To make a few quotations from this text...Vic 2000 wrote:Robert.
I was moderator in the Ubuntu forum for about a year. Most of the people in there was real hardcore Linux users, impossible to discuss with and most of them really loved Richard Stallman. After a long period of hate against everything except Linux i got tired of being moderator. When i watched some of them in action on Software Freedom Day in Stockholm...i understood why.
Notice the irony when the swedish slogan for Ubuntu was, "Linux för vanliga människor", i translate it to english. "Linux for ordinary people"
Now...that's irony on a high level.
FIVE REASONS I'D RATHER RUN WINDOWS 8 THAN LINUX
If you want to run an application, you just run it. You don't have to go through days of script hacks, package fights, version hassles, distro disturbances, and all the rest. With Windows, you just get your work done.
That why i quoted my own posting, i have been right in the middle of a crowd of hysteric Linux fanboys more then one time i can tell you. They fighted about everything, all the time, from wrong choice of Linux dists to FOSS or OSS, or God knows what.Reason #1: As soon as you mention one distro, all the fanboys go insane claiming you've made the wrong choice. You did it, didn't you? Just as soon as I mentioned Mint, a whole bunch of you started to foam at the mouth. Mint's not the distro-du-jour anymore. There's Bodhi. There's Xubuntu. There's the truly unfortunately named DouDou. Of course, there's Red Hat, Ubuntu, and even PCLinuxOS for those who really can't decide. That's not the point. I don't even mind that there are more than six hundred individual and different Linux distributions out there. No, it's the fanbois. As soon as you mention one distribution, everyone just jumps all over you insisting that his or her particular pet distribution is the best.
That's really what it's all about. Windows is far more compatible, far more accepted, far more understood, and it works. By contrast, Linux is populated by a subculture of immaturity and pseudo-rebellion that's neither welcoming to newcomers or pleasant to professionals interested more in productivity than proletarian pronouncements.
Don't get me wrong here. Windows fanboys aren't exactly well-behaved. But compared to the Linux crybaby whiners, the Windows kids are little angels. After I wrote about the server crash back in 2011, there were a whole lot -- a whole, whole lot -- of comments and emails. Many weren't exactly nice, and many were wildly internally inconsistent. I wrote about it in Mea culpa: coming clean about my n00b Linux mistakes, but the best summary of the nutball Linux community reaction was a little video I put together that helps showcase the true Linux-lover lunacy.
http://www.zdnet.com/five-reasons-id-ra ... 000025597/Many of us use Linux every day. Thankfully, most of the people using Linux don't know they're using Linux. My octogenarian parents, for example, have been using their TiVo DVRs for years, but have no idea that there's a variant of Linux running deep inside. The guy who installed my kitchen cabinets, who loves his Android phone but insists Facebook is hard to use has no idea he's using a variant of Linux.