Operating Systems > Linux and UNIX
Linux 4 newbies
pofnlice:
you should have said windows is expensive, especially when your time is.
H_TeXMeX_H:
Whatever man, some Linux distros are actually much easier to administer than any Window$ piece of shit.
mobrien_12:
Exactly.
There's this whole myth thing going on that Linux takes a lot of time to use. The only time it takes a lot of time is when I need to compile some oddball program that has a bucketload of dependencies and I have to compile all the dependencies. You know what? I don't find that to be an issue anymore.
With yum, I can get almost any package I want pre-compiled, and it pulls the dependencies for me automatically. If there's a program I want to compile that isn't pre-packaged, like workrave, suprise, I found all the dependency libraries already built for me and ready to download with yum.
Windows, however, wastes a lot of time. Crashes, endless reboots, patching all the damn time, system instabilities, frustrations, hitting ctrl-alt-delete all the time.
Then there's other stupid shit. Yeah... I like waiting 5-10 minutes for a 2 GHz machine running windows XP to shut down/reboot when a linux box on a 450 MHz Celeron will shut down in a fraction of the time.
And that's just the intrinsic suckitude of the OS. Put on antivirus/antispyware software and watch your cpu power get sucked away to maintain this POS OS. Get a virus or spyware infection anyway and your PC slows to a crawl.
Pathos:
Hmmm, I have spent hours and hours learning linux .. well gnu really...
but people don't realize how many hours it took to learn windows and expect a instant transition. And then they try do things that they don't do on windows...get wifi/Ati gfx working when the manufacturer doesn't support the OS.
I prefer linux for administration (well ubuntu at least so far)
I don't have Crashes, reboots, patching, instability, or frustrations on windows XP btw (except when the belkin driver was crashing).
That 5-10 minutes to shutdown
H_TeXMeX_H:
Exactly, it took me what 1 month to learn most of the Linux basics, but it took me several years to learn how to keep Window$ alive for max 2 years, after which you gotta reinstall ... cuz it FUCKS ITSELF OVER !!! And it gives you a headache all the while.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version