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linux users fail

Name: Anonymous 2009-06-06 2:20

when they use windows, why do they always try go to command prompt to do SIMPLEST THINGS AVAILABLE FROM BASIC GUI
IT FUCKING TAKES LONGER TIME TO OPEN THAT COMMAND PROMPT AND WRITE SHIT THERE THAN CLICK A MOTHERFUCKER BUTTON
i can not understand

Name: Anonymous 2009-06-06 2:23

>>1
It would have been shorted and quicker to type "i cannot understand" rather than move your fingers over to the space bar, I cannot understand why you did that!

Name: Anonymous 2009-06-06 2:30

i can not understand
I think this is the point.

Name: Anonymous 2009-06-06 2:33

First of all, let me begin by stating that I am *not* anti-Linux. I am a great fan of all that Linux stands for and the FOSS philosophy of open-source. Sadly though, I was badly mistaken...

When my friends first introduced me to Linux, I was impressed. It was supposed to be the perfect OS. A complete replacement for Windows and I was so thrilled. According to them, Linux would satisfy all my computer needs and I no longer had to pay for my software, pay for a commercial OS that would require constant updating and patching for security. Linux, they said, was 100% secure. No viruses, no spam, no more trojans, no more spyware. Impressive. In this mood I quickly downloaded Fedora Core (which was touted as one of the most newbie friendly distros around). Installing Linux was easy. So I was lulled into a sense of complacency. And then began my woes. There was no hardware detection wizard! My god! How was I supposed to use my printer, my digital camera and my softmodem? I was clueless. This was supposed to be that OS that just worked! When I thought Fedora would recognize my hardware I was only 20% right. The only device that got detected was my network card. Fine. I thought. Nobody's perfect. Let's give Linux another chance.

So I googled around for my problem (who doesn't ). I found a plethora of information all confusing and disjointed and difficult to piece together. I wondered whether I had to get a Ph.D in rocket science before I could understand all that stuff. I read online HOWTOs for hours and wore my eyes out. I began reinstalling Linux in the hope that the hardware would get detected somehow. Finally I began downloading every other Linux distribution out there. Mandrake, Suse, Redhat... I tried them all. Finally I came across an online bulletin board, supposed to be inhabited by Linux experts.

With a lightening heart, I hoped that this would be the end of my woes. Finally, I would get some help to use this so-called "perfect" Operating System. Whoa! I was wrong!

They asked me to recompile the kernel to "include hardware support"! What was that all about?!! Kernel? What's that? I was clueless and I admitted it. And then I was in for a shock. I began recieving messages asking me to "google" it or RTFM. Well, hadn't I done all that and I was still in a daze? Was this the "perfect" OS and the "perfect" community that supports this OS? I was outraged and I complained to the site administrator who never bothered to reply. I must admit that a few kind souls did try to teach me how to "configure" my hardware.. But I was still clueless. WHY the hell should I "configure" anything? I am not a programmer. I never know the difference between a compiler and an interpreter. The maximum knowledge of programming I possess is the little bit of GW-Basic I learnt at school. I was saddened and disheartened at the attitude of the community which assumes that every Linux user should be an expert. Sorry. You shouldn't need to be an expert to use that "perfect" OS!

Why doesn't this so-called perfect OS come with something as simple as a hardware detection wizard? Isn't this something basic that every computer user expects? Microsoft may not be liked by some people, but nobody can deny that they revolutionized the software industry and made computers available to the common man. When I asked this very logical, very reasonable question, all I got was a bunch of attitudes, no solutions.

Needless to say, I ditched Linux quickly. I wanted to get work done, not get bombarded by a bunch of "gurus" with attitudes. Wow! Was I impressed or what! With that kind of a community, Linux is in trouble. I feel sorry for this man, Torvalds. No doubt he wanted to build an OS that would compete with Microsoft, but even he couldn't have imagined what a monster he had unleashed in the form of this Linux community.

Linux should be bought over by corporates who at least understand the customer needs and the so-called "community" needs to be disbanded. I'm sure thousands of ordinary people like me wouldn't mind paying for it if it was made a lot easier. And companies listen to the customer. They have a motive. They want profit and it's not such a bad thing after all. After all, the customer is the King. The Linux community is full of half-competent "gurus" who like to hide their lack of knowledge under a cloak of superiority and only delight in taking it out at newbies like me.

Name: Anonymous 2009-06-06 2:51

>>4
Why hello, http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/general-10/haris-little-contest1-linux-troll-essay-contest-332367/ !

I was beginning to think I'd never see you again. Depressingly, I find this pasta stale now.

>>1
Because somehow, using a GUI removes your "choice" (whatever that means, I guess renaming and moving files can be done in 10 different ways).

Name: Anonymous 2009-06-06 4:33

>>4
Delicious.

Name: Anonymous 2009-06-06 4:58

>> 1

I'm a GNU/linux user, and I have one thing to say: <Win>-r

Name: Anonymous 2009-06-06 6:12

>>1
Except windows command line is [i]PIG DISGUSTING[/u]

Name: Anonymous 2009-06-06 10:48

>>5
Haha. Joke's on them. This is truly astounding, they are themselves capable to write essays on why Linux sucks and then call them trolling.

The only OS software that works (and has therefore become popular) is the one backed up by big evil enterprises. (I'm willing to include the Linux kernel here, but that one doesn't get used much because it's useless on its own)

Enjoy your butthurt and sub-1% market share.

Name: Anonymous 2009-06-06 11:43

>>5
Look at it this way.

