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Why do you use your particular operating system?

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Kintaro:

quote:Originally posted by Calum:
and i'd be well happy if you could see yr way clear, X11, to doing me a copy of this win/DOS CD you mentioned once it's finished, not sure what i can do in return, but there's bound to be something...

Also, back on topic, what with all those operating systems, the question on everybody's lips is "why?" do you use one over the other?
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Ok why i dont use Windows 9x based os primarily:
Unstable... Annoys me, no good hacking type tools no good communications... doesnt even have a customizable UI.

Why i dont use dos primarily:
Dos is faster than anything else, but sorry no reliable multitaskiing.

Why not NT BASED (XP, 2000, NT4) primarily:
Unconfiurable, poor security, more viruses than goosenburys mum. More backdoors than darkminion.cjb.net (DONT GO THERE)

Why not freeBSD:
To "criptic" for my IQ, my webserver will run it
but sorry, not a good workstation.

Why linux:
Well where to start, Stability linux is stable and secure. And despite rumors Linux does not involve "Criptic commands" the linux command line is just as easy as CMD.EXE how many people know how to use it??? Linux is not a criptic liabary of commands,
or it was. My nan could use Linux!

Calum:
top cool!

well, it seems so far that people have been citing usability as their main reason to choose either MacOS or Linux as their preferred platform. This surprises me a little, since, this being the "fuckmicrosoft.com" forums, i expected some more political answers.

As i say, my reason for preferring the idea of linux/GNU/BSD and so on is down, in the first instance, to the proprietary software model being what it is. Non-disclosure licences are not good as far as i can see, and there are a lot of those even amongst the MacOS and Linux camps.

Basically i reckon that if somebody comes round to your house and sees you using a program that they like, they should be able to ask for a copy, you should be able to copy it for them, and they should be able to go through the code, modifying it to their own requirements. And all this should be perfectly legal. Anything else is an annoyance and a hindrance to progress and involves people constantly performing the same task as each other because they are legally prohibited from sharing their work. For this reason, it gives rise to much needless incompatibility too.

I do reckon people should have the right to create software and release it under a different type of licence than the one i mention here, but i also reckon that people are not made aware enough of the intrinsic importance of a freely distributable type licence versus a proprietary one, even if the software concerned is"free" (as in free to buy, but not to modify or redistribute).

Anyway, i'm on my high horse again but i just wanted to make my own reasons heard. As it happens, myself, i find windows just as easy to use as linux at the moment, excepting windows' habit of crashing, freezing and generally failing regularly (but after a few more weeks of using linux, i think the 'ease of use' worm may turn, especially now i am also using BSD and SunOS via my shell accounts). However i certainly prefer GPLd software as an idea to any other type of software.

To me, proprietary unices, while much more stable, portable, reliable, versatile et c than windows, are just as bad (as Microsoft/windows) on a political front.

[ May 15, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]

Seeking000:
I've been trying to get off the 'crack' for some-time now.

The learning curve for Linux is steeper; I get the impression that I have to be fluent in a bazillion languages just to use the stuff *shrug*

Also, *frown* *big frown*  ...  Direct Draw, Direct X and (as mentioned earlier) music composition software.  VMWare is an option, dual boot is an option..

I also notice Lindows off in the horizon and wonder how that will shape the scene..

I just hope it gets 'better' in the near future..

-Seeking000

Calum:
i wouldn't bother with lindows. All the people who want to use linux with windows software come here and say "i heard about lindows, maybe that's the saviour for me", well don't count yr chickens. They are half a year late with their release version, they charge you 99 bucks so you can debug their OS for them, and all the stuff is available elsewhere anyway. I reckon you should look into wine, wineX (for your directX stuff) or, for blowing money, VMWare.

Use KDE as your desktop, and you should not need to know that much more than if you were using windows. Of course, unlike windows, anything more that you do learn can be put to good use.

Also, GNU/Linux is free, so you can dual boot and not lose anything, be aware though that Microsoft doesn't provide support (such as it is) for an installation of windows if you also have any other operating system installed on your computer. Nice guys, eh?

Seeking000:
One thing that just came to mind ...

I have read quite a bit lately (and not being an expert, cannot parse truth from fiction)..

Aparently, Linux has terrible anti-virus support and trojan support? I can't remember the exact articulation I found this issue at .. maybe the Happyhacker hmm..  (without source, this is basically a heresay troll)

Anyways, I was wondering how Linux would react to a virtual machine (Windows for example) that caught a virus..

-Seeker000

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