Why Linux works for some, and Windows works for others 168 plus 118

rapskat

Exactly.

You can say it's equivalent all you want, but we both know it's not.

How do you know only a small percent purchase Windows at retail? Why would all these retail stores keep 20 copies on the shelf at all times if nobody is buying it.

And whether they do or not, people still ignore Linux and go off and use the wonderland of apps and tools and games that makes Windows the place to be.

For instance, have you ever used Sisoft Sandra? It's a really nice suite of system analysers, diagnostic and benchmarking utilities. For Windows systems of course.

There's no version for Linux, because they couldn't have stayed in business under the OSS "development model."

I highly doubt there's anything even close to it in the feature-barren OSS world.

It's too stupid to respond to. It's Linux-OSS that is substandard software.

Well I'll be. One second ago you were calling me incompetent when it comes to Linux, now you're linimizing the slopware bugs I report.

So you can spell hypocrite with the best of them.

I can see what you threaten to say, but I can't see you actually saying it.

~-.chromium? I take it that's a config text file? LOL! You're kidding, right? I thought Linux was easy and convenient? That's what you were blabbing about in another thread.

If there was an on-screen option related to the CD, I might have found it. But there again, Linux foils me. Want to know how? Because the menu doesn't show up on my screen! When I launch Chromium, it looks like this:

Just a mysterious blue bar across the screen. No text. Every time. I got lucky and clicked around and found out when that bar is at the bottom of the screen, it's in Exit mode. At the top most position, it's in start mode. If you keyboard up and down, all I see is the bar, and sometimes the - and + signs which work to change the settings, but I can't ever see any menu text. I had to use XKill a couple times because of the slopware.

Now you'll tell me it's my mobo (Intel 865GLC), or my OpenGL supporting video card (ATI 9600) or some other lame-o excuse, when the real problem is, as usual, Linux.

It's both, of course. It's no big deal for me to do the same thing in Windows, but it's also an unrealistic example of OS usage.

My story is always straight: Linux walks a crooked line.

Not any moreso than we can say that your consistently smooth Linux experiences are typical.

Very, very rarely. Once every 6 months or so. But you said "constantly babied" which is more cola hokum. My Dad has a Windows98 machine at his office that's been running for years and has NEVER been defragged.