Comments on: Years behind and slowing fast.

By: Joe Hallenbeck

Joe Hallenbeck — Tue, 24 May 2011 20:29:36 +0000

A browser is not a desktop operating system.

Oh, and btw, I certainly consider IE9 much better than Slowfox, and tied with Chrome.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 12 May 2011 21:04:00 +0000

Are you trolling? Of course people are willing to pay for a quality product. That doesn’t mean the best products aren’t free though, look at Firefox and Chrome when compared to Internet Explorer <_<.

By: Joe Hallenbeck

Joe Hallenbeck — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 09:46:09 +0000

Ubuntu is available for free because it isn’t worth crap.

When are you people going to accept that users are willing to pay for a quality product?

By: teel deer

teel deer — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 08:57:46 +0000

Heh.. i have to say: The mac game market has become a LOT better. With most major titles either being ported, or released on steam.

By: Sasha

Sasha — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:19:57 +0000

GIMP is fine, I have used it for years. It is perfectly capable and efficient.

OO is fine. Its charting is worse than Excel’s, but Excel’s charting fails for anything but trivial cases anyway. Base is worse than Access, but I have no need to use Access since I can use a real database.

The Mac game market is really as terrible as ever.

If OS X has good design, then a copy also has good design. Ubuntu is available to everyone and in many languages for free and it does not have the Windows virus problems that come along with the games.

Not everyone can afford to pay 200% for Apple computers, and many of those who can do not prefer to. It is a matter of many factors including preference. You and your preferences are not holy and special.

By: munkyBeatz

munkyBeatz — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 01:28:01 +0000

WOW, I’m so amazed at all the postings of ‘uber-geeks’ that just know that linux is a piece of crap rip off of windows and OSX. Linux user’s don’t use linux for the ‘look’, the underlying system is the reason linux is used,and why it is an ever-growing desktop sys.
Reading a lot of these post, is like reading the iPhone users sit around and bash Android, because ‘oh, it’s not as good as my fanboy apple brick, it’s not as purdy, and you have to use stupid widgets just to get functionality that my phone already has’ – I honestly read a post similar to that on a board, and anyone that uses Android would look at that statement and chuckle a bit. Anyways, if you don’t/haven’t used Linux, or anything for that matter, don’t jump on the interwebz and become the all-knowing, and bashing something you’ve obviously never used, and really don’t have a full grasp of.

I’m not saying that Linux/Windows/OSX is better than the other. Because each one in it’s own rights is the best use, when it comes to the end user. Ease of use, OSX/Windows always win out. Stability/Security, Linux wins hands down.

And to the OP, “It’s not at all uncommon to have the repo version as several versions behind what is in the wild and if what you want isn’t in the repo you are screwed.” WHAT WHAT WHAT? You too have obviously never used any distro for more than a few minutes on a live-cd at most. All I am going to say on that matter, is you should use google, even a 10yo can figure out this statement is way off. To the matter of “All distros are the same”, This statement makes me think that you’re only linux experience involved a screen shot on the internet. Of course the distros are going to looke the same, there are only a few heavyweight desktop environments on the linux scene. I just have to add, all distros are NOT the same, again this goes back to the base system and stability. File manager systems, kernel use, and plain old application handling, which is what you’ve complained about the most in your post, is handled very differently from distro to distro. Again, a simple google on your part could’ve saved you from making an incredibly incorrect statement.

You’re only REAL complaint seems to be centralized around “it looks like OSX/Windows, it’s not new and pretty”. Rather than bashing areas you know nothing about, you should’ve just stuck with your OpED about how you like things to look pretty. Oh, and in reply to the statement ‘The Desktop is Solved’. BAH, you’re current mindset of the status-quo desktop is solved, but I point you to the new Gnome-Shell 3.0. Again, google it, or maybe you can get your kid to help you with that.

By: adventure freak

adventure freak — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 01:01:42 +0000

The latest comment on linux hater finally reached 5000 comments, the maximum.

Well, quite an event.

By: Dr Loser

Dr Loser — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:34:31 +0000

Happy New Year!

(Wherever you are, and whatever you’re doing…)

By: reactosguy

reactosguy — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:28:54 +0000

“why not use windows instead, it simply offers alot more and it just works.”

There’s Mac too.

By: Thomas B.

Thomas B. — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 23:22:02 +0000

oops, oh well