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My one gripe about linux

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dmcfarland:
For one I dont see the benefits or updating my kernel everytime a new one come out. I can see updating a kernel when there is a major revision.

I didnt install windows to play games, thats just a side benifit. Your attitude about linux is one of the reasons why it wont be an alternative to users who are currently using windows, and wont ever get popularity among regular people. I dont sucribe to your belief.

Linux had poor printer support 6 years ago, and now its much better. I predict gaming developers will come around eventually and so will others. People with your opinion however will make linux a non-alternative to windows, and that will allow M$ to keep its monopolistic strangle hold on the computer industry.



--- Quote from: worker201 ---Sounds like a user problem to me.

Just a reminder to everyone that Linux is not the system you install because you want to play games. You can play games on a Windows computer. You install Linux because you want to learn about computers, and/or have an intoxicating amount of control, and/or run a particular open source program, and/or support the OSS/FSF/GNU thing, and/or whatever other reasons you can come up with. Please remember that you must make sacrifices to not use the most popular operating system. If you're not willing to make those sacrifices, you're not ready to install Linux.
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cymon:
Fucking things up is how you learn. For instance, say you're trying to do something, I'm using Debian for an example because that's what I use, you're trying to add an APT repository. So you go and do nano sources.list and you screw it up. Big deal, that's fixable. But you can always reinstall, just don't do it again.

dmcfarland:
Im working on getting another pc so I can use one as a test bed. I can used that one to learn off of, while I have one for my normal stuff.

Pathos:
wine 0.9 is easy.

just:
./tools/wineinstall

then copy in the fonts

Every program I've tried works quite well with one or two quirks

Stick Soldiers 2 -need -ogl and -32 parameters
Soldat - ingame fonts are screwy, but loads up faster than in windows
Notepad2 - a menu bar doesn't work (just turn it off)
Desktop architect - crashes now and again

H_TeXMeX_H:

--- Quote from: cymon ---Fucking things up is how you learn. For instance, say you're trying to do something, I'm using Debian for an example because that's what I use, you're trying to add an APT repository. So you go and do nano sources.list and you screw it up. Big deal, that's fixable. But you can always reinstall, just don't do it again.
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I completely agree ... I've learned pretty much everything I know (about computers and many other things) by messing with stuff until I fuck it up ... and then trying to fix it ... and usually succeeding :D ... if not then reinstall :( ... but you learn a great deal in the process (I've never read a single manual ... ever ... I tried, but they're soooo fucking boring)

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