education.zdnet.com — “I really like Ubuntu…it’s very intuitive and I was able to do everything I needed to do today with no problem. Everything seems to be faster, too. You can leave this one on my computer.” This is high praise indeed from a neo-Luddite who finds nothing intuitive about computers.
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Closed AccountOct 25, 2008
You ever fart and then it smells the entire room up and you wonder wtf you ate to have such a smell... Then you realize it was this dudes wifes ubuntu that you ate.
wolferzOct 25, 2008
@SpeedSteamBoat"The installer is friendlier and easier than Windows."The windows installer is more intuitive... why? Cause end users don't have to use it. No wait. I know that this isn't under the direct control of linux and various distro devs... but the end user doesn't care aobut that. They want it to just work. Learning about partitions and boot loaders is not something the average user has time for. Do they need to do the same under Windows? No. Cause as I said that is already taken care of for them."The vast majority of hardware works "out of the box" without making you mess around downloading or, even worse, installing drivers off a disk."only 4 of the 7 buttons on my mouse (from the relatively unheard of mouse manufacturer "Logitech") works under x.org. They are no longer programmable. I can not control the dpi setting for my mouse (a feature specific to my mouse). I can not adjust the report rate at which the wireless signal works. I can not monitor battery power in the software. But yeah... it works... in that my $100 gaming mouse now functions exactly like a $5 dollar mouse from the flee marketSame story for my keyboard (programmable keys and lcd display disabled). Same story for my sound card (can't use optical output or activate the real-time dts encoding feature for my surround speaker setup). The light scribe feature of my DVD-RW drive is unusable. The card readers on the front of my case are not supported at all. Lets see... oh my printer prints but at half the normal quality and tends to use much more ink... and can't be shared on the network (and it took me 2 days to get it working *that* well). My raid array (nvraid) operates with a huge performance hit. and i think thats it... for my desktop. My laptop and the community desktop I keep in the living room for friends to use is a whole nother list of problems."Finding, installing, and removing software is as strait forward as it gets."uhm... only if it is in the package manager. If it isn't then installing it is a round about process that is FAR too complicated for the average user to figure out. And finding? That depends if there is even an alternative available. Right now there is no photoshop alternative on Linux (if you think gimp counts then your ether blind or a complete f**king retard... and gimps interface is itself a case and point for just how unintuitive open source interfaces often are.) and the only office alternative that is worth a damn STILL doesn't support the new office file formats... rendering it useless.And don't mention wine. The point of using linux is supposed to be increased stability and performance... two things wine does the exact opposite of."The system notifies you of updates and installs them with as much ease as any Windows system since XP, and likely more considering the crap MS sometimes likes to slip into their recommended updates bundles (IE7? Yeah.)"When I was updating form hardy to gutsy ubuntu actually asked me what services had to be stopped before it updated a different service... something to do with APM. You know... I've been a computer tech for 10+ years and have fixed in the order of 10,000 computers and I still don't have the processes from windows memorized... much less their dependencies. And the ones under windows actually have names that are descriptive... as apposed to "apmldm" and what not. If *I* can't be expected to know what services have to be stopped the average user CERTAINLY can't. Even better is that I wasn't actually given any options... just a empty text box for me to type the names of the services I wanted it to stop and I was supposed to separate each by a comma. I hit enter to accept the defaults knowing full well it would bork my system just cause I wanted to be absolutely sure I was right. I was. Ubuntu wouldn't boot after that."Now, the reason that a lot of techie types love Linux is because there is a lot of really cool stuff that can be done with it if you are willing to put some time into learning how things work, however that technical side isn't something I believe you MUST learn in order to simply use the system. I would argue that, from the average e-mail checking, web browsing, average computer patron perspective, Linux is extremely intuitive. I'd feel confident in saying that Ubuntu is easier to pick-up and use than even XP and of course Vista is just outright. (I mean that about Vista strictly from a perspective of overall usability, not from a technical standpoint.)"Well at least you admit that it's an opinion. That puts earns you a lot more respect than many of these other jokers get. I disagree with every single thing you said (except about it drawing techies and why) but, *shrug*, that's my opinion.@daengbohmm... a reasonable argument. I'll have to give it some thought.
din100Oct 26, 2008
OMG !!!! Linux user have a wife wow this is the 1st :D
Closed AccountOct 27, 2008
OMG WOMEN CAN USE UBUNTU. You're an ass.
Closed AccountOct 27, 2008
who cares? His wife should probably like sucking his neighbours dick every day. Why is this news?
macoafiOct 28, 2008
Who uses Yahoo IM anyway?