Comments on: 5 Things Linux does better than Windows

By: Someperson

Someperson — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 00:08:10 +0000

Yes, forsome things perhaps a monopoly is better….

By: Someperson

Someperson — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 00:05:49 +0000

You have bviously not spent endless hours helping fix windows issues when it does not just work, or quits just working. And for the average computer user without a support department? Good luck.

By: Someperson

Someperson — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 23:58:06 +0000

The only real advantage windows has, is having its foot in the door when IBM introduced the PC and thus became the default standard. That is the only, albeit very practical, advantage.

By: Someperson

Someperson — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 23:56:24 +0000

I must disagree on hardware support… Almost never install windows without needing to install even incredably common intel or realtech network drivers just to go online and get current drivers… Have installed linux many times, even on laptops, without downloading anything.

By: Someperson

Someperson — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 23:51:48 +0000

Using an expensive office package just to show off layout “skills” just shows the english instructors are just as clueless and keep perpetuating the office quality myth..
Our gen-ed faculty was completely thrown for a loop with docx… But never asks if they shoud stop switching to they latest. They just “upgrade” with the other lemings.

By: Someperson

Someperson — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 23:48:39 +0000

Exactly- the old version-xp works better.

By: Meh

Meh — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 14:41:21 +0000

I agree with this site, but to be fare “Windows” is obviously not designed for interoperability. Given the kind of business it chases and the closed nature of its use. That however if being the only thing one can pick apart then we are looking at things very differently. I think both operating systems have their uses, what most users don’t understand about Linux is that it is a world constantly evolving where as Microsoft is concerned they are only able to adapt to their market needs. That however is also what cuts them short and creates that distance between users and end product.

Every year you have to ask yourself a moral question is it worth spending $$ on an os beyond looks that has yet to still fix broken packages it never got right the first time? Unlike like Linux, MS Windows software does not rely on dependencies it relies on the core OS and it’s DLL’s but what happens if there is a problem with your OS itself? What happens if your DLL files are miss communicating with each other? Simple it creates problems in the form of bugs, how do these bugs get resolved? Well unlike Linux repositories Windows uses “Windows Update” not the same as a repository but more akin to an online database of thousands of fixes to your OS and its core files just so it can make use of your installed software. Does that sound right to you?

All practical nonsense aside I am not the kind of user that points fingers, both OS have their history, goals and ultimate purpose. With that said I like both OS and I am more than aware of each of the strengths and weaknesses of the two, ultimately what I think an OS is that it is merely a filing cabinet for daily work. How you use that work depends on your personal experience. If you want to go Matrix anal on the subject of pure code, if you follow history you will know that there is no such thing as perfect code because of this imbalance in the universe of computing. All laws rely on ones and zeros, unless a super genius rewrites the aging of ones and zeros to some other form of machine language there won’t really be much of a paradigm shift any time soon.

All I will say is regardless if its open source or closed perfection in inconceivable, those who think other wise either don’t know what they are talking about or failed at history, economics and adaptation.

By: Bob juegos

Bob juegos — Thu, 26 May 2011 22:55:18 +0000

Ye I love linux, than windows, another thing better, is their speed for on and off, windows go perfect the first months but linux still for years!

By: Bill Jobs

Bill Jobs — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:15:38 +0000

I can configure KDE including setting up different workspaces and activities, in ten minutes.
The GUIs of Linux have been evolved tremendously so the FUD about the many days you need to configure Linux is not valid anymore…

By: Bill Jobs

Bill Jobs — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:07:26 +0000

Windows have no place in this world!
It is a closed commercial crap software product that lock you in the jail if you try to copy it or explore it!
On the other hand Linux is open free and you can copy, explore, modify.
There is no comparison!
The first is an evil commercial product that you are not allowed to own or share while the second is a gift to the humanity that continually evolves.
Having Linux you own the computer, having windows the computer owns you.

And btw KDE rocks!
At the 4.6 version is capable of doing all thing awesome!Different workspaces each with a different set of wallpapers and widgets running at the same time!Pure science fiction for the nasty, indifferent world of windows ™

By: Ron Hyatt

Ron Hyatt — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 03:17:58 +0000

Can you do what you want, easily and without spending hours, days weeks figuring it out? That is all that matters to 98 percent of users. Most will spend money for this. And that is what Linux Supporters can’t seem to grasp. But but but it’s FREE! Only if your time has no value whatsoever.

By: prlinux

prlinux — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:54:13 +0000

I use Linux all the time. I also use windows all the time. When I want to use an ipod I think Itunes has killed linux. When want to produce professional artwork on the cheap I think the GIMP has killed windows. OK – what I really like is the competition. If one of the major players killed off all competition then goodbye development (where would Microsoft get its next generation killer Ideas from without the open software foundation).

