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- rydawg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Darn, I was going to post this. You beat me to it.
Funny article if you have the patience to read it. It's very tongue-in-cheek, and covers a lot of the shortcomings of Microsoft Windows(Registered Trademark) people have grown so used to, they don't know any better. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1lmao thats a great article ++digg lol
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Very funny. Someone should clean it up a bit though. Very poor grammar and spelling.
- tadelste, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Very funny. Someone should clean it up a bit though. Very poor grammar and spelling.
He's European and English is a second language. Gotta let that accent through. - mancat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I understand it's a joke, but there's a lot of misinformation here. Whether or not it was intentional? Who knows. Linux zealots sometimes tend to go on rants without knowing what they're talking about. Same thing with any other zealot.
- alterself, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1this is hilarious...take time to read it :)
- TonyMurray, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It was really funny! I was also going to post it, guess I'll just digg it instead ;)
- xiongjiezeng, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0excellent post, i digg, we need more articles like these :)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0+DIGG
Lol, Virusus :) - mancat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Back up your data from your Microsoft OS drive and download and install Mandriva 2006 and get on with your life.
Firefox
OpenOffice
Thunderbird
Eclipse"
And that's about it. - ketsugi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Pretty funny read though not necessarily accurate; I would expect any seasoned Linux user to know that NTFS is better than FAT (even if not necessarily better than ext2/3/reiser/whatever), to know how to mount drives as folders in XP, to know how to use hard links and shortcuts properly in XP, and so on.
If you have the patience to figure out Linux (as it stands now, most Linux distros don't exactly provide a very gentle learning curve either), you probably have the patience to figure out XP's idiosyncracies as well. - zagi1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0excellent post, i digg, we need more articles like these :)
- gauntalus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm a huge gentoo fan... but that article just wasn't that great. no digg
- skater2968, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0now we need the linux to mac story. Loved the article. earned a digg
- neocitron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0lol owned!!!
go Open source!!!
go OS X
go Linux
go Unix - pacdude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm a recent convert from Windows to Mac, and the problems with spyware only affect the general populous at large, not the smart and suave surfers.
Therein lies the problem. If you're going to reach out to the masses, take some precautions to shield the masses. All my friends with their spyware problems could be fixed if they converted to Mac.
Then again, they could stop being stupid, but we all know that won't happen. - krutadal, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1My god, that's one of the least funny and most trollish articles I've read in a long time. I honestly read through the entire thing without even cracking a smile. "OMG WINDOW$ SUXXX0RS BCUZ IF U R ASKT TO INSTAL SOFTWEAR AN PUHS YEZ IT WILL PWN YOU WIT SPYWEAR LOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!1111oneone"
I use Windows and Linux about 50/50, with some Solaris and IRIX thrown in for the more serious stuff, and if you use Windows responsibly, it won't bite you (haven't had any spyware "own" my computer, well, ever). If you run Linux as root (which is about as smart as running Windows as Administrator), and have the computer knowhow of your average script kiddie, then anything targeting Linux will have the same chance of taking over your computer as something targeting Windows. Of course, there's very little targeting desktop Linux, both because of the smaller market share, but also the generally higher competance of its users, as well as the greater software base variance on Linux (many different distros, browsers, UIs, etc..)
Installing Windows: Last time I did this, I had to answer about three dialogs, with the whole process (sans updating) taking about an hour and one reboot. I started a kernel compilation a few years ago, and it's probably still running.
Installing new software: Yes, haha, there's alot of expensive software on Windows. Newsflash: OpenOffice also exists on Windows, as does free variants of most software. Just because it isn't on one of the five or six CD-ROMS (which seems to be average for a Linux distro nowadays) doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. And the lack of MD5 checksums is, of course, Microsoft's fault, and not something the developers don't care about (and for that matter, error checking is a part of most installers).
Configuration: Yes, haha, going through a variety of GUI boxes to configure your "boxen" is soooo lame.
