Linux. It's all about LIES AND DENIAL. 4607

The Homo K

Heres a number for you: 60,000. Guess what that number is? It's the number of viruses, worms, and trojans available (for no extra charge, I might add!) for the windoze platform.

Here's another number: 6. Guess what that number is? The number of worms, viruses, and trojans available for the Linux platform.

Want some more numbers? Okay, 400. That's the $sss it takes to buy WinXP pro and load it up with (not-so)useful, bug-ridden, copyright-laden, restrictive, closed-source and expensive win32 software. That's 400 more dollars than it takes to download a VERY good linux OS (debian, gentoo,

etc) and load it up with Free (as in speech, and usually as in beer too!), quality, easy to use, fast, and generally bug-free software.

And as for the Windoze testimonials, they are obviously an unsuccessful

attempt at discrediting linux. It is a commonly known fact that while Firefox may be fairly slow on windoze, it is fairly fast on linux. The only reason why IE starts up so fast is because it starts up when you boot up your computer, in a sense. It is so integrated (sp? sorry!) into the operating system that any attempt to remove it will do everything short of deleting your hard drive. This leads to many, many security concerns. So many, in fact, that I would rather have a browser that starts up in (*gasp!*) 10s then a broken, buggy, closed-source one that

starts up in 5s. Every distro I have tried so far is significantly faster than windoze by default (that is, no extra configuration required) that you won't even have to configure anything by yourself unless you want a computer so fast that it scares you.

As for 40k mp3s, I wonder how many of them are Barney-Muppets theme songs that he likes to listen to while he takes his afternoon nap and sips his cool-aid?

And DSL speed has nothing to do with your operating system, it has to do with your ISP. Everyone knows that. And even *if* windoze *might* be faster then linux on the web (which, of course, is not true *AT ALL*), wouldn't you have an OS that will *never* get a virus rather then one that has to be updated *daily* because of exploits, and never seems to get fixed? No doubt the windoze "updates" you're downloading are actually Microsoft's first attempts to bring so-called "trusted computing" (if you're not familliar with the term, it basically means that M$ will force you to buy their products, the music industry won't let you listen to your favorite songs more than three times without paying for them, and basically invades your privacy) to your computer.

Oh, yeah, it's not "Mandrivial". It's "Mandrivia". Would you trust somebody who can't spell more then 1-3 his words correctly?

To give this troller a small (and I mean *very* small) amount of credit, linux has a few insignificant problems. One of them being that modem companies like giving M$ blowjobs so much that they make software drivers that are M$ only compatible. This means that if you have dialup, there's a small (and I mean *small*) chance that your modem won't work with linux (see note at bottom of post). This has been fixed, however, by the very hardworking people who work to bring modem drivers to linux

companies who refuse to release the source code for their drivers so some very nice people can port it to linux. DON'T LET THIS TURN YOU OFF! Linux compatible modems (if yours doesn't have linux drivers already) can be obtained for VERY CHEAP! $30-40 AT THE MAXIMUM! $10-15 if you know where to look!

And as for Linux not being user friendly (okay, so you didn't say anything about that, but I just want to clear up a pet peeve), that is bullcrap as well. Linux is user friendly, just not IDIOT and RETARD friendly like Windoze is. Yes, Linux users have to have a slight clue about what they are doing to do something. If a user can't type in a couple commands at the bash prompt then they should be using Mac OS X (which is, by the way, UNIX based). If you can run windoze, you can run

linux. The terminology and techniques are just a tad bit different, that's all. Hey, ever heard the acronym RTFM? It stands for Read The Fricking Manual (The unpolite part has been replaced with slightly more

kid friendly terminology so "Homo K"'s mom doesn't get offended). There

is documentation in plain sight, the only difference between it and the

windoze documentation is that it doesn't come out and whack you on the head like the windoze documentation does.

So long, and thanks for letting me rant (perhaps the longest reply to this topic yet).

Note: The small modem problem is why I am posting this from (*gasp*) windoze. My parents (yes, I am still living at home) are too cheap to get broadband, and they wouldn't let me delete their favorite OS (windoze, if you hadn't guessed), and I am currently unemployed (I'm old enough to get a job, it's just that I have better things to do in my spare time then work).