like Windows and simply choose to run it.
I've said this before, however: I think that in many of the cases where people think they have no choice, they actually do, but they don't want to, won't, or simply don't have time to learn new things. That is, the number of cases in which functionality can't be adequately reproduced on Linux is far fewer than MS advocates might tell you. But that isn't to say the number is zero, either.
For me, decent OCR was the last hurdle, and Linux has that now, and nearly all of the Windows games I'm interested in run fine with Wine (I'm admittedly not a cutting edge gamer). I do have a Windows 8.1 partition but I'm asking myself why I keep it.
GNUS apparently dates to 1988, and as you mention, MH goes back even earlier.
Trying to repackage very old ideas as the latest thing is a marketing ploy. Still, I thank AOL for all those free coasters they sent me in the mail back when.
Climate change has become a political cause. That's both good and bad.
It's bad because politics and political agendas inevitably overshadow science, and causes often don't tolerate opposition.
It's good because if something needs to be done to stop/prevent damage to the ecosphere, it can only happen through political action. Scientists aren't going to, on their own, be able to effect, say, reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
In a rational world the scientific evidence would be acted upon by politicians in an objective manner, following the dictates of the evidence.
But I hardly need to point out that it isn't a rational world.
I remember Aurora, it was great, and you can still get versions of it online. But I've been hard over on Emacs for years now. It does everything from managing my schedule to providing a powerful desktop math engine, and if I really wish, I can even edit text with it.
I can see how you read that into my comment, so perhaps I should have been more clear. I didn't distinguish between "choose to use" and "have to use" but in retrospect of course I see they're different things.
So let's just say if you want or need to use Windows (or whatever the case may be), then indeed that's consistent with the original comment about using the right tool for the job, where "right" may derive from absolute necessity on down through merely preference or familiarity.
In other words, while I'm (as I said) a big Linux fan, I don't pretend that it solves every problem and is right for everyone and everything.
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Looking at the numbers, 72,000 out of about 600,000 are using Linux. That's a much higher percentage than the general populace. And all of them "can't complete even simple tasks"?
It does happen with open source software, as with any software, and open source advocates don't need to apologize for it. What they need to do is fix it when it's brought to their attention --- oh, wait, they already did that.
Maybe the people who forked out all that cash are just trying really hard to convince themselves they got something better than the cheaper options
(Glances over at iPhone 7 people ...)
Horrible advice? More like a horrible post from an AC.
Phishing is one of the biggest security concerns and what system you're on has no impact on its ability to damage your personal files.
What are you talking about? How does phishing damage the personal files on your computer? Agreed, phishing is system independent, but it tricks you into revealing information, and doesn't attack your file system.
Sure, it's harder to gain admin rights on a Linux system than Windows, but no home users care about that. A screwed up OS is the easiest thing to fix, 'just' reinstall it. The users' data files are what's important and they are equally exposed on all systems unless you've taken the steps to setup advanced security measures which no home users do.
"Just" reinstall Windows, right. And that type of user likely doesn't have a backup, so what then? And user data files are NOT equally exposed on all systems.
No home user cares if their computers are part of a bot net, they still function fine for them.
Come to think of it, I can see why you post as an AC; you don't want to embarrass yourself.
So what you need to offer is some disruptive innovation, some great feature that draws people to Linux, something so good that they would be willing to temporarily forgo the lack of applications
Although I'm a rabid Linux fan I have to say that your post made a lot of sense. But I'd add to the above, in view of Windows 10 integrated spyware, "Or Windows has to become so bad that people will be driven away."
What will Apple remove next? The keyboard and the screen?
Maybe they can just remove everything. Now that would be a MacBook "Air".
the rate we purchase new phones, when the ones we have already are more than adequate, is a bigger travesty. so the note 7 had an accelerated eol, i think if people should be more concerned with the motto we learned when we were young, reduce/reuse/recycle, and actually do that instead of "oh new shiny, must get" fucking people
Now there's the answer, it seems: Use the things longer. You don't need a new phone every year. Oooh ... iPhone 7 .... gotta have it .... until the iPhone 8 comes out 12 months later.
Keep them until they wear out. Yes, there's an issue with limited recharging cycles ... but replaceable batteries should be the norm. Yes, there's an issue with software updates .... vendors need to be more responsible about that.
Millenials ar ethe hardest working most selfless generation ever put on earth.
As pointed out somewhere above, oldsters have been complaining about "these kids today" for millennia. But equally so and for equally long, kids have regarded oldsters as no better than idiots. "Ayn chadash tachat hashemesh" --- there is nothing new under the sun.
Talmudic discourse recognizes, in varying ways, indeterminate gender, incapacity to reproduce, etc. I would have to review to be sure but I believe there is a category for someone born with physical characteristics of both genders.
