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2009-11-03 , 06:51
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Originally Posted by geneven View Post
Oh, and I just read the Ubuntu review. I think it was really pathetic. Are you SURE that someone running Windows FOR THE FIRST TIME who was used to Ubuntu wouldn't say the same stuff? I have seen MANY Linux users making the same idiotic types of comments about Windows. They are stupid when Windows users make them and they are stupid when Linux users make them.
O RLY? (I'll hit these in a minute.)

(I often forget what environment I'm in, personally; I see right now that I thought I was in Linux but I'm in Windows 7! Once you get into a browser it's hard to tell, especially when you're sleepy and it is 3:40 a.m.
Neither; You're in Firefox, second only to the various emacsen in its delusions of being a cross-platform OS!

Now, for the "stupid" comments Linux users make...
  • Linux took 40 seconds to boot. Yes, that’s faster than the 55 seconds Windows 7 took to boot (and on a faster laptop, too), but, still, 40 seconds is pathetic.
LOL. Anyone who complains that the other OS sucks because "it's faster than mine but not much" is definitely lame. Agree.
  • The background was “offensively brown” – something people have been telling Canonical for years.
OK, I can believe Linux users whining about Windows's default backgrounds and color schemes. Definitely lame, agreed again.
  • The writer “struggled to see other machines and devices on my network.”
Yes. Windows doesn't come with basic support for many widespread network protocols. Is observing this "stupid"? Well, I guess complaining instead of setting to work installing cygwin is slightly "stupid", but still...
  • Audacity was “more complex to get hold of”
I'm not sure if he meant "get hold of" as in "wrap head around" or "install"... The former is stupid; the latter, assuming Audacity is packaged by and available from the OS vendor, is a legitimate complaint.
  • He gave up trying to use Spotify, because it required Wine.
The Linux counterpart would be giving up trying to use e.g. MPlayer because it required Cygwin. I've never said any such thing, nor heard anyone else! In fact, I say nearly the exact opposite: "I feel totally helpless in Windows until I install Cygwin." Most Linux users I know, however, while fairly ambivalent about Cygwin, would certainly install it if they needed an app requiring it.
  • It wasn’t immediately apparent that clicking on the Ubuntu logo took him back to the desktop.
Probably because I've never used Ubuntu Netbook Remix, I have no clue what he's talking about, but given that most distroes ship out of the box with a WM behaving very much like Windows, I can't imagine a Linux user being similarly clueless about some UI detail for basic window-management -- despite all wm UIs being completely non-obvious except by familiarity.
  • A Canonical advisor had to come over and install a few extra things for him, including Flash, but still he “struggled to work out how I would organise photos, music and video.”
Really? Linux users, who presumably organize their photos, music, and videos by making folders and dropping them into them, would struggle to work this out in Windows? Either you ignore the existing "My $JUNK" folders and make your own, or you see them and use them. Either way, no struggle required.
It's like a man who's always walked with crutches will struggle to work out how to walk without one, but a man who's accustomed to walking without them will not struggle when handed one, whether he uses it, carries it, or throws it aside.
  • Ubuntu “would not make my computing life any simpler and more pleasurable than it is now.”
Well, I would say that about Windows. In fact, I'm strongly considering ditching Windows altogether, now that I'm out of school and no longer need MathCAD. But why is that stupid?
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