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Atrocities · #1 December 16th, 2004, 11:02 PM

Windows = Almost any one can use.
OS9 = Only for yuppies and fanatics
Lynux = Only uber smart people and excessive computer nerds.

parabolize · #2 December 17th, 2004, 12:23 AM

"Windows = Almost any one can use."
My sister must be an idiot.
"OS9 = Only for yuppies and fanatics"
I hear it has good multimedia. Isn't 10 out?
"Lynux = Only uber smart people and excessive computer nerds"
Thank you but I'm not (maybe I am a nerd but that doesn't help). Seriously the install is easier than windows. Well maybe not if you plan to duel boot with windows but a clean install is easy.

deccan · #3 December 17th, 2004, 12:46 AM

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parabolize said:
Thank you but I'm not (maybe I am a nerd but that doesn't help). Seriously the install is easier than windows. Well maybe not if you plan to duel boot with windows but a clean install is easy.

IMHO, installing Linux, even dual-booting with Windows, is quite easy. Personally, my biggest problem is getting all the hardware to work correctly, especially if you have a new computer. I haven't tried Linux in over a year, but back then, getting it working on a laptop was a total pain, due to having to spend lots of time finding and testing drivers for things like video card, CD drive, fiddling around with stuff to get power management functions etc.

Right now, I have a Centrino laptop with Wi-Fi, a DVD writer combo drive, and a 64 meg video card. I can just imagine how much time I will have to spend to get everything working, time that I'd rather spend playing games. Go windows!

parabolize · #4 December 17th, 2004, 01:51 AM

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deccan said:

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parabolize said:
Thank you but I'm not (maybe I am a nerd but that doesn't help). Seriously the install is easier than windows. Well maybe not if you plan to duel boot with windows but a clean install is easy.

IMHO, installing Linux, even dual-booting with Windows, is quite easy. Personally, my biggest problem is getting all the hardware to work correctly, especially if you have a new computer. I haven't tried Linux in over a year, but back then, getting it working on a laptop was a total pain, due to having to spend lots of time finding and testing drivers for things like video card, CD drive, fiddling around with stuff to get power management functions etc.

Right now, I have a Centrino laptop with Wi-Fi, a DVD writer combo drive, and a 64 meg video card. I can just imagine how much time I will have to spend to get everything working, time that I'd rather spend playing games. Go windows!

I'm guessing windows came installed on the laptop? Laptops are famous for driver problems. If you uninstall that copy of windows, go to the store and buy a different copy of windows and install it, I would say there is a 50% chance it wouldn't use your hardware correctly. If you don't know what your doing with a laptop always buy it with your OS already installed.
BTW duel boots can go really bad during the repartition. Make iso of your hard drive, defragment and scan disk befor you do it.

Atrocities · #5 December 17th, 2004, 01:14 AM

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parabolize said:
"Windows = Almost any one can use."
My sister must be an idiot.
"OS9 = Only for yuppies and fanatics"
I hear it has good multimedia. Isn't 10 out?
"Lynux = Only uber smart people and excessive computer nerds"
Thank you but I'm not (maybe I am a nerd but that doesn't help). Seriously the install is easier than windows. Well maybe not if you plan to duel boot with windows but a clean install is easy.

The word almost should have cleared that misconception up right away.

Your sister is, I am sure, very smart.

Mac's = Hollywood. Just look for the little apple icon on all those computers you see in the movies.

You make my point about Lynux very well, thank you.

parabolize · #6 December 17th, 2004, 01:58 AM

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Atrocities said:

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parabolize said:
"Windows = Almost any one can use."
My sister must be an idiot.
"OS9 = Only for yuppies and fanatics"
I hear it has good multimedia. Isn't 10 out?
"Lynux = Only uber smart people and excessive computer nerds"
Thank you but I'm not (maybe I am a nerd but that doesn't help). Seriously the install is easier than windows. Well maybe not if you plan to duel boot with windows but a clean install is easy.

The word almost should have cleared that misconception up right away.

Your sister is, I am sure, very smart.

Mac's = Hollywood. Just look for the little apple icon on all those computers you see in the movies.

You make my point about Lynux very well, thank you.

Linux not Lynux, or do you know about some kind of unix I don't? How did I make your point? I spell it right? Mac has always done very odd advertising but they are not hollywood.

Atrocities · #7 December 17th, 2004, 02:06 AM

Nope, whookid oon phoniks wikred four mea.

Instar · #8 December 18th, 2004, 03:03 AM

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Atrocities said:
"Lynux = Only uber smart people and excessive computer nerds"

Mac's = Hollywood. Just look for the little apple icon on all those computers you see in the movies.

KDE is a pretty good GUI for Linux, it pretty much clones XP.

Macs aren't for art or hollywood or whatever. Any software for the Mac I can probably find an equivalent for Linux or Windows. Personally, I HATE OSX. What the heck is that edge scrolling insanity!?!?! It drove me insane with its complete and utter insane method of yanking the mouse around and no indicator of where the heck I was. Well, Im pretty sure it was the OSX gui doing that.

Gandalf Parker · #9 December 18th, 2004, 10:30 AM

As a network person one of the things Ive noticed is that if an office is running on Windows then you can always ask "who is your computer person" and they will all point at someone. Sometimes its some poor shmuck who had a home computer first and barely knows how to do installs, but there always is one. If its a MAC network and you ask the same question then they show you a buisness card that is sometimes a couple of hours drive away. The point is that a MAC office can run for years doing everything they want to do, documents, spread sheets, presentations, etc etc without ever worrying about it. And a Windows office cant.

Its harder to write things for the strict rules on a MAC but that has its pros and cons. The good stuff and necessary stuff gets ported, but tends to cost more. Any joe can write for Windows but that comes with compatability problems, crashes, familiarity with re-installs. Not so bad with the Last couple of Versions but still there.

Always beware of asking a guru which one you should use. Guru's are created by irritating operating systems. Dont ask the guy who can fix anything on the computer. Ask the guy who has been happily computing for years and still says he knows nothing of computers.

-- (not my sig)
unix is for people who know why it works.
linux is for people who want to know why it works.
mac is for people who don't want to know why it works.
dos is for people who want to know why it doesn't work.
windows is for people who don't want to know why it doesn't work.

Spoo · #10 December 18th, 2004, 01:38 PM

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Instar said:

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Atrocities said:
"Lynux = Only uber smart people and excessive computer nerds"

Mac's = Hollywood. Just look for the little apple icon on all those computers you see in the movies.

KDE is a pretty good GUI for Linux, it pretty much clones XP.

Macs aren't for art or hollywood or whatever. Any software for the Mac I can probably find an equivalent for Linux or Windows. Personally, I HATE OSX. What the heck is that edge scrolling insanity!?!?! It drove me insane with its complete and utter insane method of yanking the mouse around and no indicator of where the heck I was. Well, Im pretty sure it was the OSX gui doing that.

OSX is based on UNIX.

http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/unix/