unix n00bs

unix n00bs (i.e. most of you here) make me shit my pants

for the love of god, people, using unix for a month is not enough to make you knowledgeable in its ways and give advice to others. please refrain from making yourself look like complete utter idiots (mind you, this is hard to achieve since idiots are the norm in CS) by giving horribly shitty authorative-sounding suggestions based on shit you read two days ago on linuxtoday and newsforge.

discuss.

>Or, god forbid, they want to use software you buy off the shelf (your mom won't be running Wine to use photoshop or quicken).

OH NOES MY PROGRAMS I BOUGHT FOR WINDOWS WON'T RUN ON LOONIX. No shit? No one complains that their linux programs don't run on windows. If you have a finanicial investment in windows, then you're an idiot for switching over to linux.

As far as non-standard hardware goes, from my experience if it gives linux problems, it's eventually going to give windows problems. As far as the 'compiled into the binary by default' argument goes...what the fuck? If you know enough to care, then you should know enough to know ./configure --enter-a-option-i-read-by-typing-configure-dash-dash-help && make && make install

I've been using linux for years, and I haven't *needed* to recompile jack shit since the 1990's. So, really, I think you're making up excuses out of whole cloth on that one. The only possible exception I can think of is watching dvds; but that's because of legal issues surrounding dvd decryption, not technical issues.