Well, it's not like the feature is a Linux exclusive.
Posted on 12/06/2012 7:52:51 AM PST by ShadowAce
shucks, i’ve used linux for years. have stuck with suse for years starting with 8.0. using 11.4 right now.
i dual boot between windows & linux, but usually stay in linux for months at a time. have a few apps i use on windows occasionally, but not often. I am not a computer whiz by any means.
however, i don’t have to spend alot of time worrying about viruses and buying the latest windows optimizers, registry fixers and whatnot that lines everyone’s pockets except those that use the operating system.
i find it funny that while searching the internet, that i get constant notices that my computer has countless viruses, registry errors, and is running slow and i need the latest program to fix my computer, while i am searching in linux.
if their programs can’t even identify what operating system that i am running, i doubt that they can fix windows problems.
blessings, bobo
shucks, i’ve used linux for years. have stuck with suse for years starting with 8.0. using 11.4 right now.
i dual boot between windows & linux, but usually stay in linux for months at a time. have a few apps i use on windows occasionally, but not often. I am not a computer whiz by any means.
however, i don’t have to spend alot of time worrying about viruses and buying the latest windows optimizers, registry fixers and whatnot that lines everyone’s pockets except those that use the operating system.
i find it funny that while searching the internet, that i get constant notices that my computer has countless viruses, registry errors, and is running slow and i need the latest program to fix my computer, while i am searching in linux.
if their programs can’t even identify what operating system that i am running, i doubt that they can fix windows problems.
blessings, bobo
Well, with Linux, this becomes reality. Mind you, not all changes are easily made, and you may need a book on C programming ....
bkmk
You forgot Option three:
Option 3: Call your local guru and have him come out and set it up for you, the same as he did on your Windows box, because as a 'mouth breathing user', you didn't know how to set up the damn printer in Windows either.
I have approximately 25/30 home users that have been converted to Linux, and the transition was not terrible for any of them. Some found it completely painless. It has been a pretty easy fix for them. No more bugs, which is the main reason I was normally called out anyway, in most cases...
More and more, local service techs are becoming conversant with Linux, so relying upon 'snooty Linux forums' is really not your only recourse.
Pretty much any distro will get a web browser up and running. However, the problem is going to be all the plugins and codecs that allow for a rich browsing experience (Youtube videos, java apps, other multimedia). No linux distro (of which I’m aware) has all that stuff configured “out of the box” due to legal/licensing concerns. (there may be some I just don’t know of any). So there is a one time cost involved with getting all that stuff going. Printers the same way.
Least painless way to get that going is probably to pay or barter with a known expert to get over that one time hump. After that it should be smooth sailing for an install that just has to do basic browsing.
From a net cost perspective you’d still be way ahead particularly if you can work something out via barter.
Meant to say “least *painful*” - typing too fast.
I actually think that this may be one of the biggest differentiators between linux and the “Pay” OS’es. Since you pay a Windows tax or a Mac tax the various plugins and codecs can be all rolled into there and part of your tax is going to go to pay small but non-zero licensing fees.
To date this sort of arrangement just doesn’t exist in the linux world. So while a linux distro will “work” right out of the box, it won’t be fully functional in a true multimedia sense. Will this change going forward? It’s possible but quite frankly I don’t see it changing.
So viewed in this way, linux is a bit like buying unfinished furniture or maybe a cake mix, while the “pay” OS’s are like buying finished furniture or a pre-baked cake. And this is a direct consequence of some fairly fundamental things like business model, GPL licensing, and basic philosophy.
There are certainly websites (not to mention linux tools) that will get your multimedia stuff going for you but at some point there is some effort required, and some knowing where to find the websites or tools etc.
At the end of the day there are a whole lot of people that just want to open up a box, connect a few cables, hit the power button and see youtube videos of dogs jumping in swimming pools and have it all done by the time it’s time to eat Christmas lunch. For those people linux will never be their best option.
Question: If one has an Android phone, is there an advantage to using Linux?
In terms of using your phone, though--I doubt it. I don't have any issues accessing my phone on the rare occasions I need to, though.
There's definitely no disadvantage.
Obligatory post.
I like that pic.
I've been playing with that since it was Monad, and now do most of my work in a PS shell or the ISE. Anybody with a clue should have seen this coming when they put Jeffery Snover in charge of the Server division at MS.
“Command line”
Command lines are for idiot geeks that can’t write an effective user interface and think they’re being clever by memorizing arcane command line codes.
“More work gets done under Linux than with any flavor of Windows. “
Yeah, OK, and liberalism isn’t Communism.
I can do that much faster in the CLI than you can on the GUI.
Or, they're the pure, direct interface into the O/S and used heavily by actual system administrators with enough experience to know that there is no GUI that can effectively cover the millions of variations on commands needed to do everyone's job effectively.
Maybe that's it. :) ...or maybe you're right and tens of thousands of sysads really are idiots and have been doing it wrong all these decades.
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