Thomas Mailund is having serious issues with Ubuntu....
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Linux Is Making Me Insane: Grappling with Ubuntu, the free, open-source operating system. I have Ubuntu on my PC through a dual-boot. I also purchased a USB wireless card which was guaranteed to be compatible with Ubuntu plug-and-play. It does work...80% of the time. The problem is that it "…
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I just installed Hardy, the brand new version of Ubuntu Linux, on the household's two Dell PCs. They're a Dimension 4550 mini-tower and an Inspiron 6000 laptop, and I'm happy to say that everything's running fine so far. (Almost.) The release is so new that Google hasn't even had time to update…
Hehe, this post is getting way more attention that I had anticipated. Or wanted, really.
I must have touched a nerve here, 'cause clearly a lot of people feel strongly for Linux.
I had just had to reboot for the second time this morning and was angry as hell, so I just had to let off steam, which I did in the post.
I'm not really a Linux hater, I promise ;-)
It has been my OS of choice since 1995 and until spring this year when I got a Mac. In all that time, I haven't had that many problems with it.
Now, obviously, I have, but the post is perhaps a bit stronger on that, than what I really feel when I have cooled down.
It has been my OS of choice since 1995 and until spring this year when I got a Mac
that's what makes your complaints more important. and you ain't grandma....
Well, to be completely fair, I'm likely to complain just as much about my Mac once I start using it full time and stress it a bit more ;-)
I find OS X to be much "cleaner" than Windows and better thought out (in GUI terms at least) than Linux/GNOME. GNOME has a "not quite finished" feel that I find exhausting after extended usage. My only complaint with OS X is the Dock, a Nextstep holdover that's always getting in the way of drag-boxes.
(I wish Mac and PC weren't still referred to as if they were different platforms, when current Macs are identical to current PCs apart from EFI and a few minor hardware tweaks. Comparisons of the two are largely comparisons of OS X to XP/Vista/Linux et al, not of two distinct hardware designs as they were before 2005.)