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| Thread ID: 73946 | 2006-11-06 18:17:00 | Some Points To Ponder About Linux | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 496909 | 2006-11-10 20:32:00 | STUNNING. An entire pack of GOLD STARS. Top effort. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 496910 | 2006-11-10 21:05:00 | What's "poncy"? Tazz throws a can of beer at Metla Tazz then insults Wanganui for having Micheal poncy Laws as Mayor |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 496911 | 2006-11-10 21:32:00 | Another blog about Linux.... blogs.zdnet.com | SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 496912 | 2006-11-10 23:02:00 | What's "poncy"? Tazz throws a can of beer at Metla Tazz then insults Wanganui for having Micheal poncy Laws as Mayorponce [pons] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation –noun British Slang. 1. a pimp. 2. a campily effeminate male. <<-- this one :) |
Myth (110) | ||
| 496913 | 2006-11-13 02:16:00 | If someone has an issue with Windows then its far more likely it will not only have a simple fix but that finding someone with a tip or two will take next to no time at all. Not so with Linux. As for a Linux box purrs along more happily then a Windows box?, heh?, what are you talking about? Id love to see how you qualify that statement. The Microsoft support is crap, it takes a hell of a long time to get to them - just like Telecom! ;) - if I need support for Linux I just simply open my IRC client and connect to Freenode, join an appropriate channel(for me, that's #fedoracore), ask my question and normally I get an indepth explanation within a minute. Where is the official Microsoft support channel!? Linux uses less resources than Windows, it's stablererer - is that a word? :) - so yes, I'd define that as "purring" along more happily than Windows. Last time I checked XP home cost $120, A tiny amount and hardly even registers on the cost of a new PC, within a couple of years OEM Vista will be dirt cheap as well. Any of you Linux lovers want to see which system runs Photoshop the best? Whoops, I forgot, Your limited to homebrew apps. (A note, Im impressed by the concept of Linux, But she and the Linux community have failed in just about every area so far, apart from making a system that if it installs correctly the "average joe" can email from and do a bit of word processing, sounds like WINDOWS 95...................HA) The GIMP is a pretty good image editor, which you can use instead of Photoshop. Homebrew? Right. Whatever you say. About your note: Linux is about customization - you have to expect to do some work to get it the way you want. Please reconsider those statements. If something goes screwy in Linux, one has to break into a clique of people who may or may not help you...it's the truth...present people excepted. If you mess up with Windows, there's so many people out there who can help..even scads more websites dedicated to that problem and most 12 y/o kids have a better understanding of M$ than most adults. This isn't true about most Linux permutations. Looking at the Fedora forum at this exact moment I see these stats: Threads: 203,174, Posts: 991,386, Members: 80,952 Most of the responses to questions on there are helpful. Ugh, How could you configure a Windows system so badly that music skipped?, Yet then go through the indepth process of configuring Linux to an acceptable state. Hell, I play music on mine, while surfing the net, and encoding video...... Lets point out that no Linux out of the box plays mp3's shall we, Throw that at a nub. Or ask a Linux nub to even set up a machine to encode video firewire, Correct hardware,drivers, software.....yeah right. Anyhow, Linux works...for those that make the OS the most important part of their comp and dedicate themselves to learning it, and it takes a bit of brain power and dedication to do it. And you still end up with half of what Windows (burn in hell MS) has to offer, This is the reason Linux is still an obscure movement viewed in much the same was as tree huggers are. Anyhow, Linux faster then Windows?, Bollocks. Erm, shouldn't that be the other way around? :) - Windows does half of what Linux can do. Seriously, looking in this months edition of PCWorld they were comparing Vistas "best" features with Apples "best" features, most Linux distros have every single one of those "features" in them. Heh, I don't hate Windows, I just don't prefer it. Although I'm using it right at this moment - so my argument is sorta null & void. Oh, e-debates are fun! :D I'm done. |
byte (11156) | ||
| 496914 | 2006-11-13 02:27:00 | Windows does half of what Linux can doYeah but... Windows does games :p | mejobloggs (264) | ||
| 496915 | 2006-11-14 10:00:00 | Please reconsider those statements. If something goes screwy in Linux, one has to break into a clique of people who may or may not help you...it's the truth...present people excepted. If you mess up with Windows, there's so many people out there who can help..even scads more websites dedicated to that problem and most 12 y/o kids have a better understanding of M$ than most adults. This isn't true about most Linux permutations. No I won't because properly setup they don't go screwy like Windows. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 496916 | 2006-11-14 10:13:00 | If someone has an issue with Windows then its far more likely it will not only have a simple fix but that finding someone with a tip or two will take next to no time at all. A simple fix, not really unless you call a reinstall simple but you are right about there being more people around to tinker with your box and some of them do as much damage as good As for a Linux box purrs along more happily then a Windows box?, heh?, what are you talking about? Id love to see how you qualify that statement. It is quite easy. I had a friend whose kids were always stuffing his box up (did about three reinstalls over the years) so I installed Fedora and the only support call I got from him was after he forgot his password. With Linux once you have it set up properly there is very little to go wrong with it. I haven't come across anyone yet who have had there Linux OS die because of a virus. Lets point out that no Linux out of the box plays mp3's shall we. Wrong as my Fedora Core 3 box runs all my MP3's without a hitch and I have not tweaked anything to do with sound. Noatun Anyhow, Linux works...for those that make the OS the most important part of their comp and dedicate themselves to learning it, and it takes a bit of brain power and dedication to do it. Actually if you started off with Dos it isn't such a great leap. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 496917 | 2006-11-16 09:46:00 | A simple fix, not really unless you call a reinstall simple but you are right about there being more people around to tinker with your box and some of them do as much damage as good Yes, because a reinstall is the only way to fix a microsoft problem. That's akin to saying "Linux problems are easy to solve. If you find reinstalling because you have to go through 13425254424214124 steps to fix them normally. And reinstalling isn't easy because you've got to download 45325355523532532mb of packages you'll never ever need but hey open source winz lolz" It is quite easy. I had a friend whose kids were always stuffing his box up (did about three reinstalls over the years) so I installed Fedora and the only support call I got from him was after he forgot his password. With Linux once you have it set up properly there is very little to go wrong with it. I haven't come across anyone yet who have had there Linux OS die because of a virus. That's lovely and everything, but there's the problem. It's so difficult to install and get running it's much easier to stay with windows and call your sister's husband's dog walker's cousin's church minister's twin's uncle twice removed's cousin to fix it Wrong as my Fedora Core 3 box runs all my MP3's without a hitch and I have not tweaked anything to do with sound. Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu/whateverbuntu doesn't, and it's a fairly manual process to get it working. Unfortunately, it's also the distro that everyone recommends Actually if you started off with Dos it isn't such a great leap. Most are GUI wimps, thus the candy coated aqua/luna interfaces are all they can use |
Qrrbrbirlbel (11399) | ||
| 496918 | 2006-11-17 02:16:00 | Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu/whateverbuntu doesn't, and it's a fairly manual process to get it working. Unfortunately, it's also the distro that everyone recommendsNot true - that is precisely what Automatix (http://getautomatix.com/) is for. Utterly painless. There is also a debian port (dcconfig). | Erayd (23) | ||
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