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The usual stuff: lots of rants about the evils of Microsoft, accusing MS of things without any proof and basically equating any deals with Novell to selling one’s soul to Satan. FUD, in a run-of-the-mill sorta way.
Some classic quotes include:
WARNING: I’m donning my conspiracy theorist hat here.
and
I have, for over a decade, been a Linux zealot. Because of this I question every move that Microsoft makes. Under my microscope of conspiracy I place MS and usually I find every single nugget of FUD there is to find.
Well done. You’ve just described 99% of the Linux community. I couldn’t have said it better myself.
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“What’s really difficult is that Linux has gained so much within the last few years. The desktop has surpassed that of Windows in stability and usability.”
You mean back in the late 90s when the majority of home-based desktop PCs still used Windows 95/98 as the operating system of choice? Honestly, I don’t even want to draw comparison between your darling Linux and the NT 4.0 platforms people used back then for serious productivity, just to be fair.
“And the Samba team is right. Novell striking this deal with Microsoft shows a complete disregard to not only the patent-free nature of Linux but also of the Linux community and all it stands for and believes.”
Yeah, why not grow a spine and take everything back from Novell then, tough guy?
And then you’ve got people like Jim Zemlin at http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/may2007/tc20070525_325967.htm who think that patents and Linux would be a fine combination, if only …
It’s like watching a particularly bad disaster movie made by video artistes who used to specialize in thirty-second commercials for Krispy Kreme donuts. Let’s face it, guys. Y’all don’t stand a chance.
“ The desktop has surpassed that of Windows in stability and usability.”
Windows 3.1 had working sound.
Excuse me while I use my Linux desktop to play my music. Urgh, neither Banshee nor Amarok have an equalizer and my music sounds crap. Pulseaudio makes it crash and aRTs makes it sound scratchy.
Oh well, lemme use my Linux desktop to read a .doc file someone sent me. Oh damn, OpenOffice.org garbles up the formatting.
Oh well, lemme use my Linux desktop to play my shiny new Mass Effect 2 game. Oh !@#$, there’s no native Linux port and the game crashes under Wine.
Enough games, time to get serious. Lemme use my Linux desktop to do some accounting. ARRRRRRGH, there’s no Quicken for Linux, it doesn’t work right in Wine and GnuCash sucks!
Enough stress. I’m gonna relax by touching up my photos and speaking to my friends on Pidgin. Blender is cool, the GIMP’s alright; Photoshop’s way better but I don’t need it. And Firefox is the best browser ever. Wait a sec… I can get all that on Windows too, can’t I?!
Oh well. At least Linux is stable. Hmmm, my resolution sucks. Lemme change it… http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/linux-newbie/12283-cannot-change-resolution.html
“the GIMP’s alright”
You went down 50 points in my consideration Delano :P.
Do yourself a favor and try this out:
http://www.getpaint.net/
@Kommenter
Nah. I did that for dramatic effect. I already use Paint.net (and XnView has a few decent, basic image editing filters too). Gimp’s godawful, cumbersome interface and lack of features make it pretty useless for all but the most mundane of tasks. Like most FOSS, it’s way overrated, and inevitably gets touted by the freedomites as a replacement for Photoshop. Obviously, anyone who makes such a claim is not familiar with the power of PS.
@Delano
The word gimp and a positive adjective must never be written in the same sentence, dramatic effect/joke or not!
Still, you went back 50 points plus another 50 for gimp bashing :)
The funny thing is, paint.net is open source, however it’s considered evil proprietary software because it’s a .net app that runs on windows.
I say if a few developers can make an app this good on .net, then .net is a good thing.
@AntiFundies
1000 internets for that comment!
Even my hackintosh has working sound, and i haven’t even managed to get internet working.
@Kommenter
Actually, Paint.net is freeware but not open source. But only freedomites actually give a damn. :o)
The funny thing is, tell a Linux/FOSS zealot about how the GIMP lacks features, and they’ll almost certainly respond with, “yes but the average joe doesn’t need the features Photoshop offers”. Yet, GIMP itself has many features that the same “average joe” probably wouldn’t use.
Paint.net is even more average joe-friendly, has a much, much better interface, is plugin-expandable like the GIMP and is a smaller download. Best of all, its followers and developers make no pretense about it being a Photoshop replacement; something that definitely hurts the GIMP.
But despite all this, as you pointed out, no Linux/FOSS zealot will promote it. Not only is it not FOSS but it’s a .net application – and we all know that in the world of freedomites, the price and source model of an application is valued above its usability and features.
@Kommenter
My apologies. Paint.net is FOSS. D’oh.
@Delano
Yup, 100% FOSS, and that really shows the hypocrisy of freetards.
What they hate isn’t closed source software, it’s microsoft.
Otherwise they wouldn’t use things like cedega.
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