Gimp and Cinepaint (despite originally being a fork of Gimp) are not the same thing, Ardour is not a joke, and have you seen the screenshots of what people have done with Blender?
I'll accept what you're saying for a second. Suppose they do suck. That doesn't run contrary to my point, since I suggested that free software alternatives may reach the level of the commercial apps.
My point was that your point that Linux will never replace Windows because users expect software to be free, thus barring any commercial software from being ported.
That is a silly point to begin with, since most people don't use that software, and if 75% of the home desktop users who don't use all that software used Linux, the commercial vendors would have to port to Linux (and at that point, many, many users wouldn't expect their software to be free).
Can you please tell me why JACK and Ardour suck? As well as Gimp and Cinepaint. Also, your beef against Blender appears to be the UI; note that many experienced 3d artists grow to love the UI.
At any rate, I see no architectural stumbling blocks.
It's all in the theme...you can compare one theme to another in terms of looks, and one widget set to another in terms of performance and functionality.
Absolutely. However, I've done Linux from Scratch many times (which is imho more educational than Gentoo), and the first time was actually the least educational. It isn't till you start tweaking that you really learn.
It's not that I don't have a clue, it's that I wasn't saying what you think I said.
For a newbie (your average Fedora or Mandrake user) to install Gentoo, they're going to have to read and reread documentation and possibly consult forums for help, and the whole process will take a week or two most likely.
I'm not saying that Gentoo always takes this long.
Please make an effort to try and understand my post without getting defensive and thinking that your beloved OS is being attacked when it isn't.
I'm not saying Gentoo can't be installed quickly. I'm saying for a complete newbie who will need to read and reread documentation, and probably get help from forums, a week or two is more appropriate.
I wasn't saying that Gentoo always takes a long time to install.
I would worry if they expect to be working on their computer in any less than a week (two if they're either really clueless, or in need of finding an internet connection elsewhere while they install).
I think the crux of this issue is that on 9/11, cellphones from New York spread work quickly, and soon that flight in Pennsylvania went down because (presumably) the passengers knew their plane would be used as a missle and got up and did something about it.
I'll sum it up: use Xandros, SuSE, or Linspire. Use CodeWeavers or Win4Lin if you can't handle OO.o.
It doesn't really go into the details like migration issues at all. The author only mentions the difficulty of moving over in one of the final paragraphs.
Collusion and lying make these people criminals, not "rightwing corporate dupes." I'm not denying that this exists, merely that the grandparent, along with many slashdotters, was just being silly.
I understand that my post was an exaggeration--but in no way did I imply that corporate crime does not exist.
Noooo...you see, in our world here, corporations like IBM and HP have secret meetings where they agree to only make the appearance of competing. Really, they just pool cash to buy Republicans into office (which will presumably go out of their way to legislate all of the money out of the pockets of the masses), jack up prices, and more importantly think of ways they can screw end customers out of money, even if it hurts them too.
Please don't try to hurt what we've done here. We've brought as many brainless anti-corporate zealots together to form our own little "pretend" community, where we can spearhead a global movement against a non-existant threat. I personally would much rather consider myself a 'revolutionary' than an 'arrogant intellectial with hidden self esteem problems.'
Posts like yours only remind us of that reality that exists upstairs where our parents are working hard to make this dream possible.
You're pretty sad if you had to pretend that the parent wasn't joking in order to sound smarter than him just to give yourself a chuckle and "pat on the pack."
It would have no advantage over iTunes for music you've heard before and know you want, but if you like listening to stations that play music you haven't heard before, it'd be a really cool to buy the song after you've heard it.
is if the RIAA created a new digital radio that had a CDR in it, and the user could select "download & rip" for 1$ like in iTunes and the radio would compress the song into FLAC, ogg, or mp3, and burn it to the next track.
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I'll accept what you're saying for a second. Suppose they do suck. That doesn't run contrary to my point, since I suggested that free software alternatives may reach the level of the commercial apps.
My point was that your point that Linux will never replace Windows because users expect software to be free, thus barring any commercial software from being ported.
That is a silly point to begin with, since most people don't use that software, and if 75% of the home desktop users who don't use all that software used Linux, the commercial vendors would have to port to Linux (and at that point, many, many users wouldn't expect their software to be free).
Can you please tell me why JACK and Ardour suck? As well as Gimp and Cinepaint. Also, your beef against Blender appears to be the UI; note that many experienced 3d artists grow to love the UI.
At any rate, I see no architectural stumbling blocks.
Unless, of course, free software can match commercial equivalents.
Unless this guy is the only guy that would know how to accomplish this feat.
Better drivers aren't driving a granny tranny in the first place :)
A: What are we doing?
B: We're sitting here waiting for a game to play.
A: Why can't we find a different game?
B: Because we're waiting for DKF.
Oh, the absurdity.
Your reply to his post: "Depends on whose urine you are drinking."
There's a joke there somewhere.
It's all in the theme...you can compare one theme to another in terms of looks, and one widget set to another in terms of performance and functionality.
Absolutely. However, I've done Linux from Scratch many times (which is imho more educational than Gentoo), and the first time was actually the least educational. It isn't till you start tweaking that you really learn.
For a newbie (your average Fedora or Mandrake user) to install Gentoo, they're going to have to read and reread documentation and possibly consult forums for help, and the whole process will take a week or two most likely.
I'm not saying that Gentoo always takes this long.
Please make an effort to try and understand my post without getting defensive and thinking that your beloved OS is being attacked when it isn't.
I wasn't saying that Gentoo always takes a long time to install.
I would worry if they expect to be working on their computer in any less than a week (two if they're either really clueless, or in need of finding an internet connection elsewhere while they install).
I think the crux of this issue is that on 9/11, cellphones from New York spread work quickly, and soon that flight in Pennsylvania went down because (presumably) the passengers knew their plane would be used as a missle and got up and did something about it.
This could be bad.
I'll sum it up: use Xandros, SuSE, or Linspire. Use CodeWeavers or Win4Lin if you can't handle OO.o.
It doesn't really go into the details like migration issues at all. The author only mentions the difficulty of moving over in one of the final paragraphs.
I'm not sure, but I think it migbt cost a lot to send a text message to a cell phone in the US from South Korea.
A lot of times shareware authors end up trying to pack a bunch of crappy features in the software just to justify the cost. That's the worst.
I understand that my post was an exaggeration--but in no way did I imply that corporate crime does not exist.
Please don't try to hurt what we've done here. We've brought as many brainless anti-corporate zealots together to form our own little "pretend" community, where we can spearhead a global movement against a non-existant threat. I personally would much rather consider myself a 'revolutionary' than an 'arrogant intellectial with hidden self esteem problems.'
Posts like yours only remind us of that reality that exists upstairs where our parents are working hard to make this dream possible.
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You're pretty sad if you had to pretend that the parent wasn't joking in order to sound smarter than him just to give yourself a chuckle and "pat on the pack."
Ogg vorbis uses an entirely different compression scheme that is not covered by any patents.
It would have no advantage over iTunes for music you've heard before and know you want, but if you like listening to stations that play music you haven't heard before, it'd be a really cool to buy the song after you've heard it.
Did you read my post? I'm talking about both a car stereo, and an integrated burner (Bug just rips the songs to mp3 and dumps them out the USB port).
Or can digital radios already do this?
I thought the article was talking about xserver and xlib :)
Now those are a real challenge to install on your own.