On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 04:50:29PM -0500, ken wrote:
> I use Ubuntu. It's what I'm using now.
>
> It does NOT live up to the hype.
I'm curious: what hype would that be? Ubuntu doesn't take out any
newspaper ads, buy SuperBowl airtime, or scroll messages on blimps. All
they do is make a powerful, useful resource available at no cost to the
public, and host a plethora of free, helpful information for anyone who
wants to use that resource. Oh, they also promote a model of cooperation
- you may wish to look up the meaning of "Ubuntu" - that rewards being
helpful to others.
Who, exactly, is doing the hyping here?
> Also it WILL crash (regardless of what some say) and sometimes when it
> does it is necessary to start a Windows operating system to get it to
> work correctly again. What BS.
You're absolutely right. Terrible, terrible BS.
> Most if not all video editing programs will not work with it (and yes I
> mean when run with the Windows emulation program).
Let's see: you are trying to run Windows chart programs, Windows passage
planning programs, Windows video programs, and use Windows methods ("I
DON'T LIKE COMMAND LINE TOOLS!") along with a Windows mentality... on an
operating system that's not Windows. Rather like replacing two thirds of
a Ferrari engine with Yugo parts, and wondering why all the little red
lights are coming on.
[A short pause to figure out a polite way to say this]
Is there a reason you expected it to work, or was this a *planned*
experiment in futility?
> Of course I expect to be 'flamed' for such honesty and openness. Fairs
> fair I guess. Flame on.
Not by me - although the crude bait in "honesty and openness" made me
smile. I just find it strange that there are people out there who take
millions of dollars of other people's effort and value it at nothing -
not even as worth spending the effort to learn how to use this amazing
resource - and then decide that the way to get around their ignorance is
to scream and demand, as loudly and as offensively as possible, in the
hope that someone will come along and spend *their* effort to say
"please, please stop screaming. I'll give you a magical FREE solution to
all your problems if you just stop insulting us!"
For some reason, I don't see them trying this on Microsoft when their
files - years of stories, tax records, whatever - are destroyed by
malware, but you find them in every Linux forum. Could it be that the
Linux community, due to their welcoming and helpful attitude, looks like
easier victims? I really wonder.
The saving grace is that the Linux community is totally aware of this
kind of behavior. Responses range from finger-pointing and laughter,
through adding the noise-maker's address to the "Ignore" list, to...
well, expositories like this one.
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* Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://LinuxGazette.NET *
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