Why use an arcane OS???
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I'm disappointed with Linux. I like learning new concepts, but there are endless problems getting this OS to RUN. I've had so many different problems. My main gripe is that I haven't found any useful information to assist me. I've searched Linux sites looking for clues that just never panned out. I've had about fifteen various problems using Linux and I've never found an answer for any. User forums? You ask a question and get twenty separate responses, and one by one they don't work. I can't stress that enough: the solutions *don't* work, and you waste time on red herrings. When facing unfathomable Linux problems (like not seeing my NIC any more) I just re-install the thing. I hate taking the easy way out, but that's the reason for it - it IS easier than having to endlessly investigate the matter, trying unsuccessful methods. I like challenges and I like hard work, but those necessitate a successful outcome. If I spend 5 hours looking and get an answer, I don't consider it a waste. I don't like spending an evening looking for a non-existent fix or reading dozens of pages of alleged solutions to find that they don't do the job and "Well, nobody knows the answer."
Why is Linux popular with some?
1) It's stable; it never crashes or has to be rebooted
Not true; I've had my Linux box freeze up on me when using KDE or Gnome. But even if it didn't crash, let's weigh that against the difficult problem resolution and lack of sufficient documentation. What's more important, not crashing/rebooting, or being able to do your work and solve problems quickly and permanently?
2) It's free!
Define "free." Time or money? You may have to pay to buy a distro, but Linux programs definitely are free. That doesn't mean I should use them simply because of this factor. Supper in a soup kitchen is free, too, whereas dining at the Four Seasons might cost you $100. Which meal was tastier and more satisfying? The bowl of beef broth, or the filet mignon?
Regarding the matter of time spent, how long will it take the average user to get the Linux apps running? To get the Linux OS running? To find drivers? To locate patches? To manage some sort of successful resolution of a confusing problem? Not even the most rabid Linux user can tell me that installing and setting stuff up is quicker and easier than on Windows. It's just not true. With Windows, I click "Setup," and it installs.
The programs I need run on Windows. I can't even guess what their Linux equivalent might be, if such applications exist. And if they do, who knows how much hassle and sweat it will cost me to get them running under Linux, assuming they CAN run.
I don't have a problem with new challenges. If every, most, or even SOME of the problems I've had with Linux could be resolved with hard work, I wouldn't be writing this. It's the wasted time that makes me disagree with "Linux is free!"; the failed solution; the wild goose chase and all the aggravation that does make Linux costly. If I have to pay money for an application that's up and running in five minutes so I can start working, so be it. My goal is using the app, not trying to figure out why it won't run. My goal does not include the possibility of devoting an evening trying to get something going only to finally shrug in disgust and give up.
4) It's open source!
I'm not a programmer; I don't care.
5) There's plenty of help available
I've never seen any useful hints from either documents or users.
6) Microsoft sucks!
This is the motto of many Linuxlovers. If you removed Microsoft from the equation and both Windows AND Linux were free, the Linux user base would be reduced to perhaps a third; maybe less. This would constitute the people who really like using Linux and would choose it as their OS of choice regardless of external circumstances.
By the way, i just saw CmdrTaco being rushed to the hospital, i just managed to see Homos protruding from his ass. Upon asking he told me the slashdot editorial team found a new pasttime.
I just removed the fscking IE from my HD and installed a few others (Opera, Netscape,..).
I'm gonna use these for a few weeks and then decide which one i like best.
Pitty i can't get rid of win2000( for which i didn't pay!) because of other ppl in our household.
Goddamn motherfuckers are trying to take over the internet!
What's next, My car logging into the passport Mumbo Jumbo before it starts?
The nose of the sub has been cut off because the structural integrity could not be asserted. That part hit the bottom first and is too damaged. The nose happens to contain the nukes, so the mammoet guys are not taking any chances.
The russions will attempt to recover the nose later themselves.
Maybe one of those dinosaurs carries some of Bill's first snippets. And after carefull analyses we could determine where and how exactly things went bad. I suppose it comes down to something like this
#define EVERYTHING ( MEM + SWAP)
int Main(){
bla; bla;
myfirstwinappsallocatedheap = malloc(EVERYTHING); /* Useless code here */
return(0);
}
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Damn, you just outTROLLED me on this troll.
