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I asked Kuros why linux sucks. Maybe he had other reasons that actually pertained to Linux as a whole(all distros…which would have to include Ubuntu), not “most distros” like you said. You just told me it was hard to install flash on a Linux box, I showed you that it wasn’t.
I’m not sure I’m the best Linux posterboy, but these guys have some solid reasons. The main reason that I think it’s better is because it’s free. The second being that you can do 90% of what you can do on a windows/mac on a Linux box. Your grandmother could most likely do 100% of what she does on her windows machine on a linux box. With multiple desktops, Linux can be more productive.
Bitey said:
#1 reason I don’t like it is we cannot use it for any of our gaming servers, period.Actually we can, but considering I can do just about anything with .cmd that you can with the terminal, Linux is useless to me. Windows can do anything I need that Linux can and more. It’s all about compatibility and Linux is only half *edited*. I’d rather be able to do it all natively than half native and half emulated.
The entire ITT network is run by windows 2k3 server, if we ran our servers on linux it wouldn’t work properly I thought that was the issue..
subzero said:
hmm Why not just use Linux? You can play your windows games (albeit slower) and find plenty of software to do all the tasks you do in Windows/OSX. Personally, I dual boot between Ubuntu (the most popular “flavor” of linux) and Windows. Linux has all the stability and sleekness of OSX and I use windows to play CS. Linux also is free. I would encourage anyone who is contemplating buying a desktop mac (I say a desktop because they are pretty much the same as a windows computer, where as mac laptops are far superior to windows laptops) to look into Ubuntu to start dabbling around with linux. I would also encourage anyone who is even semi computer savvy to look into Ubuntu.If you need any help getting started catch me on AIM: Happyappy10
Linux ftw. And windows games are only slowing if you use an emulator like Wine, and not a native installer like Crossover.
Well, Crossover costs $$ and I try to keep my linux free. But true, you can install games in crossover and they work just fine.
Kuros, I understand where you are coming from on the compatibility issue. Would you consider running linux if everything worked seamlessly in linux as it does in windows…haha, well windows never runs seamlessly, but that’s a different story. I can listen to music, install drivers, write papers, and everyday things in linux. The main problem is when it comes to specialized utilities for things like syncing with a phone and such. This is just because the manufacturers and software designers don’t see a need to port their programs to linux, but hopefully as linux gets more popular, they will.
woot dell : http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopi…;l=en&s=dhs
and even wal-mart is going to/has already started selling linux boxes
subzero said:
Would you consider running linux if everything worked seamlessly in linux as it does in windowsIf everything ran seamless in Linux, Microsoft would be forced to make Windows more competitive. This is not the case. I have never once had to reboot my machine in the past year running Windows Vista, with the sole exception of Windows Updates. People cry this crap about how Linux is more stable than Windows blah blah and that’s a bunch of bull*edited*. As long as you don’t go downloading retarded *edited* like zomg.exe, Windows will stay virtually virus free. And if you think that Linux/Mac can’t get Malware, you are dead wrong. Nickname will sure as hell back me up on that. We have to fix these pieces of junk at our job.
The great thing is we can at least fix the windows computers that get viruses; if your Mac gets a virus, you’re SOL (reformat time…)
All in all, the whole Windows
PersonA thinks Windows > PersonB while PersonC thinks MacOSX > Windows && > Linux.
Everyone has preferences and all this boils down to is preference.
nickname said:
well Microsoft already won, so we know who is right
I got $371.3 billion on Microsoft.
ZAattackCH@WCU said:
mac the retarded gaming computer < Alienware with the cool alien head lol not reallyAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ALIENWARE HE SAYS!!! The correct answer would be “A computer that I built myself not a computer where you pay 2-3x as much just for the name even thought it’s really a Dell.”
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