Comments on: Five reasons you should switch to Linux right now

By: alexk232

alexk232 — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:57:38 +0000

Well, I cant answer for “me”, but the fact that developers don’t make games for the linux platform seems like a pretty logical excuse to use Windows to me, especially if you’re a pc gamer.

Besides, I haven’t had a bluescreen on my computer in at least 5 years, if not more.

By: factotum218

factotum218 — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:17:56 +0000

Apple at work, Vista at home, Debian on the go. Trouble free for me. But of course your mileage may vary, depending on your habits.

By: syn

syn — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:13:25 +0000

“What games can you play on Linux?, not very many!
Windows 7 is much better then Linux!”

I literally lol’d at this post.

How many games can YOU play on your Blue Screen of Death?

Having games doesn’t mean your Windows 7 is better than my Fedora 11. It just means more companies put out software for your crappy OS. That would be the logical fallacy of ignoratio elenchi.

Let’s have logical discussions that actually make sense, mmm?

By: Shannon VanWagner

Shannon VanWagner — Mon, 18 May 2009 13:57:36 +0000

Great post! I dugg it here:
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Five_reasons_you_should_switch_to_Linux_right_now

I’ve been using GNU/Linux at home and at work for nearly two years now and it’s been a very rewarding experience indeed.

I was at the store with my Son the other day and we saw some people poring over an “antivirus” solution software — it was very funny (but sad), we just looked at each other with that quizzical look..

Go GNU/Linux, Freedom Rocks!

Also checkout http://getgnulinux.org

Cheers!

Shannon VanWagner
humans enabled

By: web design studio

web design studio — Tue, 05 May 2009 16:44:53 +0000

Well judging from the comments, looks like it’s not a good idea for me to install linux.

By: mule

mule — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 03:51:05 +0000

jack, i’m building a vm with kubuntu 8.10. will see how it goes.

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By: bob

bob — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:47:59 +0000

Linux for server = Good Idea
Linux for home use = Bad Idea

By: eRIZ

eRIZ — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:50:43 +0000

I don’t know, what did you mean about viruses. I’m using Windows XP with WU disabled, only SP2 and I never had any virus yet (periodically checked by online scanners).

Why I won’t use PC on my desktop?
- GTK/QT problems
- wasting HDD space because of dependencies
- lack of support for eg. Pentagram Quadpen without (re)compilling N-libraries
- dependency, dependency and once again – dependency – I’m taking one .exe on Windows and there are 99% chances the app I found would start without problems. Linux? “install lib A, lib B, lib C” which I won’t ever use… 90 KiB app and 900 MiB of libraries, blah…

Thank you, Linux, you’re good… but on the servers.

By: Anders

Anders — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:03:36 +0000

Reason why I don’t want to switch (in order of priority):

1. I play a lot of games on my spare time. Linux has very few.
2. I have lots and lots of purchased software that run on Windows e.g. Acronis, Corel Draw etc.
3. At my work I use Windows so having it at home is convenient
4. Sorry but I find MS Office 2007 superior to OpenOffice, I have grown fond of Visio and OneNote.
5. I actually like Visual Studio as a programming environment, I don’t want to install 5 OSS projects instead and still not have all the functionality from VS.
6. I haven’t had a virus on my PC for several years, I have antivirus software and a firewall in the router. I don’t download random stuff from the internet.

I really see no added value using Linux, at least in my case.

By: maka

maka — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 07:38:24 +0000

Hey Rush…
The idiots you talk about is your mother, your father, the surgeon that will save your ass or your future daughter ass, the fire-man that takes you out of a pile of debris after an heartquake or the soldier taking bullets to evacuate civilians from an invaded country.

Not every one can sit in front of a monitor playing with apps all day long like me and you.

Stand up, go to the fridge and open it. If you find things in it is because there are millions of people around you that have no time to look at blinking dots of light changing color in front of a monitor (even if you order food via the internet).

Good luck man. Because if you are right and every-one else that need intuitive easy-guiding OS are Idiots I hope it does not apply to your surgeon. I would not imagine what he would do to you on the operation table if he end-up spending the previous night fighting with a Linux installation.

