“Look at how your competition manages to handle security issues.”

One of the funniest comments I have ever seen on a Linux blog.

“It’s possible that I see KDE because I’m a Linux nut — but the task bar, clock area, and default settings just look a lot like K-Panel to me.”

It also looks similar to the previous windows taskbars.

“Compiz can manage those 3D effects with a simple onboard Intel card, and Vista requires a Dodge Viper class video card “

Really, so am I tripping when I can use the 3D Windows flip with an onboard Intel card.

“Linux has better support for software.”

...Really?

Also the comments are very intelligent and mature. :D

“It’s possible that I see KDE because I’m a Linux nut — but the task bar, clock area, and default settings just look a lot like K-Panel to me.”

The Microsoft time machine in action again. It’s not like Vista first used that visual style and screenshots of that were available years before KDE4 was even announced.

“Compiz can manage those 3D effects with a simple onboard Intel card, and Vista requires a Dodge Viper class video card “

I’m tripping too – Aero and Flip-3D work just fine on my netbook.

“Don’t ask a user if they want to open their computer up for sharing to home, work, or public — block off all sharing unless a user asks to turn it on.”

But it doesn’t ask you about “sharing”. It asks where you are in terms of Home, Work or Public. It even explains what will and will not work in each case, and makes recommendations. And it doesn’t turn the firewall off for any of them.

If the networking was locked down by default, he’s be whining that sharing and connecting to network resources was difficult. Microsoft are damned if they do, damned of they don’t.

I 'm a bit disappointed he called it “linux”, and not “GNU/Linux”. Every piece of technology with a slash in it’s name was a dismal failure, so I can’t wait for “GNU/Linux” to join the pack. OS/2, Commodore Plus/4, PL/1, GNU/Linux … the list just keeps growing. I mean, if you are smart enough to make something that works, you should be smart enough to give it a name that’s spelled the same way it’s pronounced…

As regards the article itself, only the fact that he blaims a beta os for not having enough 3rd party software support is enough to give you a idea about the mental abilities of the “author”. Not to mention he compares a beta of linux with a beta of windows. Because a comparison between final products is obviously too much for linux, since windows actually leaves the beta stage before being released to the public, unlike linux.

“(Of course, Compiz can manage those 3D effects with a simple onboard Intel card, and Vista requires a Dodge Viper class video card — but this article isn’t supposed to be about Vista…)”

Strange, I am posting this from a laptop with an Intel on-board VGA and Aero enabled. How come?

“(BTW, why can’t you just prompt me for an admin password?)”

Funny thing is, that’s one GP setting and it will do precisely that.

@ChrisTX:

Funny thing is, you could summarise all of this “settings” crap on a twenty page Wiki, complete with screen-shots, and it would solve every single problem that Loons complain about. Why has nobody done this? I think the word “contempt” comes into play here.

I’d love to see an equivalent Wiki for Ubuntu problems, for example.

@DrLoser

Such a wiki for Ubuntu would be full of half-solutions and admissions that the problem actually exists but cannot be fixed, and very few actual solutions, so it would not be good PR for linux.

So the freetards prefer to say that linux “is perfect for desktops and laptops” (actual quote from an ubuntu CD) and let the user bump into the problem without warning. Then, the half solutions or the admissions that the problem exists are handed to each user personally through ubuntu forums, and the thread is then locked. The brilliant part of this method is the evidence that ubuntu has so many problems are buried in the mess that’s ubuntu forums, so freetards can keep claiming linux is perfect to new users.

Funny, when I tested the Windows 7 Public Beta there was no software incompatibility save for a few… no I mean one (1) program… no I mean shell extension that didn’t work… no what I mean is, it worked, but one (1) feature was inaccessible and had to be constantly re-enabled.

Well that’s the entirety of the issues I encountered, all in all Windows 7 Beta(software support and otherwise) was better than Vista.

MS had IMO redefined the word “beta”.
While Linux has redefined the word “stable”.

Not at all: a stable has always been something that horses bolt from. And then you lock the gate.

Horses are more intelligent creatures than they are normally given credit for.

“Funny, when I tested the Windows 7 Public Beta there was no software incompatibility save for a few… no I mean one (1) program… no I mean shell extension that didn’t work… no what I mean is, it worked, but one (1) feature was inaccessible and had to be constantly re-enabled.”
That is because the breaking changes came with Vista. Windows Vista SP1 and higher and Windows 7 have the equal support for software in that means.

@ DrLoser: I LOL-ed, alot.

@ CrisTX:
I was merely referring to the supposedly lousy software support in windows compared to Linux, which is a megalomaniacal lie (Nixon level I think), but even if it wasn’t – admittedly I never tested vista pre SP1 – there is always VMware/Virtual Box/Virtual PC and on Win7 the super easy XP Mode.

And of course the fact that Windows 7 Beta is a perfectly well working OS with minor issues, while … oh Hell we all know the crap Linux is in any form, shape or size.

I really, seriously, wish I could vote this one up more than once. It just has that perfect set of Loon thoughts, in combination. We shall not see its like again (well, actually, we will).

Vote up, you say?

Well why not; the “MS ripped of KDE4” nonsense by itself is more than enough to be worth it.

To be honest though, it really is insane not to have an antivirus installed, you’d be losing all those definition update notifications, a simple joy for a simple life :)

“Windows 7 rips off KDE”

I remember saying that on my old site. Clearly Windows 7 looks like KDE but I now admit they are not ripped off, just Microsoft trying to gain negative press.