Linux kicks aSs.

[saren]

I wonder why morons are so insistent on the desktop cube.

There's like 40 programs for windows xp that do this and windows Vista has 5 or 6 as well.

Most of all, they usually use windows pagefile management which flushes the cache when you aren't looking at the screen saving you memory and improving the performance of your machine. Something that the typical distros of linux lack in their built in environments.

[Pete_Zahut]

@n0.obAtroN: Whats easy for you might not be easy for everyone else? Have you ever thought of that?

[n0.obAtroN]

Originally Posted by saren

I wonder why morons are so insistent on the desktop cube.

There's like 40 programs for windows xp that do this and windows Vista has 5 or 6 as well.

Most of all, they usually use windows pagefile management which flushes the cache when you aren't looking at the screen saving you memory and improving the performance of your machine. Something that the typical distros of linux lack in their built in environments.

Linux has a thing called a swap disk. Most distros support up to 10 gigs of swap, which is used in the same way the windows pagefile system, just alot more effeciant.

Both pagefile systems and swap drives are designed to save you ram and improve the performance + stability of your system. It just so hapens that linux ram-saving shiz (as we will call it) can hold the equivalent of 10 gigs, whereas the windows ram saving shiz can only save you 1 gig of ram. Becuase swap drives can be stored off of your main harddrive, and arnt being written to a file on your HD (like the pagefile), it tends to be alot faster. Becuase the speed wont be dependant on other things using the same HD.

Not only does the fact of storing it on a seperate partition/harddrive come in handy for performance, but security also. With linux you have the wonderful option of encrypting the swap. Windows does not have this option.
So what hapens if you enter some credit card info into a web browser, the data is sent to pagefile.sys to save you ram, you turn of the computer, lose your computer at the airport, and some geek gets your credit card info from the pagefile.sys? Well, theres only a few hundred webpages he could start spending on, so use your imagination.

Linux is superior in every way to windows, no matter how you look at it.

PETE Zahut: how hard is it to point-and-click?

[gamepin126]

Originally Posted by n0.obAtroN

Linux is superior in every way to windows, no matter how you look at it.

What exactly are you looking at?

Help at Support: Microsoft wins easily. Window's error codes are heavily documented and which can let you be able to solve pretty much any issue you have.

User Friendly: Once again, Microsoft. You can give any idiot a WinXP cd and tell them to install it. Good luck doing that with most linux distros. You also pretty much never need to touch a command prompt unless you seriously **** something up, and that's pretty much only for reformatting ore recoveries which you could still easily do through a UI.

Games: Hands down Windows, once again. There's no other OS with such a prolific amount of games, free, opensource, or otherwise.

Development: I've not seen a OS with more abundant supply of IDE/compilers for pretty much any programming language.


If you even try and say "but linux has wine..." I'm going to ****ing smash your face in. You're emulating another OS, which pretty much every other OS is capable of (except to my knowledge, Mac) so you're not really using linux do these things. Oh yea, ever heard of VMWare? I can emulate linux, whoop dee doo.

I'm not going to diss Linux on everything. It's a great OS, and is by far the most customizable because you have access to it's actual source. So it is what you make it. Linux is really stable and a great tool however it's no where near as useful or widely accepted as a power user would need.

[n0.obAtroN]

Originally Posted by Pinnah

What exactly are you looking at?

Help at Support: Microsoft wins easily. Window's error codes are heavily documented and which can let you be able to solve pretty much any issue you have.

User Friendly: Once again, Microsoft. You can give any idiot a WinXP cd and tell them to install it. Good luck doing that with most linux distros. You also pretty much never need to touch a command prompt unless you seriously **** something up, and that's pretty much only for reformatting ore recoveries which you could still easily do through a UI.

Games: Hands down Windows, once again. There's no other OS with such a prolific amount of games, free, opensource, or otherwise.

Development: I've not seen a OS with more abundant supply of IDE/compilers for pretty much any programming language.


If you even try and say "but linux has wine..." I'm going to ****ing smash your face in. You're emulating another OS, which pretty much every other OS is capable of (except to my knowledge, Mac) so you're not really using linux do these things. Oh yea, ever heard of VMWare? I can emulate linux, whoop dee doo.

I'm not going to diss Linux on everything. It's a great OS, and is by far the most customizable because you have access to it's actual source. So it is what you make it. Linux is really stable and a great tool however it's no where near as useful or widely accepted as a power user would need.

Wine Stands for "Wine is not a Emulator" dumbass. Its a "compatibility layer". Theres a huge difference. One emulates the entire OS while the other is a compatibility layer that alows un-native apps to run natively. So linux can run all your windows games, and all the mac games, and all the linux games, WITHOUT HAVING TO EMULATE WINDOWS/MAC.

I dunno if you noticed but most open source games where FIRST coded on LINUX then PORTED to WINDOWS for your COMFORT.

Ill bet you like talking to those people in the call centers of India dont you? "Oh baby, I have a problem with my computer......". "Vell Lats cee if we keen can doo about it, me as goood grummer".

Linux is the best documented operating system in the world. Theres a tool called "man" which is used to access the "man pages". Man stands for manual. When installing software it also comes with the MANUAL (man pages) that are easily accesable and cover how to use the software, what it does etc.

THERE IS NO SOFTWARE THAT DOES NOT COME WITHOUT DOCUMENTATION IN THE OPEN SOURCE WORLD.

Now, ever wonder why all the bugs in windows have to be documented? Becuase theres so many. I would rather have no documentation about bugs, then have documentation about bugs with the bugs. It is cheaper to document the bugs then fix them.

I sure hope you know why windows has to have a support center........

