/prog/ - Linux — World4ch

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-25 9:13

So. I tried Linux a few months ago. I was suggested Ubuntu as the most user friendly one. So yeah, I install it.

Bam. Slower than windows fucking Vista. Windows FUCKING VISTA. Sound doesn't work. It takes 2-3 days to find out how to install FireFox. Adobe was a lost cause. File system was confusing(But that was probably with my inexperience using that style of filesystem, I'll admit) the colors were ugly, and the other colors to change the theme to were equally ugly. All guides for Ubuntu were outdated, and all the help forums I tried were empty.

In the end I never did get my sound to work, it made even the simplest tasks over complicated, and while I will admit some were due to my own inexperience with Linux, But some tasks seemed complicated just for the sake of being complicated, and most of all, time consuming. I've heard Linux being touted as a OS for programmers, but that's retarded. You'd spend more effort on it's time consuming tasks than with programming.

Not a troll, just wondering. Why should I use Linux?

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-25 9:15

>>1
YHBT

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-25 9:17

back to /g/

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-25 9:17

Firefox? isn't it included by default?

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-25 9:18

Firefox 1.5 was preinstalled on ubuntu when I installed it. Firefox 2.0 was out. Installing Firefox 2.0 should have been as easy as double clicking a file. Instead I had to unzip the tarball and do all this shit, since I didn't want to apt-get.

All the help I got was "do this". For someone who wants to know WHY it works, this was stupid.

Name: HAXUS THE GREAT 2010-03-25 9:19

HAXUS THE GREAT

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-25 9:19

>>4
He said he was using JEWBUNTU, so yeah.

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-25 9:21

tried using ubuntu a few months ago
firefox 1.5
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Name: Anonymous 2010-03-25 9:22

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Why+should+I+use+Linux%3F

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-25 9:22

LOL

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-25 9:39

Are you saying that this linux can run on a computer without windows underneath it, at all ? As in, without a boot disk, without any drivers, and without any services ?

That sounds preposterous to me.

If it were true (and I doubt it), then companies would be selling computers without a windows. This clearly is not happening, so there must be some error in your calculations. I hope you realise that windows is more than just Office ? Its a whole system that runs the computer from start to finish, and that is a very difficult thing to acheive. A lot of people dont realise this.

Microsoft just spent $9 billion and many years to create Vista, so it does not sound reasonable that some new alternative could just snap into existence overnight like that. It would take billions of dollars and a massive effort to achieve. IBM tried, and spent a huge amount of money developing OS/2 but could never keep up with Windows. Apple tried to create their own system for years, but finally gave up recently and moved to Intel and Microsoft.

Its just not possible that a freeware like the Linux could be extended to the point where it runs the entire computer fron start to finish, without using some of the more critical parts of windows. Not possible.

I think you need to re-examine your assumptions.

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-25 10:00

>>5
since I didn't want to apt-get
All the help I got was "do this"
I'd like to say IHBT, but I have indeed, even though 0/10 this path of trolling is very well-trodden.

Name: clever nerd joke 2010-03-25 10:07

SUDO APT-GET ME A SANDWICH

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-25 10:10

>>13
I thought we beat you all the way back to xkcdforums, Randall

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-25 10:34

>>14
what is this about rand(all) on our /prog/

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-26 11:24

>>11

Infact, sir, you are a troll.
See, usually an Operating System and bootloader are seperated.
Look at GRUB (GRand Unified Bootloader), which will boot Linux and chainboot into Windows.
Windows has it's own bootloader, bootman(ager), if one should remove that Windows shall not boot.
I know you are a troll, sir, but I cannot help but point you to the right direction.

Opensource operating systems do work without *any* MicroSoft code, since MicroSoft almost never publishes its code, and if it will one day, it will be under a "for view only" license.

Linux's contributors spent around 16 years building and refining kernel code, added with the work of all those who build opensource unix progams, and combine that, and you have yourself a working operating system, if you distribute it, it will be known as a "Distribution".

In other words: Linux is written without any Microsoft code, it will boot without any Microsoft code and will work without any Microsoft code

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-26 11:31

>>16
But how will it run without a windows under it.

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-26 12:15

>>16
Infact, sir, you are a troll.
And YHBT. >>11 is a classic pasta.

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-26 14:28

>>18
And YHBT. >>16 is a classic pasta.

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-26 15:21

>>1
Get a Mac if you want to use your computer instead of fixing it. Windows, Linux and BSD actually do not work.

Linux is a crack of shit; the only hope for a opensource os i can see is Haiku!

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-26 16:21

>>16
Go back to fucking /g/ with your poor grammar trolling.

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-26 16:41

>>21
This would all stop if people like you would stop being trolled. That's right I blame you, not the troll.

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-26 18:22

>>22
BUT HOW DOES IT RUN WITHOUT A WINDOWS UNDER IT???

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-26 18:45

>>20
Cool story bro. $5000 please.

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-26 19:38

>>22
How can you be trolled when you cannot... speak?

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-27 6:07

>>25
MMMMMMMMMMM!!!

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-28 7:30

>>1

WHY INSTALL FIREFOX when you have Lynx

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-28 13:18

Driving stick sucks. It's the car equivalent of running Linux... it's cheaper, but why would you do it?
- Mike Connor, Lead Firefox Engineer¹

¹http://twitter.com/mconnor/status/10758187541

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-28 14:01

>>28
My other car is Chrome

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-28 14:08

File system was confusing(But that was probably with my inexperience using that style of filesystem, I'll admit.

Not a troll

oh that is hillarious

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-28 14:09

my other lynx is a links

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-28 14:32

use Mint, it is a version of Ubuntu that doesnt freeze up as much and is faster

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-28 18:30

are you guys still feeding this old troll?

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Name: Anonymous 2010-11-25 11:30

Don't change these.

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