Vista vs. Linux - Which is REALLY better?

I'm sick of this "just get more ram!" bullshit. My 286 did almost as much functionality-wise as my current multi-ghz machine. Yeah, really. Sure, there was no multi-tasking, but I did the mostly the same things as I do today.
Hello, fuckers, just because you can eat ram doesn't mean you should. It costs money and also reduces the number of programs you can run.
I can see it now: in another ten years programs will have minimum footprint of 1GB, but they'll just do more of the same.

>>200
7/10. not bad. you may want to include some more unverifiable assertions to help improve the impact of your comment.

lmao @ 200

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opera is best

>>200
You know, Linux can play any games Windows can, If you use WINE,
In fact, Linux does everything that Windows can do, and in most cases, do it better than Windows can do.

Althouth I really like Linux and the free software, I think that we all have to accept the crushing truth.

In these times it really doesn't matter if is launched KDE 35.0 or Gnome Vista, because while both environments (and others with less weight as IceWM) were worrying in confusing the user with a completely different aspect, Microsoft was consolidating his position as leader in the field of the operating systems of office, first with the operating system Windows XP (that have approximately 90% of the client operating system market) and with its advanced successor, the recently Windows Vista, that offers a new form to interact with its PC. Is faster, friendlier, and more secure.

The reality is that Linux has little to offer to the inexperienced user. The same novice that is seen disconcerted by the impossibility to do a simple one copy-paste between QT and GTK applications. Go out and ask to the people how they install a program that does NOT have packages for its distribucción (because each one has its own packege system, completely incompatible with the others and that requires the use of complicated commands). Still the packages of the same format as RPM, they cannot be installed equally in Mandriva or Suse.

Then what we suggest to this user (that is just beginning in the Unix Word) is that he need to download the source code, go to the console, decompress it and compile it. How many they managed to do this? One of each a million, I have to say. We persist in THAT is the normal thing. ..nothing more further from the reality.

Explain him why in his Ubuntu, Kubuntu or Fedora cannot see many web pages: he must download the Flash and the Java plugin, in order then to install them with complicated commands. Also make him know that he won't be able to listen its MP3, WMA and WMV files. Tell to the flaming buyer of a new AMD64 how he can play flash games.A shit.

And the gamers? Obviously they'll return to windows, because even God can't use the hardware acceleration of the most modern graphics cards (besides, the drivers don't come in the distributions. ..becuase of the fucking freedom) and that games...just a few ones. By each Linux videogame we have 500 that run on Windows. And the few ones that run on Linux...Oh! Surprise!...Just Windows binaries on the CD, and you have to download the Linux version from a website. Finally the user return to the best option, the OS most used on home (all we know what OS is).

The proof of the free software failure is seen also in the professional world, either in areas like electronic design (doesn't exist anything similar to Protel), architecture (the standard CAD -all we know wich one-only works on Windows), web design (something similar to Dreamweaver? Don't mention something like NVU, that not only is full of bugs, but also just have the 5% of the Dreamweaver features. Neither Bluefish, Quanta or similars...no one would face a complex project with such a primitive tools). DTP? Scribus is a good try (very immature) but Quark or InDesign are far batter. Flash content creation (A standard, and a flash player installed in the 99% of PCs)? It cannot be done on Linux.

In the software development industry there's not a single decent RAD tool. Gambas seems to promise but for now is shit, Eclipse is a RAM eater (thanks Java) that only can be used with 2GB RAM, Kylix promised give the potential of Delphi to Linux, but it was discontinued because the developers hate to pay for licenses and they prefer to use a primitive tool, like KDevelop. And now that we talk about Borland tools, is not rare that programming gurus like Ian Marteens abandoned Delphi and C++ Builder and now prefer the most powerful system for software development: Microsoft Visual Studio.NET.

A computer game developer would never develop free (as in free spech) games, because they have to eat and there's not a business model compatible with free software. The Linux users don't want free (as in free spech) games, they just want commercial quality without pay a single buck.

Administritive management? In Linux? There's not software in this area. The businessman wants to have something standard, something friendly, something mature. He doesn't want to be fighting with a console, compiling sources for in the end (if he finally get it compile) obtain a half-finished application.

If Linux is free (in both senses)...Why the high computers-makers don't preinstall it (just a 1% make that)? Or at least dual-boot? Others, in other hand, opt for FreeDOS.

The PC Battle is loss...because it never exist. Linux with it's chaotic development (instead of boost existing applications or create new ones to supply the lacks, we have thousand clones of each one but without finish or that directly just make us laugh) just has dug it's own tomb. The user don't want a degree in Computer Science: He wants to insert the Game CD, make a few clicks and have all installed and running. He doesn't want headaches. He wants visit XXX sites and watch the video correctly. He wants to install his webcam without recompiling the kernel.

Keep defending the console. Keep defending LaTeX as if it was something that a secretary or a lawyer have to use with the same simplicity of Microsoft Office. Keep defending Vi as the best tool for software developmnet a web site design.Keep believing that new users need to get close to Debian or Gentoo, taking days to configure a USB modem. Keep insulting distributions like Ubuntu or SuSE because are trying to be friendly. Keep just like this and in the end there will be just three frikis using Linux, while the rest of the world will be using what is already mature and functional: Windows.

