What Keeps You Off of Windows? 2071
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from the broken-panes dept.
J. J. Ramsey asks: "schnell has already asked the question What's Keeping You On Windows? It seems only fair to ask the opposite question. For those of you who have elected to not use Windows, what keeps you away from it? Concerns about stability? Security? Dislike of Microsoft's business practices? Or are you simply a fan of your chosen platform and just don't care about Windows one way or the other?" Might recent events sway your decision to keep Microsoft's premier software offering off of your computer?
Consistency (Score:5, Funny)
Sasser (Score:5, Funny)
What Keeps Me Off of Windows? (Score:2, Funny)
I just simply hate Microsoft (Score:2, Funny)
countdown (Score:3, Funny)
(This coming from a Windows/Mac user.)
Descartes answered it best (Score:1, Funny)
POST counting memory... following blue-screen (Score:2, Funny)
Thankfully modern POST routines skip many power-up tests - so most of the time it is GRUB keeping me off of Windows
Oh... and the other alternatives that GRUB permits...
Well... (Score:2, Funny)
Samba and Wine keep me off Windows, I just can't find reliable alternatives on the Windows platform
Re:I'm cheap... (Score:0, Funny)
Re:The fact that it is so difficult to administer. (Score:4, Funny)
I still don't know how to set up DNS under Win2K.
Did you try asking the dancing paperclip? He claims he has all the answers...
Re:One thing (Score:5, Funny)
Literally, I stay off of windows because too much stress and they break.
Same is true for GLASS windows.
Windows = prostitute (Score:3, Funny)
I'd rather have a stable relationship, that's why I pick Linux.
Re:Very rare (Score:2, Funny)
I must say that "Windows has finally caught up to Linux" is certainly an unusual argument.
KFG
Re:The fact that it is so difficult to administer. (Score:5, Funny)
Setting up DNS on UNIX is quite complex. Whole books have been written on the subject.
And books being written on a subject doesn't make it complex. Whole books [dummies.com] have been [dummies.com] written on [dummies.com] MANY topics [dummies.com] that are [dummies.com] relatively simple [dummies.com].
Re:Lack of killer applications (Score:3, Funny)
Berkley Systems' screensaver.
You know you have a winning OS when the most popular application sold for it addresses what your computer should do when you're not using it.
And what was the second most popular Windows application?
An un-installer.
I rest my case.
Re:I live without Windows (Score:4, Funny)
Three words (Score:2, Funny)
Re:One thing (Score:2, Funny)
Re:What keeps me off? (Score:5, Funny)
Actually, I'd say it's ironic, not just close minded. I mean, have you seen some of the gurus of "open source" lately?
Re:One thing (Score:5, Funny)
But real-life analogies to computer problems generally suck, so who knows.
Re:The fact that it is so difficult to administer. (Score:5, Funny)
Then stop rebooting it every ten minutes.
Re:I'm easy (Score:3, Funny)
He said unexplained.
;-)
Care to share the the "power button set to restart X" trick?
TIA
I would blame.... (Score:5, Funny)
No, I would blame Firestone.
Re:I live without Windows (Score:5, Funny)
Cheer up. You're equally smart as neither one of you knows the difference between "then" and "than".
Re:I live without Windows (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I'm cheap... (Score:5, Funny)
Unlike when your RPM database gets corrupted or when RedHat inadvertantly puts the wrong information on glibc and everyone upgrades and is left with a machine that you can only reinstall the OS on (the shortest path).
Look, if you cared that much about my stupid post, you would have pointed out that Linux isn't an operating system or platform. It's a kernel. Nothing more.Further you shouldn't assume that redhat is the only distribution, or that I even use red hat. I don't think I even mentioned red hat in the post, come to think of it. Odd...
Something goes wrong enough to where this is a feature?
Have you used Windows lately?As opposed to the 1000s of games on the Windows box that all their friends are playing. Could be that you have only the default 5 games installed on the Windows box and they are tired of them and that's why they don't want to use those?
Yes, to put it back into context from left field "Games that come with Linux" was the operative term. Darnit, I called it Linux again, you should have corrected me. What kind of old timey know nothing snob are you?Proof of that which exists today? or are you still living in 1995?
Yep, it's no secret. Don't believe me? Buy any third party firewall with application level blocking. Norton internet security catches most of them.Heh, yeah... those wonderful 'man' pages. When there is documentation, it is completely dry when having simply one example of a very common use would answer 90% of all questions about it. Linux documentation (and even Unix documentation for the most part) is seriously lacking. It's written by engineers for engineers. No examples, just lists of the 200+ command line options for every program with almost no direction of which ones are useful together.
Ouch. Sounds like fun. Actually, I've only really needed to resort to man pages a couple of times. There's this great thing here in the 21st century called the internet.Who cares, neither of them kill babies and eat them raw. I don't idolize either of them, they are just humans like me, not a god, and not worthy of religion.
Babies? Raw? You're right. It was a joke, specifically engineered for a single brief chuckle, for those inclined to think it was funny. If you need help this definition [reference.com] comes in handy.One word: Slackware! (Score:3, Funny)
'nuff said.
Isn't this sort of ironic? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:My default Linux install is just more USEFUL (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Consistency (Score:4, Funny)
Reboot chimp too expensive (Score:3, Funny)
Quote that nobody on /. will see (Score:2, Funny)
"Never ask a man what sort of computer he drives. If it's a Mac, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him?"
Tom Clancy
What keeps me of windows? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:What keeps me off? (Score:5, Funny)
Whatever [lugos.si] can [computec.ch] you [lugos.si] mean? [linux.org]
Re:What keeps me off? (Score:5, Funny)
a) Alan Cox, you are a scary, hairy man; and
b) I now know why Perl is such a mess: clearly larry couldn't see the code he was writing from behind that moustache.
No offence, you're all smarter than me and I love you, but by the law of the school yard that makes poking fun of you okay.
Re:I live without Windows (Score:2, Funny)
it's all sound the same for my french ears
Re:I live without Windows (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Why not windows? (Score:2, Funny)
Yeah, like ANYONE pays for windows software. haha.
Re:You must not be a Perl programmer... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I live without Windows (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I live without Windows (Score:2, Funny)