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Well Mr. K, obviously you haven't tried Ubuntu or, better yet(although not touted as loudly as Ubuntu), Mint. Both of these systems install with most of what you need to run, email or anything else, without ever going to a terminal to type unless a person desires to do so. I can run most of the windows aps I can't get for linux(which is not the fault of linux)with wine, play all my old games that I like, run the equivalent of office or, through wine, run office itself.

All of the office docs that I made on XP run just fine in the Open Office of linux, as for a double click to your email right out of the box that is also possible and, in fact, I run the same email on both linux and XP.

Your prejudist of Linux is not due to facts based on modern versions of linux, but on versions that were in existence as few as 2 years ago.

Not only is linux superior technically, it is superior in all ways but one, that one is the fault of software manufacturers not wanting to make progs for linux due to fear of MS retalitation.

Linux is an open source program, it installs ALL of your drivers, sees ALL of your hardware and stuff works when it finishes installing, especially Mint, which, in my opinion, is a better version of Ubuntu.

People don't run linux to feel superior, they run linux because it is virtually virus free, and things work on it, in short people use linux for much the same reasons that apple users use Apple products, to get away from MS and their heavy hand on the computer industry.

Well,...we do have this...from a Blog: Polar Bears and Penguins

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Friday, November 6, 2009

What if...Linux had it's own Commandments?

Sometimes we in the Linux "world" get a bit carried away with a piece of software. We get into out little geek niches and form clubs and setup forums. We have fun with it. Sometimes though, we get a bit "too" carried away. When you live in a digital world and you begin to spend too much time online, the line between reality and virtual reality can get hazy.

"If Linux were a great and demanding God of OS's, what might it demand from us?" is a topic I saw recently. I immediately had to have fun with this.

1) Thou shall worship no distro before me.

Behold that the distro is the messenger and it is the message they carry that is to be focused on, not the messengers themselves. I am the one and only OpenSource OS and the distros but carry my message in all variety of possible uses to the world.

2) Thou shall "tweak" thy install.

Lo my devs are good and righteous, but not even their splendid ( or otherwise) displays shall be so eminent that thou ( the end user) may not alter your install to your wishes, this is my promise to you.

3) Thou shall not demand instant gratification for free.

I give thee a gift called "search" use it wisely and harass not others to do for you that which you can do for yourself.

4) Beware of capitalists bearing promises.

My gifts are for all the world to use and no one, regardless of the riches they bring and the splendors they promise, shall intervene. Step not lightly into their house, for it is a gilded cage.

5) Take thyself not too seriously.

These digital wonders are not the periphery of life. Strange and incredible things lay beyond your front door. Lo I shall call it "outside". Go and explore this "outside" and let not your faces pale or your wrists ache there.

OK, I could only think of five instead of ten. I still think it's a tremendously funny thing to take some digitized code so seriously as to place it in the same arena as a deity.

People don't run linux to feel superior, they run linux because it is virtually virus free, and things work on it, in short people use linux for much the same reasons that apple users use Apple products, to get away from MS and their heavy hand on the computer industry.

Um, not quite. (And this is likely the reason for Linux' low "market share") We built and run Linux because we want an operating system that we can fix ourselves when problems arise and on that no one can ever take away from us.

I do not view the marketing of Linux as a particularly good thing. I'm not at all pleased with how I have to deal with Linux in the workplace right now. It's every bit as closed as Microsoft Windows and for similar "business" reasons.

I am cheered that a corporation has finally got a GUI over Unix correct. I am not cheered that our biggest ally (RedHat) hates me as much as Stallman does and that everyone who does not agree to his dictatorship of OSS is evil.

(My tagline in this post also includes Richard Stallman)