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.

Either you can't read, or you're just too emotionally tied up with linux/bsd/whatever.

WON'T RUN ON LOONIX.

Of course not. Except that John Doe wants those programs. So do I. Strike one.

you should know enough to know ./configure --enter-a-option-i-read-by-typing-configure-dash-dash-help && make && make install

You and I do. I ran slackware for years, and that's how I used to install most my shit. That doesn't mean I want to waste time doing it. And John Doe won't do it, because the command line is scary to him. Strike two.

recompile jack shit since the 1990's.

You haven't compiled anything the entire time? You're full of shit. Even with Debian you sometimes have to compile things. And John Doe isn't going to fuck with apt-get either. Talking about which, apt-get is fugly.

By the way, strike three.

it's eventually going to give windows problems.

Now we know you're full of shit. It might, but it's a whole less likely (and less painful) with windows. Last I checked, my scanner isn't supported by SANE. My graphics cards doesn't have accelerated 3D either. 2.6.11.11 just partially broke my synaptics touchpad. One PCMCIA card doesn't work, and the other took several hours hacking with card services to work. Etc.

This isn't a good desktop experience. Is your head stuffed so far up your ass you can't see this?