Posted on 08/17/2011 5:00:18 AM PDT by ShadowAce
I would add 'shouldnt have to' to your list.
I agree they shouldn’t have to.
Interesting. My experience is different. With my network-enabled printer, my linux box just sees it, installed the correct drivers, and can use it with no issues.
(And I hate the new Ubuntu desktop)
You and me both.
See, now there’s the problem.
It takes 3 seconds for you to say “update your video driver... yada yada yada”
Then the person listening decides he’d spend a half an hour or so and it should be EASY to upgrade the driver.
And then after he’s four days into the project and still doesn’t have it done, he’s pretty frosted. And I do not blame him at all. Linux is INCREDIBLY difficult to tweak.
I installed Knoppix on one of my laptops to boot from the hard drive. It would not recognize my wireless. I found all I had to do was make a simple change to one of the init parms,
But it WOULD NOT let me edit it! I had to create a copy, edit the copy, then try to copy it back.
But you can’t say COPY X Y, you have to use MOVE...
Now, I’m not a rookie either. I was my first computer about 1973 and have been working with them ever since. I’ve written a LOT of assembler code, and worked with Univacs, IBM’s, others.
I am a z/OS systems engineer now.
In all my years, the only thing I’ve seen as cryptic as Linux is some of the C derivatives.
With the latest Ubuntu, I was able to update my video driver from the desktop (once I figured out how to find the relocated system functions).
I hate the new desktop, but it did its job in this case.
What is the fake interop of Brand X? And what are the trade offs?
Well if it works for you great if not leave it alone is what I tell people. The backbone of the net what does it run on ReadHat centos an Oracle mainly and when they shoot them rockets in the air to travel to Mars Pluto Saturn do you think they trust Windows or Mac LMAO>> Mac now I know about Mac OS it is nothing but BSD with a modified kernel all reference to BSD and the BSD license is stripped out, dont belive it open the code in a hex editor and take and good gander at it!!
I have seen that as well. Linux is a great OS, and I admire Linus Torvalds for starting the Linux project. But a lot of Linux geeks are extremely selfish and self-centered. They live in a very small world.
When I have work to do, I use Windows, because that's what work uses.
When I am surfing the web or doing personal things, I use Ubuntu.
Keeps everything separate and if I pick up some security risk while surfing the web, it doesn't affect my Windows installation.
It’s comical in a way.
Like people who are hard-core into Dungeons and Dragons.
Teenage boys who have dreams of Elvira, Mistress of the Dark!
Remember, Linux is positively “BURSTING WITH FUNCTIONALITY”!!
It’s a very cloistered world.
They have yet to realize the capital that is peoples past experiences with various computers. Many times, I’ve seen on Linux boards someone would pose a question “Ho do I do Z??”
The Linux brain trust comes back and says “Why do you want to do that? You’d be much better off doing R”
The person asking the original question is bound to think “Well, I was just getting used to the idea that I might be able to get Z to work, and now they tell me I gotta use R? WTF?”
Linux probably does have the highest level of what someone might call the snobbery quotient to it. And that works very much against mass acceptance.
Nobody wants to be made to feel stupid just for asking a question.
Lol!!!
Hey, hang in there. Another four months of study and the Council might teach you the secret handshake!
I haven't heard anything but complaints about it.
No that isn’t a true statement. The best doesn’t always win. Microsoft Windows was not better than OS/2 from IBM. Far from it. M$ had better marketing (amongst other things).
I hate dealing with printers. The last few versions I haven't had to do much of anything to get them running. Webmin is your friend when dealing with a lot of the stuff that would otherwise have you hand-editing config files. It even makes sendmail easy.
Linux vs Windows is apples and oranges.
Windows has all the hardware support from the manufacturers and massive monopoly position that it can use to keep out opposition,whereas Linux is for more freedom-orientated individuals who want to customize their stuff.
The average windows and the average Linux user will both be pretty hopeless,but the experienced Linux user is a different species of computer animal than the experienced Windows user.
They're called 'Lusers'.
“Microsoft Windows was not better than OS/2 from IBM”
Microsoft is far far better than IBM. IBM never imagined there would be a PC on everyones desk.
Microsoft made a product which was easy to use and they made it easy to buy. Linux has developed over the years, but is difficult to use for the average person. We keep hearing about new desktop versions but they aren’t ready and probably never will be. There is not adequate financial incentive for companies to develop that product.
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