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flap:
DivX and Xvid work in Linux.
You can get MSN clients for Linux.
PHP and Mysql work fine in Linux.
You can copy and paste between programs.
You can turn off the clipboard.
If you're talking about KDE then right-click on the panel, go to the Taskbar section, uncheck "Group similar tasks"

xyle_one:

quote:Originally posted by 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
--- End quote ---

i still think that the "no-games" argument is bullshit. they do make systems designed specifically for video games, are much cheaper than a computer, and run on your tv. which of course, has a bigger screen.
okay. i hate windows. but it is easy. it is also very much a piece of shit. jaguar is perfect. its easier to install apps on it than windows. its easier to use. its unix. it has never crashed on me. (well, i made it crash on purpose once just to see what it was like. i cant remember how i did it though. it was on some mac site). linux is not easy. its not extremelly hard either. i have just been spoiled with macOSX, so jumping into linux is proving to be a challenge.

ShawnD1:
ecsyle_one, console games suck. why play a game with a maximum of 4 people on some console with people who have to be at my house instead of playing with up to 32 (64 in newer games) who could be from anywhere in the world? i've tried that online PS2 thing and it sucked, all game servers that exists are what are called 'listen servers' meaning that they are run by a person who is playing the game at the current time, as soon as that person leaves - the server goes down. another gay thing about console online games is that there will never be 'mods' for them. have you heard of the game Counter-Strike? Counter-Strike is a mod for the game Half-Life. although CS is one of the most popular online games right now, it still can't be deemed as a game on its own because it is based on Half-Life. there are tons of popular 'mods' for games such as TacOps for UT, TFC, NS, DOD and CS for Half-Life. most servers and people playing Half-Life, UT, Quake* are playing mods of those games which are in many cases created by independant groups of people or third party companies, not by the company to make the original game. if you take out the ability of having mods for games, you're just left with 1 really gay ass game that will suck.


flap, you said "You can copy and paste between programs". i don't doubt that you can, but seriously is there a trick or something? when installing something, i would always read the install or readme file in text editor and it would have some link in it, usualy to a FAQ. i would scroll over the link, right click and hit 'copy' then go into Mozilla and right click into the address bar and hit 'paste'. it would never paste anything though   :(

[ March 28, 2003: Message edited by: ShawnD1 ]

flap:
In X you copy simply by selecting text. The middle mouse button pastes.

ezra abrams:
General Motors announces a great new car; every morning u go out, measure the temperature and humidity, and get out some tools and set your engine for optimal performance...
Of course its ludicrous, but that is sort of the theory of linux: for a lot more work, you get "better" performance. Who Cares ? get it through your head: 99% of people, like me, dont care.I use computers everyday, and I really dont care that bill gates is a filthy rich jerk, or that the code is bloated, or that their are hidden files that i cant control. I do my work, and go home, and I have better things to worry about.
Let me add an analogy: during the 80s, Reagan would say these absurd things on TV. Someone complained to one of his aids, and the answer - u can look this up- SO what if he "misstates" millions hear him on tv; thousands read the correction in the times the next morning.
Linux people are sort of like that minority that reads the paper and actually cares that the president made non true statements.
to put is another way: someone once explained that hte problem with al gore is, he thinks if he just had enoght hours to explain taxes, you would agree with him. People are not logical; I dont think linux will ever will because peoples brains have limited bandwidth, and who cares about a new os or windows looking at you.
The funny thing is, bill doesnt have to do anything: the linux people will actually fight for the privelidge to slit each others throats. if they had gotten together and put together one real, with applications and drivers, they might have had a chance. As it is, with redhat and gnu and all this other stuff, they are diffusing their energy: their own anarchy and freedom is bills greatest weapon!!
Actually linux has a real use. I'm serious here. If you talk to older (60s) engineers, they all played with crystal radios as kids, and they are all worried about what the engineers of tomorrow, todays kids are gonna do. Because now everything is a chip, and no 12 year old can monkey within a chip. Well the answer is linux: not really usefull, but great for a 12 year old. And those 12 year olds will grow up and go to mit and caltech and so forth.

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