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emh:
quote:Originally posted by excorcist:
ok good points
I shoulda made an exception about mandrake. It is relitavely easy to use.
Wasn't trying to be condesending about it, sorry about that.
I just wish linux was a little more user friendly.
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No hard feelings. The environment here can get the best of us.... ;)
User friendliness in Linux does have room for improvement, but I personally never found anything to be prohibitively difficult.
TheQuirk:
quote:Originally posted by Force:
I know Linux is denting Microsoft's monopoly but still few people use Linux. The reason people dont flood to Linux is beacuse it is a lot harder than Windows (or because "new" means bad like XP ). I am not saying Windows is good by any means, i am saying it is all people know. Most of us here are young, and young people try new things. The average person:
1) doesnt have the time to run and learn a new OS
2) doesnt really care because Windows half-asses things for them and they think it is peachy because they know nothing else.
I just got RedHat, and i love it, im still a very large noob at it but i can see once i get the hang of it, i will have no need to dual boot with windows anymore.
I think Windows' dominace will aventually change, but right now there are lots of people who just dont give a shit, they just wanna check their email and chat basicly. Most people dont know how to do the most basic things on Windows, let alone try to learn a much more difficult system (I feel it is only difficult because it is new, if every1 was brought up on Linux and Windows was the newer kid on the block, if you will, Windows would be the hard one to learn)
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That's for clearing that up.
TheQuirk:
quote:Originally posted by Linux User #5225982375:
The only reason Linux even stands a chance against Microsoft is because it *is* free software, in my opinion. Think about other superior OSes like BeOS or MacOS who have yet to make a dent in Windows' sales.
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A few major computer OEMs were going to include BeOS along with Windows. The reason they didn't?
In the last minute, some nice Microsoft guys came to the OEMs and read them a few paragraphs of their agreement stating they were not allowed to add anything other than Windows to the bootloader.
Teehee. Toshiba, I think, ended up installing BeOS but never adding it to the MBR... Ha ha.
Calum:
quote:Originally posted by excorcist:
ok good points
I shoulda made an exception about mandrake. It is relitavely easy to use.
Wasn't trying to be condesending about it, sorry about that.
I just wish linux was a little more user friendly.
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it is.
sorry, but if you plan to roar off a bunch of crap that's five years out of date about how linux is only for people who love to waste hours writing their own drivers and all that crap that windoids often come out with when they are faced with something that threatens your status quo then i think you deserve all you get.
writing off the entire forums here in your first post by saying you won't be understood by us moronic linux users (yes i am paraphrasing) is simply insecurity on your part, enabling you to feel good about yourself regardless of what kind of response you receive.
there are *many* linux distros that a child could work with *easily*, are you saying a fully qualified "tech guy" would have problems doing something a child could cope with?
don't get too detached, you might miss something that would otherwise have benefited you greatly.
[ March 28, 2003: Message edited by: Calum: crusader for justice & peace ]
ShawnD1:
if you want to look for reasons, i'm a model example of why not to use Linux
client reasons:
1. the game Half-Life doesn't work in Linux becaue the anti-cheat detects Win4Lin and Wine as being 'hacks' because they technically count as hooks (outside programs that run the game)
2. the game Diablo2 doesn't work in Linux
3. Kazaa doesn't work in Linux.... i've tried Gnutella and although it works, it's not nearly as good because it doesn't filter out fake files, not as many clients and so forth.
4. i can't run videos in Linux. i watch a lot of movies on my computer but movies are avi format and most of them use DivX and Xvid plugins which are Windows only
5. no MSN messenger. although Linux has ICQ, people are starting to move away from ICQ for some reason and moving towards the sucky ass MSN messenger. although i don't exactly like MSN, MSN is the only chat program all my friends from school seem to have (because they're dumb)
6. my scanner and digital camera don't work on Linux
server reasons:
1. i can't get PHP to work on Linux.... this is a lame excuse though because i got it working before but i just can't get it working now
2. i can't get MySQL to work, programs just never seem to be able to connect to it even after mysqld is running
little annoyances
1. i can't copy a URL from text editor into the address bar of Mozilla or Opera, you can only copy and paste within 1 program
2. when i double click the address bar in Mozilla or Opera, the clipboard pops up asking me what to do and it's annoying as hell... i still haven't figured out how to change that
3. similar things group together just like in windows but in Linux i can't figure out how to turn that off, it's nowhere in the control panel
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