But all of you miss my point.
Someone can be straight, gay, male, female, trans, identify with a certain gender, and all the variations that there may be. They all deserve to be treated with the respect and dignity due any human being. They deserve to be free from discrimination and intimidation. I never intended to imply anything else, and in my personal life I try very hard to live by these principles.
None of this negates biology. We are nearly all of us born either male or female. Yes, we can change that. Yes, we can identify differently or have different orientations. And none of this should be a problem.
Yeah, some men have no sense of humor, like being doormats
Since when is not speaking in denigrating terms about women, or putting up with other men doing so, being a doormat? I'd say it's quite the opposite.
YOU may never say sh*t like that, but do you stand up when others do?
As a matter of fact, I do.
Are you not aware that many important allies in the world are directed by a female leader?
There have been great and honorable female leaders. Golda Meir, for instance. Margaret Thatcher, even if you didn't agree with her politics. And many others. (Hillary won't be one of them but that's a different discussion.)
I realize I may be offending you by saying this, but there are two genders. Honestly, there are. Reality seems to ignore political correctness at times.
Critics of literature and the guys who nominate books for literary awards probably don't read a lot of SF either
They also, as far as I can tell, generally don't have much of a clue about science and math either. This works into why they rave over Jonathan Franzen publishing a novel every ten years or so and praising it to the heavens, rather than even considering sci-fi which may have concepts well beyond the critics' understanding.
I remember once seeing a complaint from an author about the New York Times weekly book review section, to the effect: "The New York Times likes young women poets who killed themselves."
All men participate in raunchy joking
Speak for yourself. All men do not do this. The fact that some do can't be generalized to 100% of men.
Women are indeed perfectly capable of standing up for themselves.
The problem is that if women are being denigrated, abused, mistreated, etc., and men just stand by ... don't they become part of the problem?
Real men don't put up with other men abusing women. This is not at all the same thing as acting like the "protector" of women.
Try living in Hawai`i, where Amazon Prime gets you free shipping that usually takes about two WEEKS. And still costs $99.
Did he also invent global warming?
who either MUST use MS products OR *think* they have to use MS products.. Protip: You DON'T....
I'm as big a Linux fan as anyone, and use it for everything, but I've come around to the realization that some people do have to use Windows. Some of them are given no choice in the workplace. Others have some sort of vertical app or new game that just can't be replicated, won't run on Wine, etc. And there are some who like Windows and simply choose to run it.
I've said this before, however: I think that in many of the cases where people think they have no choice, they actually do, but they don't want to, won't, or simply don't have time to learn new things. That is, the number of cases in which functionality can't be adequately reproduced on Linux is far fewer than MS advocates might tell you. But that isn't to say the number is zero, either.
For me, decent OCR was the last hurdle, and Linux has that now, and nearly all of the Windows games I'm interested in run fine with Wine (I'm admittedly not a cutting edge gamer). I do have a Windows 8.1 partition but I'm asking myself why I keep it.
GNUS apparently dates to 1988, and as you mention, MH goes back even earlier.
Trying to repackage very old ideas as the latest thing is a marketing ploy. Still, I thank AOL for all those free coasters they sent me in the mail back when.
I'm in line with your derivative meaning.
You've gone off on a tangent. It's polarizing. Stop it. Right now.
You're making me tensor and tensor.
Climate change has become a political cause. That's both good and bad.
It's bad because politics and political agendas inevitably overshadow science, and causes often don't tolerate opposition.
It's good because if something needs to be done to stop/prevent damage to the ecosphere, it can only happen through political action. Scientists aren't going to, on their own, be able to effect, say, reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
In a rational world the scientific evidence would be acted upon by politicians in an objective manner, following the dictates of the evidence.
But I hardly need to point out that it isn't a rational world.
I remember Aurora, it was great, and you can still get versions of it online. But I've been hard over on Emacs for years now. It does everything from managing my schedule to providing a powerful desktop math engine, and if I really wish, I can even edit text with it.
I can see how you read that into my comment, so perhaps I should have been more clear. I didn't distinguish between "choose to use" and "have to use" but in retrospect of course I see they're different things.
So let's just say if you want or need to use Windows (or whatever the case may be), then indeed that's consistent with the original comment about using the right tool for the job, where "right" may derive from absolute necessity on down through merely preference or familiarity.
In other words, while I'm (as I said) a big Linux fan, I don't pretend that it solves every problem and is right for everyone and everything.
Operating systems are just tools, use whatever makes the most sense for the job.
Finally, a breath of fresh air.
I'm an unabashed Linux fan and use it for everything. That's my choice and preference.
If Windows or Mac or WhoKnowsWhat suits you better, that's your choice and preference.