On most browsers, you can bring up your browsing history by pressing Control-H. (No, this is not going to become a discussion of werecows.) On Firefox, this brings up a sidebar that shows up on the left side of the window. If you put your mouse over the edge of the sidebar, the cursor will turn into a different kind of arrow. By clicking and dragging it, you can move the edge of the sidebar back and forth. You are, to put it another way, manipulating the border between the normal window and the history window. By moving the mouse, you can increase the portion of the window devoted to either part. In a more extreme view of this situation, you're increasing or decreasing the amount of existence the sidebar has.

Now, let's apply this idea to something more abstract. Look out your window. If you don't live in a highly urbanized area, you should be able to see the horizon. Think of this as the border between the land and the sky. The land and sky are obviously distinguishable thanks to this boundary. Now, if you were to "drag" the sash between the sky and the land, or to manipulate the border between land and sky, you would end up causing the sky to become larger and the land to become smaller, or vice versa. An effect of this might be to cause something that was just on the ground to suddenly be hundreds of feet in the air. Truly a frightening situation to be in. So, look at it this way - manipulating the border between two physical things shifts whatever balance there is in the interaction between those things. Alternatively, by manipulating the border between two things, you can change the manner in which they exist.

Still, this isn't that abstract, since it's still dealing with real things in the real world. Many believe that in this world, there are those things that are true, and those that obviously aren't. This divides reality into two extremes: truth and falsehood. But, since we have two extremes, logically one can imagine a boundary between those two extremes - the border between truth and lies. If one were to manipulate this border, suddenly things that were pure fantasy (flying pigs, for the sake of argument) have become reality - or things from reality have ceased to exist. This is how Yukari is said to have invaded the moon - by manipulating the border between truth and lies, as applied to the reflection of the moon on a pond, she was able to make the reflection of the moon into a manifestation of the actual moon, and so send her youkai army onto it. This is what's truly amazing about Yukari's power - the ability to manipulate the border between completely abstract concepts allows her to fundamentally change reality as we know it (at least in terms of two abstract concepts).

Name: Anonymous 2009-06-06 11:50

Because you can't do this in a GUI:

for i in `find ~ | tac`; do mv $i ~/`head /dev/random/ -c 8`; done

Or maybe because they want to get acquainted with Windows PowerShell.

Name: Anonymous 2009-06-06 11:57

>>11
That's right baby. It's all about the Unix philosophy.

Name: Anonymous 2009-06-06 12:24

>>11
why the tac?

Name: Anonymous 2009-06-06 12:38

>>11
I hope none of your filenames have spaces in them lmao.

find ~ -print0 | xargs -0 -n 1 -I '{}' mv '"{}"' ~/`head /dev/random/ -c 8`

Also, you could take it a step further and make nicer filenames via

file ~ -print0 | xargs -0 -n 1 -I '{}' mv '"{}"' ~/`cat /dev/random | tr -Cu -d '[:alnum:]' | head -c 8`

but maybe that defeats the point?

Name: Anonymous 2009-06-06 12:40

>>11-14
But you can do it in five lines of any scripting languages and still understand what the fuck it does one hour later.

Name: Anonymous 2009-06-06 13:00

>>13
If you don't use tac you will move the directories before moving their contents.

>>14
Thanks, I hadn't thought about that.

Name: Anonymous 2009-06-06 13:07

>>14
/dev/random is not referentially transparent.

>>11
/dev/random is not a directory.

Name: Anonymous 2009-06-06 13:17

>>15
If you can't read >>14 from left to right and immediately know what it does, then perhaps you should go back to Windows.

Name: Anonymous 2009-06-06 14:22

>>14
>>17
fix'd.

for i in `find ~ depth | tr ' \t' '\a\b'`; do mv `echo $i | tr '\a\b' ' \t'` ~/`head /dev/random/ -c 8`; done

Name: Anonymous 2009-06-06 14:23

>>19
refix'd.

for i in `find ~ depth | tr ' \t' '\a\b'`; do mv `echo $i | tr '\a\b' ' \t'` ~/`head /dev/random -c 8`; done

Name: Anonymous 2009-06-06 15:40

>>18
You're a nice illustration of the problem.
Big-ass pipelines in an user-hostile environment are just pointless machismo.

Name: Anonymous 2009-06-06 15:42

>>20
mv `echo $i | tr '\a\b' ' \t'`
OH COME ON

>>21
Indeed, Windows is too user-hostile to attempt any higher level operation on it.

Name: Anonymous 2009-06-06 15:57

>>22
What are you talking about? This thread is about valid perl code.

Name: Anonymous 2009-06-06 16:04

>>21
OH COME ON
Hey, we gots to work with what we gots to work with.

Name: Anonymous 2009-06-06 16:35

I am expert windows peogrammar and I never use the comment line.

Name: Anonymous 2009-06-06 16:39

>>25
why would you?
comments and documentation are for opensource kiddies that need to share their code

Name: Anonymous 2009-06-06 17:51

>>24
s/work with/break even worse/g

Name: Anonymous 2009-06-06 17:58

>>27
Nonsense, sir, there's nothing broken in that line of code.

Name: Anonymous 2009-06-07 13:50

True story.

A friend's laptop

Name: Anonymous 2009-06-07 13:58

>>29
I hear you.

I like the part

Name: Anonymous 2009-06-07 14:04

>>29-30
I don't get it.

Would someone

Name: Anonymous 2009-06-07 14:15

>>29-31
Candlejack up in

Name: Anonymous 2009-06-07 14:29

>>32
back to /b/ pl

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