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.

why are they switching to linux?

I'm not arguing about switching. I'm arguing about whether OSS has a good desktop experience. For most of what counts, it doesn't, and it's not exactly GNOME or KDE's fault either. John Doe won't use it, and a lot of older geeks are fed up with stupid shit too. It's improving... but they were promising the moon back in 97 as well. I'd rather have a Mac for everyday use.

Today I glanced at slashdot, and what do I see? http//linux.slashdot.org/...

Most of the comments reflect exactly how I feel. And then of course there's this guy, who was about as hard-core as you could get, but...: http://jwz.livejournal.com/494040.html