My OperaLife the universe, everything and Micro$oft (edited for lack of vulgarity)
Wednesday, November 2, 2005 7:23:07 PM
You don't give Linux enough credit. Lets take Suse linux 9.3 for this example. First off, I could train a monkey to install and use it. However, I've run out of monkies and had to settle for humans instead. As far as interfaces go yes there is alot available for use. As far as the one most newbies could deal with easily I'd say its KDE. I have always used KDE from the start. I know its a big GUI and has proably more apps and tools then one can comfortably use, but thats the great part you never know when you might find that app you've looked for so hard in KDE suddenly. I say so what that Linux is kernel, big deal. Its the apps and stuff you pile around it that make it a usable OS. Suse is proably the best RPM based distro out there. For example I can tweak the kernel till I am blue in the face and it doesn't care, unlike Fedora which is patch to hell and back. I used Fedora Core 3 for quite a while and I enjoyed it, but I was not able to tweak the kernel like I wanted to so I moved on. I'll take a moment to sing some praises to RPM, rpm does a damn fine job at managing and installing apps. In suse I open yast pull up the installer, type in what I'm looking for and hit Accept which installs the stuff I want. Makes windows MSI stuff look pathetic. Thanks to this article its confirmed some theories about M$ specifically the commoun controls. I get the point why apps and stuff can pile up so fast in Windows. I also agree with the person that made the comment OSX makes windows look hard, it does totally. I've been a die hard Windows user until I discovered Linux, and realized hey there is something better out there. I got fed up with XP a few years later and said screw it I'm using Linux. Even better I've managed to run my own business off of only Linux for about 1.5 years now. I've converted average joe type windows users to Linux and/or Mac users and they have all told me how much better than windows these things are. This from the average know nothing user thats used windows for a long enough period of time to realize how crappy it can be. Specifically with spyware and damned trojans and virii. I am a religous type fanatic about Linux and Open source, I made it my mission in life to show people they don't need to be mindless M$ slaves for the rest of their life. Guess what all you M$ sympathizers out there, I'm succeeding, by simply showing them and alternative. Showing all those average joe types there's better out there. Though some articles had a few nicely made valid points, still came from a M$ sympathizer, so I obligated to take it with a grain of salt. Yes, I'm doing and not just sitting on my ass preaching, but never practicing what I preach. I may not be Sean Kennedy, but sometimes I'm a close fucking second to none even on his scale. I am not brain washed SLAVE OF MICRO$OFT UNLIKE SOME OF YOU MONKEYS OUT THERE! TO YOU I SAY WAKE THE FUCK UP AND SMELL THE ROSES TAKE A FUCKING CHANCE, I FUCKING DARE YOU! TRY LINUX JUST OFF YOU'RE ASS AND TRY IT! HELL YOU CAN EVEN USE GOOD LIVECDS LIKE Knoppix AND WHAT NOT! YOU CAN EITHER TAKE A FUCKING CHANCE OR JUST HYPOCRITES AND SIT AND BITCH ABOUT SHIT YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT! I'M FEED UP WITH IT I QUITE BEING MICRO$OFTS BITCH YEARS AGO. AT THE VERY MINIUM TAKE THE FUCKING CHANCE. FREE YOURSELVES OF THIS CORPORATE MINDLESS FUCKING WHORISM AND BLASPHEMY THAT IS MICRO$OFT!