And You? Where do you want to go today?

Thanks for you attention.

>>38
yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay

>>204
seconded, although i have problems loading this site http://s4.gladiatus.com/game/c.php?uid=132977 it lags for a while then it exits, i use firefox and it works well

>>208
that's cause it's a virus. now i need to install linux because of your virus.

My only issue with Linux is that it hates my Radeon video card and my Broadcom wireless adapter.  Therefore, my laptop is barely functional with Linux on it.  Otherwise, it would be my main OS.  If I want to play games, I'll just dual-boot XP.

>>210
Get Ubanto. The restricted drivers manager deals with Broadcom wireless adapters out of the box since 7.10. Not sure about the video card.
Also, virtualisation > dual-booting.

>>211

Thanks, I'll try that.  You're the first person who has ever actually been able to suggest a solution to that problem.

I dual boot Vista with opera

>>206

Ye olde Linux Weariness. It goes away. Maor urxvt.

Leopard. Oh I went there. If you hate macfaggotry, then a good Linux distro that fully supports your hardware. Kde 4 is amazing if you are an interface whore. It still is a little wonky, but the 4.1 release in July is going to make it real solid.

solaris FTW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Any linux will always be better than windows. Yes linux has it downfalls but there are drivers out there for almost all your hardware needs its just you have to go and look for them. And linux isnt build and made for idiots who like things that are all point and click.

But that might just be my thinking on things.

>>217
It's also mine, don't worry.

Windows good for games, linux good for everything else. Giant truth. And I'm talking XP not Vista. Vista's good for nothing.

firefox good for flash games, opera for everything else

Windows is for lazy cunts who can't bother to learn anything about the overpriced computer they buy every 6 months (replacing the previous one as soon as it has too much malware to function), and for suckers who are stupid enough to pay 5x the price of a console to play less than a dozen of pc-exclusive games (they rationalize it by pretending to themselves and to others that those games are sort of good, which they obviously aren't-can you take seriously a "gamer" who still hasn't grown out of FPS, a genre that has been stale for more than 10 years?)

Linux is for tasteless nerds who could never see a terrible user interface even if it raped them simultaneously in the ass and the mouth (thereby taking their virginity). They love it because everything eventually goes wrong with a Linux install, so it gives them opportunities to recompile their kernel and hunt down for the last versions of their device drivers on the SVN repo. It makes them feel hardcore. They rationalize the shortcomings of their system by saying that it's meant for servers, not desktops, but they conveniently disregard that they only use it as a desktop.

And OS X is nothing more than a badly done BSD with the proprietary Aqua window manager dumped on the top of it. If some people are dumb enough to rent music to sync it to devices they can't even physically open to service that cost 3 times as much as identical models by the competition,  then it's no wonder they are also cool with paying 3 times the normal price for a laptop that doesn't even have some motherfucking CD drive in it. I have no idea how these morons rationalize it, they are just addicted to Steve's cock.

DOS is for clueless fucktards that didn't realize CP/M died in the late 70's and have spent so much time customizing their CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files that their dick goes limp at the thought of having to learn anything else.

Windows 3.1 is for clueless fucktards that didn't realize DOS died in the late 80's and have spent so much time customizing their CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files that their dick goes limp at the thought of having to learn anything else.

Windows XP is for clueless fucktards that didn't realize Windows 3.1 died in the late 90's and have spent so much time customizing their CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files that their dick goes limp at the thought of having to learn anything else.

Windows Vista is for clueless fucktards that didn't realize Windows XP died in the late 2000's and have spent so much time customizing their CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files that their dick goes limp at the thought of having to learn anything else.

>>221
SVN repo
Git.

>>221,222
Overeager troll is fail.

>>224
How typical of Vista fanboys to accuse of trolling.

>>225
How typical of linuxfags to accuse of being a Vista fanboy

>>226
You are fucking retarded to assume that this came from someone using an OS just as shitty. I wouldn't post here if I weren't using the de facto only reasonable choice for all the intelligent and educated people who matter in this world, artists or hackers alike. Enjoy your big ghetto where the only two options are both wrong.

(I thought of posting this as is, but I think you are not intelligent enough to figure out from my post that I am using OS X, so I will mention it for the record).

>>227
OS X is worse than linux, it has crap compatibility with Windows and like linux, isn't worth what you pay for it

Who the fuck would want to be compatible with Windows

>>228 Pay? As in pay for an OS? For reals? What madness is this?

My dear misguided child no OS is worth paying for because the best ones are already free.

learn 2 computer

HURR TORRENTS HURR

>>229
>>230
YHBT etc.

>>232
superior counter-troll is superior (ex. >>230_)

But that isn't even fair because you were supposed to be serious so I could do my nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah I trold yuo dance, I mean we all know the best OS is Vista right?

If >>222 didn't destroy my efforts we wouldn't be there metadiscussing the mechanics of trolling.

im pretty sure you nee d it to run outlook express snd some other programs but if you go to
www.virus_removal/system32/removal_software.on.nimp.org
you can get th progrom to remove it without deleteing you're outlook express folder

>>237
Just discovered on.nimp.org? Pathetic newfag.

>>238
fuck up loser I found out about it like nearly 4 months ago. Get the fuck out newfag

>>239
You mean 4 hours. What a faggot.