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Linux vs. Windows
- Thread starter sMashPiranha
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DaejangNim
Senior member
it's good for MS to have something to worry about
sMashPiranha
Senior member
I reckon. I just starting using Linux a month ago, and now I see what Microsoft is scared of 😀. Linux is awesome, I still have trouble believing that its free!
Linux is awesome! I have used it for few years now. So far I have used SuSE Linux (which is excellent!), but last week I switched to Debian. It rocks! Two boot-floppies, that's all I needed to install it. I booted the computer, and it installed itself from the net.
Installation is so easy it's not even funny! "apt-get install application". It automatically fetches the software from the net, take care of dependancies, installs it and sets everything ready. It's just so easy! Oh, and the fact that it's 100% free doesn't hurt either 🙂.
I can easily understand why MS is worried. The speed of which Linux advances is unreal, there's no way MS could keep up with it! When I started using it few years ago, the installation was awkward and text-based. GUI (KDE)was somewhere between Win3.11 and Win95 in looks (altrough it was much more powerful). Today, the installation is as easy as next==>next==>next==>finish (well, it is like that on the mainstrean distros, it's a bit different with Debian for example). The GUI looks better than anything MS has to offer, and it has even more functionality than before. And it's extremely easy to use! All that if just couple of years!
"First they ignore you
Then they laught at you
Then they fight you
Then you win"
Linux has passed the two first stages, we are currently in stage three 🙂.
Installation is so easy it's not even funny! "apt-get install application". It automatically fetches the software from the net, take care of dependancies, installs it and sets everything ready. It's just so easy! Oh, and the fact that it's 100% free doesn't hurt either 🙂.
I can easily understand why MS is worried. The speed of which Linux advances is unreal, there's no way MS could keep up with it! When I started using it few years ago, the installation was awkward and text-based. GUI (KDE)was somewhere between Win3.11 and Win95 in looks (altrough it was much more powerful). Today, the installation is as easy as next==>next==>next==>finish (well, it is like that on the mainstrean distros, it's a bit different with Debian for example). The GUI looks better than anything MS has to offer, and it has even more functionality than before. And it's extremely easy to use! All that if just couple of years!
"First they ignore you
Then they laught at you
Then they fight you
Then you win"
Linux has passed the two first stages, we are currently in stage three 🙂.
Linux is Such a halfassed hack of unix.
Use something proven like bsd.
Use something proven like bsd.
ShadowHunter
Banned
[extreme sarcasm] Oh yeah, MS sure is on their way out alright! [/extreme sarcasm]
Those who say, "I now know what MS is scared of" seriously lack clue. Linux may be a feasible option for you to play around on at home, but it's not a business solution, period. I'm not aware of a single reasonable enterprise which bases it's technical foundation on Linux. Do I run, and like, Linux? Yes. Do I prefer *BSD? Yes. Would I promote Linux as a feasible platform to my clients? Hell no.
It's an enthusiast's OS, and at this point, not much more. As a developer, there are pros and cons to both platforms, and I use whichever one suits my needs at the time.
A potential vertical market for Linux is embedded devices, but they're too busy chasing down MS' end-user market to really push it. Now, Pocket PC is going to rule your mobile world, and why not?
Linux has lost its roots over the years. Unix (and all it's derivatives, including Linux) was never designed to be an end-user OS, so I don't see why it should make futile attempts to be one now.
my $.02. Give me my CLI tools, my dirty programming environment, and I'm happy.
It's an enthusiast's OS, and at this point, not much more. As a developer, there are pros and cons to both platforms, and I use whichever one suits my needs at the time.
A potential vertical market for Linux is embedded devices, but they're too busy chasing down MS' end-user market to really push it. Now, Pocket PC is going to rule your mobile world, and why not?
Linux has lost its roots over the years. Unix (and all it's derivatives, including Linux) was never designed to be an end-user OS, so I don't see why it should make futile attempts to be one now.
my $.02. Give me my CLI tools, my dirty programming environment, and I'm happy.