[Osiris]

Ten things a Linux Fanboy will not tell you…


Yes, everyone has a friend who is a Linux Fanboy; he keep saying as a slogans dispenser:
“Linux is good, Linux is stable, Linux is cool”, but there is a dark side…
If you will install Linux:
10) You will lose all your athletic abilities
09) You new God will be Linus Torvalds and He request to burn [in flames] a copy of Windows every first Monday of April at Midnight
08) You will sell your High-End, Uber-Powered PC to buy an 8088 machine because “Linux don’t need a fast computer!”
07) You will stay 10 hours a day on the web writing phrases like: “Microsoft is the Devil”, “Linux is free as in beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer”
06) You will be fired because OpenOffice will not open your Boss’s presentation during an Intergalactic meeting
05) You will lose 10 days of your life to configure Wine just to play a game which under Windows requested 2 clicks and yes, it will lose frames.
04) You will try 10^10 Linux distributions and in the meantime you will use Windows to have some work done
03) You will buy again your High-End PC spending 10 times more because you have installed Gentoo and you need to recompile all-the-sources-in-the-universe
02) Your electricity bill will jump to new highs because you can’t be owned by that guy on irc on uptime!
01) After 5 years without a real-life you will understand that BSDs are better!

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[zmatt]

haha lol. scary, but in a way based partially on truth.

[CalcProgrammer1]

I use one distro only: Ubuntu...well, except for DSL and Puppy on old Pentium 1 machines (and no, I didn't dump my nice PC for them, I just added to my collection )

I took about 10 minutes installing Wine the first time, these days it takes me about a minute (sudo apt-get install wine anyone?) and on my nVidia card, it actually IMPROVED framerate, sometimes by 300 percent on my old geForce4.

I'm writing a book report right now for school. Guess what? It's MS DOC format, and I'm editing it perfectly fine in OpenOffice. I also use OpenOffice almost daily for schoolwork: .doc, .xls, .ppt, and other formats open without a problem.

#10: like I had athletic abilities to begin with? Windows or Linux, I'll be on the computer.

#9: good idea, but wasting $200 a week on Windows discs is quite a waste

#8: Linux don't run on a P133 Laptop with 640x480 screen and 16MB RAM (least not with GUI), so I highly question the truth of that.

#7: Umm...yeah..."beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer"...Linux doesn't make you drunk though.

#3: Gentoo? lol...Ubuntu distributes binary packages so no more stupid recompiling

I seriously just switched from Windows 2000 (laptop) and Windows XP Home (desktop) as my main OS to Ubuntu 7.04 on both (dual boot). I haven't used Windows for a week and I have no intentions of going back. I can play my Windows games in Wine without the slightest problem, listen to music on a great media player (VLC), enjoy seemingly better soundcard drivers (idk why, but bass response seems better in Linux than Windows), and use the awesome Beryl effects ($200 for Vista?...that's insane, considering it doesn't work). I know Windows (at least XP and 2000, not Vista) are quality products, and for years I was anti-Linux. One day I happened upon a website Ubuntu Home Page | Ubuntu, liked the interface, tried the LiveCD, and now I'm never leaving Ubuntu out of my latest PC. Meanwhile, Microsoft lowers quality from XP, which ran apps great, to Vista, which crashes on quite a few of my games and apps.

[zmatt]

personally i hate ubuntu, i think it has more to do with the fact i don't like Gnome. I'm a KDE or E17 kind of guy. And linux can play many windows games through WINE but i don't think it has DX9 support yet let alone DX10.

[CalcProgrammer1]

GNOME is awesome, and good developers use OpenGL not DirectX, making their games compatable with WINE

[macdude425]

Meh, GNOME gives me FC hallunications. No thanks.

Still, OpenGL doesn't reign merely because of the market industry clout M$ has - and that needs to change.

[zmatt]

we all know thta. but i think its pretty biased to say one is better than the other. obviously i favor OpenGL and if you support DX actively you are part of the problem, but as far as good games go and the power of the API neither is superior.

[CalcProgrammer1]

They're both good in terms of their functions, but OpenGL wins because it is supported on Windows, Linux, Mac, etc. Microsoft needs to realize that they don't own the industry, that they only own Windows. The computer industry is a place where no one company can rule, and there will always be opponents. Microsoft also needs to realize that with Linux and other systems becoming more stable all the time, that their OS needs to remain stable, which they've poorly failed.

You say "10 hours configuring Wine to run Windows games?" I say, maybe 2 clicks in the (OUTDATED!) XP, but about 20 clicks (allow or deny?) plus a bunch of pointless reinstalls when Vista decides not to run your old XP-era application after it worked the first time.

Well, there's gotta be a balance somewhere, as Microsoft goes down, Linux and alternative OS'es go up. XP was actually sort of nice, but Vista is just killing it.

[zmatt]

I agree that Directx is a bad thing for the industry and the government tried to break M$ up in the 90's for violation of anti trust laws, do i think they broke the law? **** yes but there is little i can do, and until linux, macos and the other OSs out there can come up with an alternative that is so much better than DX that using Dx would be stupid, Windows will have one huge redeeming quality that the others cant overcome.

In short until i can get Counter strike Source to run seamlessly under linux the general public will not fully accept it.

I think however Linux has made huge inroads in a market that has been historically a windows dominated market. What linux needs now is ease of use and out fo the box usability. None of this I have to download extra stuff to play MP3s because of licensing, or the default install lacks WiFi support. if the Linux community wants to become a powerful mainstream force the bigger distros need to drop the Geek factor and think more about how grandpa will check his email, and how 6 year old sally will listen to her backstreet boys cd.

Although i personally dont use ubuntu that much due to personal OS preference i think they are a great example of what the Community on the whole needs, Im not saying we cant have our slackware's and Knoppix's out there, but Linux needs a new image, one of professionalism, ease of use, and mainstream appeal. Not one of 30 year old geek in his mom's basement hacking the white house.

[FlashDude]

Originally Posted by zmatt

personally i hate ubuntu, i think it has more to do with the fact i don't like Gnome. I'm a KDE or E17 kind of guy. And linux can play many windows games through WINE but i don't think it has DX9 support yet let alone DX10.

Well If you don't like Gnome, then try Xubuntu or Kubuntu