Any Ubuntu users banging around in here? (Linux Thread)

km · Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 6:48 am

I don't really understand all the hate that Vista gets. Yes, it uses a lot of RAM. Guess what? Wasted RAM is RAM that is sitting unused. It's a solid OS that I have seriously never had a problem with that fixes a lot of things you just accepted as broken in XP. It's not the same revolution that 2k/XP was, but an improvement is still an improvement.

Anyway, I'm a Gentoo user. (Actually, my CFLAGS are -O2 --march=native, but don't tell anyone)

When I was rebuilding my fileserver, I tried to use Ubuntu server at first but the installer was so awful that it was honestly far easier for me to just install Gentoo from scratch.

Kubuntu is installed on a second partition on my laptop but I might have booted into it, what, once? KDE4 just isn't polished at all. They've actually managed to remove basic features from basic components. For example, in KDE4, you can't remove the tab bar from Konsole. What if, uh, I don't use tabs? Everyone goes apeshit when Vista has the audacity to use RAM to cache stuff from disk, but let's just remove functionality from a flagship project trying to compete with the great multipaned devil.

If you asked me even two months ago I would never imagine I'd be saying this, but how good Vista is has scared linux off of my desktop.

Certain things are a lot easier in windows. Certain things are a lot easier in windows. Don't get stuck in a rut of trying to pick sides; any tool that makes getting the job done easier is a good tool. It may not be the best tool, but it's still a good one.
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km · Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 9:54 am

oops, that last bit was supposed to be more like "certain things are easier in windows, certain things are easier in linux..."

i will say that installing software on windows sucks ass
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km · Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 12:10 am

God aero makes windows such a hog I mean requiring a hardware 3D accelerator I mean jesus

OH GUYS LOOK COMPIZ ITS SO PRETTY

Not directed at anyone in this thread, but I need to vent my frustration with the linux community somewhere
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