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HibbeeBoy:
quote:Originally posted by Calum:
i can see what you guys are saying, and i agree with it, all except for those "linux isn't all it's cracked up to be" type remarks. that is simply garbage.
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That remark is actually more applicable to Window$. If ever a product did not live up to it's billing, it would be Window$ XP, which is a f*****g liability.
Anybody that doesn't give Linux a fair crack is either stupid, hasn't looked into it properly or a non-trier.
Linux is the way forward, I'm betting my career on it !
xyle_one:
the flash movies are def taking shots at linux & mac. i was hoping there would be a windows one, but there wasn't :(
as for linux vs windows vs mac. the mac is unix + ease of use. windows is bloated, outdated, software, linux (the distros, not the kernel) is still a child, albeit a very powerful one. i still think linux has some hurdles to jump (wow, that was almost a pun i think, hurdles. im a dork sometimes ;) ). but i can see them becoming a very easy, very powerful solution in a few years. then again, linux is not that "hard" to use right now, its just different. OSX was hard the first time i used it because i came from a windows background. linux was challenging (still is somtimes ;) ) but what i was trying to learn was apache, samba, proftp, etc.. i wasnt just using the distro. i am now. so far, its painless. like my mac. my little analogy has failed me. i should probably go back and reword this post seeing as my view changed like 12 times in it.
Faust:
quote: If you can't do basic administration tasks, get a macintosh.
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:D :D :D
ooh there will be flames here soon large enough to make christians scream "armageddon."
and back to the topic, we have all seen the windows partition tool havent we? I mean that thing is less user friendly than fdisk! With red hat / mandrake (and a lot of other distros) you hit enter and *boom!* you have a GUI installer. With windows you have to hit F6 to shove in any third party drivers you need... then you partition, DOS style... then you format (which takes god damn yonks)... then you wait even frigging longer for the installer to copy necessary files to the disk... then *finally* the newbie gets a GUI. And red hat / mandrake are more difficult then this??? now that I have my partitions set up all I have to do to install Mandrake is hit the enter button about 15 times, and type in a few passwords when prompted by a big box which says "please enter your name and password", hardly rocket science!
I guess this is my way of saying that any criticism of Linux for being "difficult to install" is completely ridiculous. Now system administration can be tricky for a new user... If they are using a "power users" distribution or heavily customising things. Honestly the Mandrake default install gives a normal desktop user everything they need. Like Calum said Linux is about choice - sysadmins who remember PDP's don't want user friendliness, they just want a "hackers" system - so that's what they should get. New users on the other hand don't want distributions aimed at a kernel hacker, they want user friendliness so they should get a distribution like Mandrake or Red Hat. Which is not to say that Red Hat / Mandrake et al can't be power users distros either, whats to stop a Mandrake user bringing up xterm, installing gcc (not exactly hard, theres a big list of software in the mandrake control center where you click a few boxes, then you shove in a few CD's.) In fact theres nothing to stop a Mandrake user
from writing their own custom X windows software and using it, or writing up their own Window Manager. (sometimes I think the "old school / I hate user friendliness" guys just enjoy showing off )
The point is Linux users should never need to do anything more difficult than they do in Windows or when using a Mac, and in the vast majority of cases they won't.
xyle_one:
quote: If you can't do basic administration tasks, get a macintosh.
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ha.
Pissed_Macman:
[insert flame large enough to make christians scream "armageddon" here]
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