Never have to touch the command promt? Sorry sonny, linux doesnt have a command prompt.

On the subject of the command prompt, with linux you can take any old computer and make it run a file and print server just fine. To compete with this microsoft was planning to release a "Mini Edition" of windows. This failed horribly when they discovered they had made the command line dependant upon on the GUI running. That is ABSOLUTELY PITIFUL. Really poor implementation.

User friendly? well.... let me see.... hang on... gotta to a google search... Ok, here is what I found : OVER 5,890 CHANNELS OF LIVE CHAT WITH THE DEVELOPERS ON irc.freenode.net. What you gonna do with microsoft, send them an email and wait a week for a reply? Screw that, get online and talk to the person who made the program, not some dipsh*t from india.

One last thing, how dumb are you? no seriously, how dumb? There is an install Icon on the desktop of ubuntu.

Here is a howto for installing ubuntu on a computer:
1. boot into ubuntu
2. click the install icon located on the desktop
3. click "Quick Install"
4. hit "Ok"
5 watch as it installs your wonderful operating system

Here is a howto for installing windows on a computer
1. obtain or purchase a copy of windows XP/Vista from your locale reatailer (100-500 american bucks)
2. Boot the windows installer cd and pray that it supports your BIOS, or RAID if you use dual hard drives.
3. run fdisk and partition the disk, hope you dont get an error. You will need atleast one NTFS partition.
4. Format the new partition
5. click "ok" to install.
6. enter in your private data, aka name, location, etc
7. boot into windows
8. download + install all the video drivers needed for your video card
9. download + install all the wireless drivers for your wireless network card
10. download and install all other drivers you may need
11. install all of your software
12. Through out this process, pray you dont get an error, crash, or some kind of usual windows circumstance. If you get the blue screen good luck, your on your own.

Whos the dummy now?

EDIT: Installing windows looks like this:

Installing ubuntu looks like this:

[saren]

Wow. You're an idiot. They don't port things to windows for comfort, they do it so people will actually use it.

Windows won the PC world. Linux lost. Get over it. Look forward to newer OS' that will challenge Windows.

[n0.obAtroN]

Originally Posted by saren

Wow. You're an idiot. They don't port things to windows for comfort, they do it so people will actually use it.

Windows won the PC world. Linux lost. Get over it. Look forward to newer OS' that will challenge Windows.

Is that all you got to say? Thats sad. FYI: After releasing Vista mircrosoft's net worth went from 70 billion to 50 billion. Bill Gates is planning to sell microsoft and retire in 2008. And alot of computer retailers are offering Linux pre-installed on their laptops.

They port the stuff to windows so you have the COMFORT of being able to run it without installing linux, dumbass.

Linux lost? the war never ended, and linux is beggining to win.

[saren]

That's a lie.

Nice job failing the facts. He's retiring. He doesn't own the company entirely, only 50% of it. And Microsoft's networth is more than all of every linux distro company combined and mac and solaris.

Not to mention Bill Gates alone is worth $60 billion. Muchless his co-founder or the rest of the company.

[n0.obAtroN]

Originally Posted by saren

That's a lie.

Nice job failing the facts. He's retiring. He doesn't own the company entirely, only 50% of it. And Microsoft's networth is more than all of every linux distro company combined and mac and solaris.

Not to mention Bill Gates alone is worth $60 billion. Muchless his co-founder or the rest of the company.

THATS A LIE! LIES! LIES! LIES I TELL YOU! lawl. I find windows nubs so funny, always get a good luagh every post. I have a couple of windows geeks in my school, their so dumb that their funny, always fun to talk to them.

No duh hes retiring. Good hell, what else would he do? This is the first time that computer retailers have decided to resort to an older version of windows/linux for their computers instead of the latest windows.

No duh the net worth is more than linux, linux is FREE dumbass.

Unless you can come up with a good argument against linux or for windows, please to do not post here again. unless you post something funny

[saren]

Well I can't argue with self-delusion. You're wrong but that's fine, live in your redneck, dumbass world.

Ironically, I was a network admin for almost 2 years and our linux boxes gave us as much, if not more trouble, than our windows end user boxes.

Solaris and Windows are the only two decent operating systems out there. Not my fault you're too cheap or stupid to buy either.

[n0.obAtroN]

Originally Posted by saren

Well I can't argue with self-delusion. You're wrong but that's fine, live in your redneck, dumbass world.

Ironically, I was a network admin for almost 2 years and our linux boxes gave us as much, if not more trouble, than our windows end user boxes.

Solaris and Windows are the only two decent operating systems out there. Not my fault you're too cheap or stupid to buy either.

Well theres only about 6,000,000 dilusional people, nothing to worry about.

Thanks for aggreeing with me, unix is the best. (Solaris is unix based just like linux pall)

I run my own network with over 20 computers on it. I got fileservers, login managers, game servers, streaming servers, Appache servers, the whole ****load. If I had to do it with windows I would commit suicide and hope Jesus saves me.

EDIT: not to mention I would be a broke man also.

LoL, continue posting, I enjoy this.

You know most schizephrenic people dont think they are schizephrenic? Instead they believe everyone else is schizephrenic.

[Pete_Zahut]

Originally Posted by n0.obAtroN

I run my own network with over 20 computers on it. I got fileservers, login managers, game servers, streaming servers, Apache servers, the whole ****load. If I had to do it with windows I would commit suicide and hope Jesus saves me.

Thats one thing that makes linux good, its better for running servers then Windows

[n0.obAtroN]

Originally Posted by Pete_Zahut

Thats one thing that makes linux good, its better for running servers then Windows

[Pete_Zahut]

Doesnt make it better then Windows