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Mar 5, 2010 5:30 AM
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Did you know that KDE lets you rotate icons? Did you know you can type in commands in the terminal to get your HD’s serial number? Did you know Linux can boot off a Live CD?
Bear all these neat tricks in mind and never forget how superior Linux is while you’re struggling with PulseAudio, can’t get Linux to see your wireless card, having problems with .doc formatting in OpenOffice and can’t run your essential apps in Wine.
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Incidentally, the HD serial number is only available through proprietary firmware.
So, not only am I doing something thoroughly useless, but I also get smacked across the face with a wet halibut for doing something antithetical to freedom.
1. Have no idea how to live without rotating icons. It's a killer feature, which can overweight any other problem on leenooks
2. Like "gwmi win32_diskdrive|fl serialnumber" from powershell? Or like "wmic diskdrive get serialnumber" in older OS-es? Not to say that dmidecode and sed are also available on Windows.
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_live_CDs#Microsoft_Windows-based
I think it's OK for Windows users, who only use their computer to play games or make docs/presentations in MS Office, to not know anything about Windows in general. But funny thing is that those l33t Linux-users, which use Linux just because of "uber-features of bash" - they don't have any clue of what Windows can actually do.
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