Thread: Aergh... is Linux just for nerds?
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2008-06-23 , 23:31
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Originally Posted by matthewcb4 View Post
Ok your all right. Linux isent just for nerds. Everyone should know all about command lines and it should be tought in school. That is just one of the things that people are going to use on a daily basis, including spanish and geometry.
Nah, YOU'RE right - Linux IS just for nerds. Windows is for "jocks", and Mac is for the "cool clique". Thanks for clearing that up.

...thay are not going to spend the time to learn all about linux when there is windows that you can just pay $50 bucks a year and have someone else protect that information for you. ..
That sounds like an excellent strategy - pay someone else to protect you, in order to maintain a comfortable level of ignorance.

Or, lets go one step further and say a Mac... now very user friendly and you dont have to worry about viruses and any of that.
Have you priced a Mac lately? 2-3x the cost of a Windows machine. And it still has vulnerabilities.

How will linux be able to compete with any of that when thay stand idol with command lines?
Jeebus, man, what is it with you and your abnormal fear of command lines? It's just words, man, they don't bite. The world's not all buttons and pictures. And most of all - YOU DON'T HAVE TO USE THE COMMAND LINE IF YOU DON'T WANT TO.

Argue with me as much as you want but im just coming from the point of a regular computer user who would regulary look at someone using lenux and say that its just to much dedication for something that i can do with minimal background on another OS.
I think it's rather obvious where you're "coming from". "Too much dedication"... "just pay someone else to protect you"... whine whine whine whine.

Jeeze, what is this, your online version of the jocks picking on the nerds? Just go buy a freaking Windows machine already, and a Win Mobile portable to go with it. Life will be perfect for you then. Just point and click. Point and click. Plug and play. Point and click.