Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on February 26, 2006 04:53 PM
You guys are WAY overplaying the "Linux is the savior" routine. Their are many varieties of Linux that are great operating systems; being free makes them even better. I love open-source software just as much as the next guy, but your verbal fellatio toward Linux is just a little much.
Why don't you be less dramatic and just say that Linux runs well. I have been through about 10 different Linux distros - Slackware, Debian, Ubuntu, Mandriva, Fedora, etc. While I have found them all to be great, nome of them is as great as you claim. I have run dual-boot and new machines side-by-side with Windows and Linux. I have never been blown away by Linux. I have used, setup, and repaired thousands of machines and various OSes, and I have to say that your claims are bogus.
I would pay for your plane ticket for you to come out here and show me a 300mhz machine that could keep up with even my fairly older Windows boxes.
Everyone knows that Windows is far from perfect, but don't bullshit us all by making your outrageous claims. Pound-for-pound, Linux is a better OS than Windows, but it can't move mountains with its barehands. Just tone down your Linux-spawned enthusiasm.
In response to someone else's post, I speak two languages. I'm not really sure how that applies to anything.
In summation, how your system runs doesn't have that much to do with what software you are running, and to some extent what hardware. If you treat your system like dirt, it will run that way. I have seen Windows 2k3 servers run flawlessly for a year straight, and I've seen a Linux smoothwall box get a virus after a few months. It really just depends on how you take care of what you have. There are hundreds of widely-used programs, and games that won't even run on boxes you are talking about. Sell your bullshit to people who don't know any better.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on February 26, 2006 04:53 PMWhy don't you be less dramatic and just say that Linux runs well. I have been through about 10 different Linux distros - Slackware, Debian, Ubuntu, Mandriva, Fedora, etc. While I have found them all to be great, nome of them is as great as you claim. I have run dual-boot and new machines side-by-side with Windows and Linux. I have never been blown away by Linux. I have used, setup, and repaired thousands of machines and various OSes, and I have to say that your claims are bogus.
I would pay for your plane ticket for you to come out here and show me a 300mhz machine that could keep up with even my fairly older Windows boxes.
Everyone knows that Windows is far from perfect, but don't bullshit us all by making your outrageous claims. Pound-for-pound, Linux is a better OS than Windows, but it can't move mountains with its barehands. Just tone down your Linux-spawned enthusiasm.
In response to someone else's post, I speak two languages. I'm not really sure how that applies to anything.
In summation, how your system runs doesn't have that much to do with what software you are running, and to some extent what hardware. If you treat your system like dirt, it will run that way. I have seen Windows 2k3 servers run flawlessly for a year straight, and I've seen a Linux smoothwall box get a virus after a few months. It really just depends on how you take care of what you have. There are hundreds of widely-used programs, and games that won't even run on boxes you are talking about. Sell your bullshit to people who don't know any better.
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