I'm disappointed with Linux. I like learning new concepts, but there are endless problems getting this OS to RUN. I've had so many different problems. My main gripe is that I haven't found any useful information to assist me. I've searched Linux sites looking for clues that just never panned out. I've had about fifteen various problems using Linux and I've never found an answer for any. User forums? You ask a question and get twenty separate responses, and one by one they don't work. I can't stress that enough: the solutions *don't* work, and you waste time on red herrings. When facing unfathomable Linux problems (like not seeing my NIC any more) I just re-install the thing. I hate taking the easy way out, but that's the reason for it - it IS easier than having to endlessly investigate the matter, trying unsuccessful methods. I like challenges and I like hard work, but those necessitate a successful outcome. If I spend 5 hours looking and get an answer, I don't consider it a waste. I don't like spending an evening looking for a non-existent fix or reading dozens of pages of alleged solutions to find that they don't do the job and "Well, nobody knows the answer."
Why is Linux popular with some?
1) It's stable; it never crashes or has to be rebooted
Not true; I've had my Linux box freeze up on me when using KDE or Gnome. But even if it didn't crash, let's weigh that against the difficult problem resolution and lack of sufficient documentation. What's more important, not crashing/rebooting, or being able to do your work and solve problems quickly and permanently?
2) It's free!
Define "free." Time or money? You may have to pay to buy a distro, but Linux programs definitely are free. That doesn't mean I should use them simply because of this factor. Supper in a soup kitchen is free, too, whereas dining at the Four Seasons might cost you $100. Which meal was tastier and more satisfying? The bowl of beef broth, or the filet mignon?
Regarding the matter of time spent, how long will it take the average user to get the Linux apps running? To get the Linux OS running? To find drivers? To locate patches? To manage some sort of successful resolution of a confusing problem? Not even the most rabid Linux user can tell me that installing and setting stuff up is quicker and easier than on Windows. It's just not true. With Windows, I click "Setup," and it installs.
The programs I need run on Windows. I can't even guess what their Linux equivalent might be, if such applications exist. And if they do, who knows how much hassle and sweat it will cost me to get them running under Linux, assuming they CAN run.
I don't have a problem with new challenges. If every, most, or even SOME of the problems I've had with Linux could be resolved with hard work, I wouldn't be writing this. It's the wasted time that makes me disagree with "Linux is free!"; the failed solution; the wild goose chase and all the aggravation that does make Linux costly. If I have to pay money for an application that's up and running in five minutes so I can start working, so be it. My goal is using the app, not trying to figure out why it won't run. My goal does not include the possibility of devoting an evening trying to get something going only to finally shrug in disgust and give up.
4) It's open source!
I'm not a programmer; I don't care.
5) There's plenty of help available
I've never seen any useful hints from either documents or users.
6) Microsoft sucks!
This is the motto of many Linuxlovers. If you removed Microsoft from the equation and both Windows AND Linux were free, the Linux user base would be reduced to perhaps a third; maybe less. This would constitute the people who really like using Linux and would choose it as their OS of choice regardless of external circumstances.
Nice Troll dude.
By the way, i just saw CmdrTaco being rushed to the hospital, i just managed to see Homos protruding from his ass. Upon asking he told me the slashdot editorial team found a new pasttime.
GOATSE.CX diving from cupboards!
Plz, quit bitching, bitch. U spelling nazi's need to get laid more and chill out in a bar where u don't leave until u are totally pissed.
Get a LIFE.
I just removed the fscking IE from my HD and installed a few others (Opera, Netscape, ..).
I'm gonna use these for a few weeks and then decide which one i like best.
Pitty i can't get rid of win2000( for which i didn't pay!) because of other ppl in our household.
Goddamn motherfuckers are trying to take over the internet!
What's next, My car logging into the passport Mumbo Jumbo before it starts?
it looks like your sig just segfaulted
The nose of the sub has been cut off because the structural integrity could not be asserted. That part hit the bottom first and is too damaged. The nose happens to contain the nukes, so the mammoet guys are not taking any chances.
The russions will attempt to recover the nose later themselves.
Yeah, you heared me.
Hey slow down! I'm still in the process of /. my harddrive with startoffice 6.0.
I guess ADSL sucks now.
Blizzard's WARCRAFT II battle.NET edition... hmmmm they must have been to a bar together where the microcorpdick spilled the beans.
Maybe one of those dinosaurs carries some of Bill's first snippets. And after carefull analyses we could determine where and how exactly things went bad.
/* Useless code here */
I suppose it comes down to something like this
#define EVERYTHING ( MEM + SWAP)
int Main(){
bla; bla;
myfirstwinappsallocatedheap = malloc(EVERYTHING);
return(0);
}
Not only that, this guy is so damn arrogant. He's implying that you cannot possibly have a job where you have what he mentioned.
Can i please have the other one?