I love Linux. I just love it. I've been using Kubuntu for several months now, and I wish I didn't have to boot XP. I wish Softwrap didn't exist and that Lexmark would get with the program and write Linux drivers; they are the only things keeping me tied to XP.
Linux is so much better by design. If you want to install an app, you just use your package manager to automagically install/uninstall it. No InstallSheild/NIS/Inno or anything like that. It's all standardized and easy.Also, Linux doesn't have a registry, which is wonderful. At last, no more huge, bloated, binary registry hives. No more viruses, o more svchost.exe, and on and on.Things just work in Linux, and WINE works fairly well for Window's apps. Except for Softwrap. Incompetent people…<hr>Well, SJF, I have to admit that windows has a better driver model that Linux, but what else? Kubuntu is microscopic compared to XP, it runs much faster, crashing apps (at least in my experience) never take the whole system with them, and it uses file headers instead of file extensions to determine filetypes. Even the clock is better.Please start naming specific things that make Windows better.E-Magination, to provide a centralized location for the OS to store its settings. But it's gone horribly wrong. And try repairing the registry with a text editor from a command line. And it's not Linux's responsibility to ensure compatibility with Windows. WINE doesn't run Softwrap because Softwrap uses some nasty tricks to try and make sure it's running on a certain piece of hardware. Games that try to modify the NT kernel with their copy protection also don't work.
I love when people are new to Linux and ignore it's faults. I've been partial to unix-based operating systems in the past, but until there is a build that can contest with the abilities of Windows (I'm not a fan of Vista at the moment.. I use XP) it's just foolish to pretend that Linux is superior. Yes, it is much more stable, and yes, some things they got EXTREMELY CORRECT in comparison to Microsoft and Apple, but they got a lot of things wrong, and even if they hadn't, there just isn't the mainstream support for it as there is for Windows, and even Mac (note: I hate Mac but I'm not anti-Mac like an idiot).
Gutsy Gibbon really had my hopes up to put windows to shame, and it came through for a large part, enough that I have a partition of it for fun and for work purposes, but it's just not a replacement yet… and pretending it is in an attempt to seem superior just shows how childish you are in regards to the whole scheme.ooh, get you!
If it's so good that it doesn't have a registry, why did they add it to Windows in the first place?
And it's WINE's fault Softwrap doesn't work.I think SJF's comment was the same length/longer than bendodge's blog. o_O
WINE doesn't run everything… And, why would Softwrap not want people to run it on linux?
Also everything better than Windows' clock is either prettier or bloated with crap
Or updates itself properly.
Mine doesn't, I have to set it to +1 hour, or it doesn't do the right time.E-Magination:
KDE. Evil.