By: windows rulez

windows rulez — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:39:50 +0000

There is no getting around a few problems with Linux. As has been stated, Linux is not user-friendly, windows is. Linux has a limited number of programs it will run. Most programs run on Windows. If you don’t like the windows shell, use an alternative shell. I use emerge desktop, and haven’t used the default explorer shell for a long time now. I also use rocketdock which emulates the popout “dock” on mac. Here’s another great utility:Autohotkey. Autohotkey can be a simple a-b text replacement macro language, or if your willing to spend some time w/ it you can write total programs entirely in Autohotkey. To my knowledge there is no equivalent language for Linux. Believe me, I’ve done my research.

The bottom line is there is nothing Linux can do that you can’t do in windows with a little bit of research & patience. A lot of patience is required just to learn the absolute basics in Linux. Been there, done that. I choose windows.

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:48:31 +0000

I skipped Vista but like my brother-in-laws version…and I just found that I really love Windows 7. Everything I have works with it and I’m happy. I pitched my Linux in the trash just like I did Solaris that I got sent to me. What is Solaris good for anyhow if you’re not a computer person in a server room serving HTML pages….my god even Windows can do that. Who needs Solaris or Linux? They aren’t user friendly and neither are the persons who support them and if you say something weak about liking Widows – Linux geeks get really upset. You can’t get help from Ubuntu or openSUSE and the answers one gets in the e-mail are short of just calling a normal user a dumbass. You people need to get a clue about your attitudes.

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:42:15 +0000

I have a friend who runs Linux and believes in it…he’s got a degree in computer science and knows how to do that stuff….I have no clue. Why should I try being a computer software person or a technician when that’s not what I do for a living? I do all my scanning, photography and Autocad right from my Windows XP workstation at home and at work. After getting Linux for a trial run I found I couldn’t use my Autocad or Mastercam and that MS SQL is incompatible with MySQL. You guys are scamming the public in my opion. Linux might be well and fine for geeks and such – but, NOT for the average user! I’ll take you to task on tht anyday.

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:36:11 +0000

I’m just a PC user. Linux sucked…Windows loaded and ran fine. Package Management – what the hell is that? Flexability – you have to be kidding – everything I have from scanner, printer, camera (especially) barely operated and not even to full color. Interoperability – I took your advice and bought Linux and none of my Windows programs would even load. I couldn’t even get to the point of being able to use Linux as a desktop…my network is all Windows and Linux stopped working with the athentication of Active Directory. Come on folks — quit talking developer as if all of us users are somehow developers and technicians. My wife loaded her Mac from the box to her desk and hooked up her scanner, printers and camera and they all worked….and you are trying to tell me Linux is better than my Windows which I use as easily as my wife does her Mac. You’ve got to be kidding.

By: raghu

raghu — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:44:31 +0000

I think the main reason for windows success is its tight integration with its products.MS-office,IE8,windows live,database and .NET act as one family.They are so good intrecting with each other.This makes programmers life easy.I think if such integration exist like java,firefox,mySql,openoffice works like a family it can find place in big organization.

By: Jake

Jake — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 01:40:16 +0000

Who gives a rat’s bark about Linux running well with anything other than Linux or in that fact — who cares if Mac runs Windows or if Windows runs OS2 or if the AS400 IBM runs Atari or who really gives a rat’s you know what? I run Windows — and thankful it won’t run Linux and screw my Linux boxes up…saying that — I run Linux and I don’t want my Linux co-running with my Windows. I used to have a Mac — but, it got old and I threw it away. I used to run a AS400 at work — and I’m forever glad it didn’t run any of the above…and then I’d have to deal either with broken drivers, viruses, modules that IBM wouldn’t support of fix and so and so on. I run my Linux to be Linux and I use Linux Programs to do jobs I want done with Linux….same with my Windows boxes. Who in their right mind would want to combind them together to run each other’s programs? That just doesn’t even make good sense. Do you go out each morning and pull the plugs from your Chevy to put into your Ford so you can drive to work? Now how silly does that sound? Well, getting OS’s to run with each other sounds just as silly. If you want everything to run together – then someone should just get rid of all the Linux flavors, Windows versions, AS400′s, Atari’s and so on — and just run MacIntosh. What do you really need to do that a Mac can’t do?

By: aSa

aSa — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:04:44 +0000

> his because with the growing of the Linux market more fools are going to write virus, spyware, trojans, keyloggers, etc. especialy for Linux…….

Writing viruses is one thing. Making users “use” them is another.

> Are there any firewall’s programs, spyware programs, virus programs, trojans programs, etc especialy for linux?

By: luzar

luzar — Sat, 09 May 2009 13:21:13 +0000

Very Well written and one of the few articles I’ve read in this vain, and there are a lot of them, that doesn’t feel like a fanboy wrote it.