The downsides of Linux

[lazygamer]

WAIT! There's a problem. Even if I could make l33t bindz(macros) in Linux, what could I possibly think of to use this ability for?  

[Master of Reality]

quote:Originally posted by lazygamer:
I thought I should add that this is still a MS dominated world. So all of you Anti-microsoft dudes must still master Wind0ze boxes if you want to be a computer technician.

Just look at Wind0ze as giving you LOTS of business, while you secretly chuckle at being part of the l33t Linux underground organization as you remove the cover of some n00b's wind0ze box.    

Oh and XP didn't have 3D support for my Voodoo 3 2000 PCI drivers, luckily I could get some "custom made" drivers off the internet. Amergamlin something like that.

if people start learning to be l33t linux users, then businesses will start to realize how much the users can accomplish on Linux versus windows and start using Linux.

[lazygamer]

Definitly, im just saying that to get your foot in the door and SUCCEED at fixing most of your clients computers, you need your windows skillz.

Train both your skillz I suppose.

[rsd]

Actually, that is not the case (in my case).
I fix winblows boxen by installing linux on it. I mean, no traces of winblows... left, permanently.
The only exception is winblows running as virtual box under vmware on linux, thusly in safer environment... if someone needs legacy stuff.

The downside of linux is one that I see: the maze of dependencies. Someone has to come up with a better version management and some automated way to  fetch the needed dependencies, albeit mandrake software manager is doing a good job provided that the packages are d/l from their repository/mirrors (or from textar -- www.pclinuxonline.com).

It is rare that something will get stuck on deps, but it is nonetheless frustrating, especially after dilligently fetching the needed packages from rpmfind site or compiling sources, you'are still stuck because that library need another library that needs another library. Sometimes symlinking the version one has helps, though.

Beside that, after a bit more than one year running linux on my workstations, I would not go back to winblows even if they paid me.

As for server, I was using linux since 1996 and had about 4 reboots throughout that time, all kernel updates and one spontaneous shutdown -- fortunately the server is setup to autoboot after 15 minutes. Happened at 3 am so no one of my clients noticed.

[Chooco]

my real reasons for not liking Linux
-i can't play Half-Life (well technically i CAN install it but i couldn't get it OpenGL mode to work through WineX, i put WinXP back before i even asked for help because i'm impatient). this is a pretty lame reason though so disregard it

-KDE is pretty laggy so it's not the greatest for running any kind of game or server. this always is pretty lame reason since you can push ctrl+alt+(F key) to run console and X server at the same time so you can run servers and games or whatever in the console and when yer done screwin around ya can just close KDE and it wont affect the servers or game or whatever

so basically the only reasons are that i'm impatient, i hate to read and i want results and i want them now. if Half-Life worked on Half-Life as a non-need-to-be-emulated game i would switch in less than a second.
MySQL is also a bit of a bitch to use because i don't know how to setup a new user and i hate reading.
another thing is how it's hard to unintall stuff, say you accidentaly installed something without --prefix = (wherever) and you don't know where it went. that's a bummer.

[rsd]

> you accidentaly installed something without --prefix = (wherever) and you don't know where it went. that's a bummer

# locate whatever
# whereis whatever

or simply check the INSTALL and README files for the default location.

For rpm's
# rpm --help

[lazygamer]

OH NO! Im getting a tad nervous. People are mentioning "interdependicies" and "poor GUI performance".

Hopefully Choco just has hardware that isn't as good as mine, and it's not KDE's fault. I have 433 celeron, 384mb ram, and a voodoo 3 2000 PCI. How do you measure up Choco?

About these scary interdepndicies, can't I just pop on Mandrake and mess around with it some to get used to it/learn it?  Surely im safe from this terrifying concept that I do not fully understand.  

[HPC GUY]

from previous mentions

i hate using the console to do stuff, but thats just me.

Gnome never seems to work right for me. at my workstation the bottom navigation bar seems to have disappeared, making it a complete pain in the ass. so i used kde instead.

[voidmain]

What a bunch of whiners (especially Choochoo, I'm getting pretty fed up with his lameness).  "I don't like this because I don't know how to... but I am too lazy to read....". Stick with Windows then, and stick to the Windows forums.