Softlinks exists. And what the hell is the thing about FIRST complaining that GOING THROUGH FOLDERS CAN MAKE YOU END UP BACK WHERE YOU STARTED, and THEM COMPLAINING ABOUT THE LACK OF SOFTLINKS?
Mounts can be changed. And the last Linux I installed also happened to mount all my drives for me automatically.
And obviously, buffer overflows are also blamed on Microsoft. Of course, this never happens in Linux, because all software developed for Linux has this Magic Buffer Protection (MBP) that redirects all faulty calls to /dev/null.
Blah. Blah. Blah. - echimu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Hee funny
- terafunker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Any XP users want to write the reply? You know, XP user attempting to setup Linux?
Let us all convert to UNIX-based systems, for then the world will be a more stable place. - antiwmac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0haha!
great story! - Maverick83, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"now we need the linux to mac story"
Yes, yes we do.
Coming from solid XP use for a couple of years, I got to know it pretty well.
Now that I've made Linux my home, I realize that there are a lot of simple and powerful things that XP can't do, but are built right in to Linux/GNU.
I love it a little more every day. - barbobot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Some dumb ***** can't install Windows in an hour like any moron can so he blames in on Microsoft and thisis funny? And someone complaining about paying for a product is funny?"
Maybe you missed the last couple years of windows users saying the same things. - nolanistic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This has swayed me, I'm erasing my windows partition and installing mandriva, per the request of one of the above posters.
Wish me luck! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Viruses
Spyware
Registry Problems
What a joke of a system.
Back up your data from your Microsoft OS drive and download and install Mandriva 2006 and get on with your life.
Firefox
OpenOffice
Thunderbird
Eclipse
Microsoft OSes are technological dead ends. Open source unix implementations like Linux are the future of computing systems. Switch now. Or switch later. - tdyer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0lame. no digg for you.
- jmz668, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Funny amusing or funny hard to read? Seems to be the latter.
- kday, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0mikeweller ~
People just want something to rant about. They feel hip, cool, and rebellious in their own little nerdy way, and like to brag about it.
As an owner of both Mac and PC, the truth is, my XP box is just as stable as as my Mac, and hasn't randomly restarted... ever. Hard crashes in XP are most likely hardware problems. Of course, there are spyware and virus problems, but as long as you are running a good software firewall (Sygate Personal Firewall Pro 5.5), a good anti-virus system (Nod 32), and using Firefox in place of IE, suddenly all of your problems will disappear.
For those who claim that Macs don't crash, I periodically get Kernel panics with OS X 10.4.3. However, this could be hardware related, I'm not sure. Maybe the RAM. OS X.4 is a more solid operating system and infinitive more secure out of the box (e.g. use of Permissions) than XP.
In the end, these operating systems generally do the same thing, and they both do it relatively well. As long as they are secure, then they won't have any problems.
I'm also sick of this anti-windows BS also. MS is a big, greedy company... yes, I understand that. But please, stop complaining about things that aren't even true. - MikeWeller, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I'm sorry but most of the anti-windows stuff is *****. The constant joke about rebooting just isn't funny - Office can be installed in about 30 minutes without a reboot, not "the next three hours, reboot a few times" etc etc bla bla
- kday, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Damn Linux Zealots thinking their toy OS is the best. Unfortunately, the only OS that we can actually do real work on is OS X and Windows. Just the truth. I do graphic/web design, and without Adobe/Macromedia package, it would be very hard to work. "Rebelling" will just make you unproductive. If you plan on sitting in your mothers basement the rest of your life decrypting WEP keys, don't mind buggy graphics software (Gimp) and a Word processor that can only format text correctly half the time (OpenOffice), then Linux/Unix is for you.
Now I'm not saying Linux/Unix sucks by any means. Linux and Unix work great as server OS's. I have been using ClarkConnect (Linux Router) as my router /file server for several years. Linux just isn't good for Desktop use.... yet. Don't let this guy fool you
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