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Jun 3, 2010 4:01 PM
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A weasel word that is a standard part of the arsenal of any discerning FOSS/Linux zealot. Its highly flexible meanings include, but are not limited to, the following:
- any software the zealot disapproves of.
- software designed to run on CPUs more powerful than Pentium IIIs.
- KDE if you use Gnome, Gnome if you use XFCE, etc.
- any software Microsoft writes.
- software more useful than FOSS offerings.
- anything that takes up “too much” HD space, even in the age of 500g, 1t and 1.5t harddrives.
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It’s always funny to hear how Windows would be bloated, requiring some GB of disk storage and how Linux doesn’t.
That is true, but mainly due to Windows having SxS which Linux lacks by all means and which allows Windows to deliver excellent backwards compatibility. But oh, I think backwards compatibility is bloat as well!
Well.. i’d say this qualifies as a TM for sure!
Therefore: my vote.
@ChristX, but MicrosoftForcesYouToUpdate™ right? Why would they need backwards compatibility?
Funny thing is that FOSS tools are SLOWER in linux than in Windows.
The linux version of firefox, for example, runs slower on sites with widgets compared to it’s Windows version, hardware acceleration on VLC is crap at Ubuntu and exellent at Windows, avidemux needs dependencies on Linux but not in windows, you get the point.
As you say, 'boat’ is an ambiguous word. Linux has less bloat on a KERNEL level, but don’t get me started on all the needless, useless, horrible bloat that is the Xserver, PulseAudio, the shared library system and other things like that
http://ngc891.blogdns.net/?p=92
Size grows exponentially with no QA at all. What could possibly go wrong?
I especially love the “too much hard drive space” argument considering most of the kiddies claiming this are pirating the internet from their dorm rooms.
I guess a 300MB application is a big deal when that same space could be used to store more anime.
For more yuks, see this from one of the commenters:
http://janvandermeiden.blogspot.com/2011/11/linux-kernel-size.html
And venturing off the path of Loon and into actual first-order analysis of the data, it’s interesting that nobody has noticed the nature of the curve. (Despite the fact that they’re all very anal about precisely which fit to use in gnuplot.)
It isn’t just monotonic. It’s exponential.
(Oops, as Linsuxoid points out. But not a one of the Loons noticed…)
^^Added to the comments:
“Should also plot it logaritmically”
Why is it that those who are so obsessed about throwing graphs at people know so little about data analysis.
(“It’s a rhetorical question!” – “Nah, it’s a potato”)
Well, to be fair, if you plot it logarithmically, it no longer looks exponential, does it?
To an ignoramus, that is.
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