Operating Systems > Linux and UNIX

Sorting through the Linux lie: What it really can do

(1/4) > >>

sime:
Light blue touch paper, stand well back, let the debate begin...


Pronouncement the First: As a user-level operating system, Linux is a cruel and tawdry lie. Bigfoot will fly to your house and personally deliver a $30,000 tax refund before there's a Linux that can challenge Windows or MacOS in terms of usability. If anyone tells you otherwise, your only rebuttal should be to administer that thing that Moe used to do to Larry -- you know, where he'd grab Larry's nose with one hand and smack it down with the other.

Pronouncement the Second: None of that matters. Linux is still one of the best and most important OS's on the landscape.

http://www.suntimes.com/output/worktech/cst-fin-andy23.html

Later

Sime

WMD:

--- Quote ---On Linux, you plug in a DVD burner, and -- nothing happens.

You go online, download what you think are the right drivers, and -- more nothing. If you ever get it up and running, it'll only be after conducting the sort of research and extended investigation that brought down Enron.
--- End quote ---

This bit I highly doubt.  I could burn CDs right out of the box, and DVD shouldn't be harder (distros now have dvdrw-tools).

MrX:

--- Quote from: sime ---Light blue touch paper, stand well back, let the debate begin...


Pronouncement the First: As a user-level operating system, Linux is a cruel and tawdry lie. Bigfoot will fly to your house and personally deliver a $30,000 tax refund before there's a Linux that can challenge Windows or MacOS in terms of usability. If anyone tells you otherwise, your only rebuttal should be to administer that thing that Moe used to do to Larry -- you know, where he'd grab Larry's nose with one hand and smack it down with the other.

Pronouncement the Second: None of that matters. Linux is still one of the best and most important OS's on the landscape.

http://www.suntimes.com/output/worktech/cst-fin-andy23.html

Later

Sime
--- End quote ---


agreed, a very user unfriendly OS indeed mostly only smart people from europe  can use it because lots of people use it there and you can like ask your neighbor for help on it well it's not the case here.

Mr X

Refalm:

--- Quote ---On Linux, you plug in a DVD burner, and -- nothing happens.

You go online, download what you think are the right drivers, and -- more nothing. If you ever get it up and running, it'll only be after conducting the sort of research and extended investigation that brought down Enron.
--- End quote ---


Maybe with Slackware yes, but I once got a Mac OS style pop-up once on SuSE, telling me that it was going to install my freshly hooked up CD-ROM player.

While I hated SuSE's hardware management system (something with a Y), it proves that the above claim is right out false.

WMD:

--- Quote ---Maybe with Slackware yes,
--- End quote ---

Not even with Slackware.  I could burn CDs without any setup.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page