Oh, so there are no problems with Linux today? It runs flawlessly and without any configuration issues? Apparently the people here need to be clued in on your 9 year old and the tale of the 100% flawless Linux installation that has never experienced one issue ever.
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewforum.php?f=46&sid=f2543a7796aa7900ed27ae89feb8867e
But obviously they are all spouting “obsolete experience” to denigrate the holy Linux OS.
If you really are as tech literate as you assume, you would know that all OS have issues, and that none of them are flawless experiences regardless of the example of your 9 year old supposedly setting up network printers without you apparently helping.
I offered a truthful recounting of my usage, that only irked you because it wasn’t 100% positive in showing how awesome Linux is supposed to be over “winblows” “microsuck” “micro$haft” “windoze” or whatever name you guys come up with. Sorry to disappoint, but having to get Flash to work properly, wrestling with Samba, spending hours trying to get working sound drivers or getting a resolution on my monitor above unacceptably low, not being able to use anything but default settings on my printer, having every question I ask be answered with me having to type out long lists of terminal commands or editing X.org files (when they didn’t just say RTFM), and having to tell family members that {insert program here} isn’t available, and not having them want to use {insert generic Linux equivalent here}...no to mention kernel panics, unrecognized wireless cards, and multiple other issues that I had to waste hours of my free time on don’t exist in your magical problem-free Linux world, but what I dealt with was by no means abnormal. At one time I had 6 machines, 5 that were Linux, one that was Windows. Now it’s zero on Linux.
“I have to believe that your anecdotal experience is either an anomaly, the result of poor decisions on your part, or the result of trying to get something to run on Linux that wasn’t designed for it.”
And THAT’s the attitude why next to no one uses this as their daily OS unless they are doing next to nothing with it.
Wow--Pretty long post to shoot down a strawman. I never said that, did I?
My problem with you is that you come onto Linux threads for the express purpose of denigrating it and calling it trash--all based on some limited experience you had years ago. Of course there are issues with Linux--just like there are with every single OS on the market. Your problem is that you cannot accept that there are some people that prefer Linux over Windows, that have needs other than your own, and prefer to work in a manner other than you do.
I do find it interesting that my anecdotal experience is somehow less valid that yours.
No--that's the attitude that comes from watching one poster come onto Linux threads for only one reason--to badmouth it and provide no meaningful contribution to the discussion whatsoever.
When a person genuinely wants assistance, I am more than happy to provide it. I've assisted dozens of FReepers with Linux questions--and they've all been happy to get it.