But... is Linux a REAL consumer OS?
Or is it just a developer OS for cultists?
Personal computing discussed
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bfg-9000 wrote:
whm1974 wrote:How hard is it to read a few documents or play around the system? Or for that matter use a freaking search engine?
morphine wrote:Yeah, users reading documentation or "working around the system." Let me know when you meet those outside of forums like these.
No offense, though, I do understand your point but it simply doesn't correlate with reality. And in all fairness, should it? It's 2017, and much like a car will drive you from point A to point B, a computer is merely a tool for X. We care about computers, users don't. Nor should they. People can drive cars and use phones just fine without knowing how they work.
Redocbew wrote:Thin Man wrote:Let's be fair, I kinda like penguins...Although I do have to say I've never found a six foot one that could run a hundred miles an hour...But then again, I'm not Finnish or Swedish...I guess it makes a difference...
Little known fact: There is a species of subterranean penguin living underneath the Bonneville salt flats. Now and then small dust clouds can be seen there which are often mistaken for prototype vehicle testing. It's the penguins, and they bite.
morphine wrote:Flipping that point on its head, all of us are no strangers to tons of situations that could have been avoided if users would just have some common sense about their computing devices.
Redocbew wrote:Thin Man wrote:Let's be fair, I kinda like penguins...Although I do have to say I've never found a six foot one that could run a hundred miles an hour...But then again, I'm not Finnish or Swedish...I guess it makes a difference...
Little known fact: There is a species of subterranean penguin living underneath the Bonneville salt flats. Now and then small dust clouds can be seen there which are often mistaken for prototype vehicle testing. It's the penguins, and they bite.
morphine wrote:Flipping that point on its head, all of us are no strangers to tons of situations that could have been avoided if users would just have some common sense about their computing devices.
But that's an actual social problem entirely: put diesel in your gasoline car, your friends will mock you mercilessly for years. But have no precautions against data loss or do something bone-headed to your computer, and "yeah I don't know anything about computers lolz."
JustAnEngineer wrote:I used to be quite the OS/2 enthusiast, setting up my systems to dual boot WinNT or Win2K with OS/2 and eventually even with SuSE linux. But with every release, microsoft made it harder to set up multi OS systems and I finally gave up and went with windows because I needed Excel (as primitive as it was and remains). I'd have to say, Linux was more interesting back when coding your own dos batch routines resembled unix or linux utilities. Back when people would actually buy file managers and code editors because the ones in windows sucked.Airmantharp wrote:But what really gets me are the Linux gaming evangelists. Square peg, round hole, and 'building their identity around it' is just getting started.... that religious fervor that the Linux faithful apply to anything computing works overtime to push people away and toward the Windows solution that just works.whm1974 wrote:You can play games just fine with Linux...just brew it! wrote:You've just reinforced his point quite nicely.... Until new GPUs routinely get feature-complete and stable Linux driver support, Linux will be a second-class OS for gaming.
If I had more time this morning, I would link to three or four previous whm1974 threads where we've covered this topic before.
Three decades ago, a friend of mine was delighted to show me an IBM PC/XT software emulator running on his Amiga 1000. It ran rather slowly, but it played the X86 MSDOS version of Moria faithfully on the Amiga's 7.2 MHz Motorola 68000, providing the performance of a 1.1 MHz Intel 8088. My friend told me that "It's now how fast the bear dances--It's that the bear dances at all."
For the hundred dollar cost of Microsoft Windows, you could avoid a tremendous amount of headache and have a much better gaming experience.