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The Day of Linux on the Desktop

Name: Anonymous 2009-08-12 16:32

http://imagechan.com/images/a255f6be65ed5754a83b97553c539b5e.jpg

Name: Anonymous 2009-08-13 12:25

Ubanto is better for the average web-email-music-photos user than Windows if they are too poor to afford macs

Name: Anonymous 2009-08-13 13:00

This thread is /g/ Quality

Name: clever guy 2009-08-13 13:13

not programming

Name: Anonymous 2009-08-13 13:14

I tried to use Linux as my desktop. Really. But I can't.
It doesn't have a nice replacement for ACDSee for doujin browsing, doesn't have a program able to make m3u8 playlists, iceweasel fucks up the images, etc.

Name: Anonymous 2009-08-13 13:16

>>44
iceweasel
Don't use debian then

Name: Anonymous 2009-08-13 13:20

>>44
What about Comix?

Name: Anonymous 2009-08-13 13:33

>>44
What about GQview?

Name: Anonymous 2009-08-13 13:38

>>44
>It doesn't have a nice replacement for ACDSee for doujin browsing
What's wrong with any of the many image viewing programs there are on Linux? Gwenview (KDE 4) works great for me.

>doesn't have a program able to make m3u8 playlists
I seriously doubt this, although I don't know for sure. Why not just use Amarok/Rhythmbox? I prefer Rhythmbox myself.

Name: Anonymous 2009-08-13 13:48

What about Damn Small Linux?

Name: !MILKRIBS4k 2009-08-13 13:48

Will we ever see the day of OS 9 on the desktop again! I sure hope so!

Name: Anonymous 2009-08-13 13:52

>>42
This.

Name: Anonymous 2009-08-13 14:28

>>50
Young man, you shut your anus!

Name: Anonymous 2009-08-13 14:30

>>50
I have an OS 9 install on an ancient G3. Using it makes me feel exactly as crippled as being forced to use Windows does, but at least it's more responsive than Vista.

>>51
There's only one moron arguing for Windows. That's significantly better than the equivalent thread on /g/ would be.
But yeah, the discussion isn't very interesting.

Name: Sagey McSagerson 2009-08-13 14:47

>>53
ahhh but is great fun for trollan

Name: Anonymous 2009-08-13 14:59

>>54
Back to /v/, please.

Name: Anonymous 2009-08-13 15:11

>>55 SpoilersYou suck cocks

Name: !MILKRIBS4k 2009-08-13 15:34

>>52
Why would it be open!
>>53
Crippled! Answer me why! It was a great OS, much ahead of its time in many ways!

Name: Anonymous 2009-08-13 15:40

>>45
Sure is great having to spend countless weeks finding a distribution that works for him when no distribution works for the average person.

You prattle on about freedom and owning your machine, but that's bullshit when you spend countless hours trying to get it to do anything. That's when the machine truly owns you, and you have lost freedom to your machine.

IHBT.

Name: Sagey McSagerson 2009-08-13 15:43

>>58 Has no clue what he's talking about.

[overline]Back to /g/, please. [/overline]

Name: Anonymous 2009-08-13 15:46

>>53
FUK U APPLE IS THE BEST AT USABILITY

Name: Anonymous 2009-08-13 15:53

>>60
indisputable facts right there as shown in many studies
thats why grandmothers, artist and musician use macs

Name: Anonymous 2009-08-13 15:55

>>59
Sure thing. I've used Fedora Core and later Fedora, I've been used by Mandrake and later Mandriva. I've tried Gentoo and a couple other crackerfuck distributions like Arch. I haven't tried Ubanto yet, Ubanto scares me. I'd rather go with Debian.

I have no clue what I'm talking about. Clearly.

Name: Anonymous 2009-08-13 15:59

>>57,60
For all of OS X's faults, at least it has a CLI. Seems kind of a waste to develop an entire OS and then not let users use most of it, but that's exactly what OS 9 did.

>>59
Quit giving him the attention.

Name: Anonymous 2009-08-13 16:17

That's when the machine truly owns you, and you have lost freedom to your machine.
CRAWWWLING IIIIIIIN MY SKIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIN
THESE WOUUUUUUUUUNDS THEY WIIIIIIILL NOT HEEEEAAAAAAAAAL

Name: !MILKRIBS4k 2009-08-13 16:29

>>63
How many general users use a CLI! To the average user it doesn't mater!

Name: Anonymous 2009-08-13 16:33

>>63
Oh great, the "Macs run Unix" myth again. Just because you can telnet out to a real machine doesn't mean Macs are any more Unix-like than Windows. Stop listening to Apphole's completely made-up marketing hype, and just use an OS that isn't fundamentally crippled from the ground up and laden with 40 pounds of DRM everywhere you look.

Name: Anonymous 2009-08-13 16:34

>>65
There's more to the world than average users. Aiming for mediocrity gets you the attention of the mediocre.
Remember the Apple I? Those were good days.

Name: Anonymous 2009-08-13 16:35

>>65
* How many general users use a CLI? For the average user, it doesn't mater!

Name: Haxus The Mediocre 2009-08-13 16:39

Haxus The Mediocre

Name: Anonymous 2009-08-13 16:45

>>63
Exactly what part of OS 9 do you think users were restricted from by not having a suite of command-line text filters piled on top?

Name: Anonymous 2009-08-13 16:48

>>70
Any part the developers didn't explicitly waste time writing a GUI for.
That's without even getting into the fact that GUIs are a suboptimal interface for most things you'd want to use a computer for. But of course, dipshits like you don't understand there's more to a box of blinkenlights than a checkbox and an OK/Apply/Cancel button set.

Name: Anonymous 2009-08-13 17:03

>>71
CLI shit isn't a natural part of an OS, it's a sign of developer laziness.  You can do far more with comprehensive GUIs and inter-application scripting than by reciting nonsense to whatever loose code fragments someone left cluttering up your /bin.  The only reason so many UNIX programs are CLI-native is because there was never a good portable GUI standard.

Name: Anonymous 2009-08-13 17:12

>>72
protip: it's faster to type than to mouse clicky. always has been, always will be, hurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Name: Anonymous 2009-08-13 17:15

>>72
In a sense it's good to know you're a troll, but I actually have to deal with people who really believe that IRL. I'm still waiting for one of them to write a GUI for grep.

It's like arguing about the utility of sight with a blind man. Or not even a blind man, just someone who insists on keeping his eyes closed at all times.

Name: Anonymous 2009-08-13 17:19

>>74-san. Yes the blind man can understand why sight is important. The True Believer who was told to close his eyes only knows what his Leader allows him to see.

Name: Anonymous 2009-08-13 17:21

>>72
CLI tools are still very useful, and I'm not talking about UNIX in particular. There's also GUIs which integrate their own scripting languages, and allow executing user-written commands within them. A GUI should be used to considerably accelerate a user's task, not to just dumb it down for some computer illiterate folk to find easy to use.

Name: Anonymous 2009-08-13 17:27

>>73
Nope, not even close.

>>76
There's also GUIs which integrate their own scripting languages, and allow executing user-written commands within them.
…like OS9.

A GUI should be used to considerably accelerate a user's task, not to just dumb it down for some computer illiterate folk to find easy to use.
Also like OS9.

Name: Anonymous 2009-08-13 17:41

>>77
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS-9

Unless that's the OS 9 you mean, you're blatantly wrong about it having a scripting language.

Name: Anonymous 2009-08-13 17:43

>>78
Seriously?  Have you ever heard of a Mac?

Name: Anonymous 2009-08-13 17:52

>>79
Macs run OS X, not that OS 9 thingy whatever that is.
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