By: maka

maka — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 07:13:13 +0000

No matter how many times I try to install Linux, year after year, version after version, it is always the same. There is always something hanging, something freezing from basic stuff, even running FireFox (and I am talking about the latest Ubuntu).
Weakness and instability is part of the package. There is a current of thought about Linux users that are exited about which is the latest most stable version between releases, while in other OS like Apple OS, user get exited about new features.

Large corporation do not always get the best people to work on their products and their concern to ship to market makes them more vulnerable to committing good software. But they are accountable and the profit and market shares make them even more accountable (Microsoft vs Apple). Linux is not competition is a play ground environment for geeks.

Do not get me wrong, I have lots of respect in OpenSource programmers. They really rock. But Linux is an excellent platform for Universities and that is about it.

What is worst is that Linux evangelists try to sell you the platform as the best product ever and when it crashes they said to you: “What do you expect, it is free!”

It is not a professional service and it cannot be. BeOS was a much better attempt to make an alternative and unfotunately they did not make it.
If the Linux people were serious they would use their skill to reinvent a new OS and enter the market with it.
Unfortunately who want to push Linux are mostly the geek people that can make lots of money with services and fixing for you things that should work from the very beginning.

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Mon, 27 Apr 2009 02:07:23 +0000

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By: jack

jack — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 01:45:49 +0000

mule: have you tried the regular ubuntu instead of the studio?

By: mule

mule — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 01:41:00 +0000

can’t get ubuntu 9.04 studio to recognize my ati radeon m in my mbpro under parallels. not squat of help anywhere to fix this. 1024 x 768 is not doable. this is a good experience?

By: jack

jack — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:44:53 +0000

Igorz: You might want to check out a MODERN Linux distribution before you make such a claim. You could go the rest of your desktop Linux life with one of these and NEVER touch the command line.

By: Igorz

Igorz — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 23:05:02 +0000

This constant fawning over Linux is becoming tiresome.

Bottom-line is that no operating system that requires typing cryptic series of characters in a command-line will EVER become mainstream in this day and age, nor should it.

U R kidding yourselves if you think otherwise..

By: Zim

Zim — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 20:41:37 +0000

I don’t need games, but I need Photoshop. GIMP is not the same. I want Photoshop, running as well as it does in Windows or Mac. It’s not enough with WINE or virtualization, we need a native version! (So I’ll stay using Windows many years more)

By: Rush

Rush — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 19:19:53 +0000

I have always liked the general idea of Linux. I like free. Free is my favorite. Speech the most but I’ll take beer too.
I tried Ubuntu on a previous build (although I can’t say I remember exactly which one), use Slax on a few sticks and most of my cd’s are built on it in one form or another. I’m used to windows but found Ubuntu familiar enough to use, generally. A little rough but I didn’t really get into tweaking it.
My concern with it is security based. While the best software in the world can’t protect an idiot, it does give him a better chance. While I agree with point one, I would think that the more true that becomes, the less true point 5 is. The more common place Linux becomes, the threats to it will grow. Now, because windows is designed to be idiot friendly, it is the primary and easiest target. There is, however, no shortage of idiots. Right now it takes a little more expertise to use linux, if only in that the curve is breaking the windows mindset. The more distributed it becomes the higher percentage of inexperienced population, the higher value target it becomes.
What worries me the most is that it is pushed as “safe”, which it may be (ish), for now. Security is a way of doing things and at times the devil you know is better than the devil you dont. Eventually, new devil’s always arise and it seems like this perception would put the Linux security movement behind the curve. The ranks of those on the black side is ever growing and self funding. How will Linux based security software compete as you are pitching point two to your bosses? (which mine would say: Good for you, what have you done today besides pat your self on the back?)
The best A/V softwares update very frequently and are big business. If you take away their revenues, you will take away their motivation. In one form or another it is going to take money to provide security. Either the money you spend to develop it or the money that gets stolen because you don’t.
I don’t mean to sound critical. Windows is a lot less secure, at this point, even with all the money.
It is point four, however, that will cause me to give it another run. I like the idea of it as I said. I just don’t know that I’d trust it on my mom’s laptop.

By: John Blake

John Blake — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 18:52:16 +0000

For casual home users: absolutely ridiculous.