Try to breathe like a dragoon while thinking your nose is on fire.
Try to kick safety glass when someone bets you to
Be caught on camera
Cry like a girl for losing out on GSoC and be caught on camera
Try to walk
Throw up
Sleep in your own puke
Feel sad about the random french chick you asked out
Try to grab pixelated boobs off the computer screen
Type
Talk
Take a route through bushes that may harbour snakes
Call your home
Undress
One or more of the above actions might lead to a social bann on your consumption of alcohol :(
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Linux Sucks?
Linux Sucks?
I am a Open Source fanboy. Theres nothing more evil to me than charging for some software you do not even know the workings of. However, after a long array of installing an uninstalling OS/es on multiple hardware, i hate to say that Linux is still a pre beta software. More so, it kinda sucks at everything the other OS/es are good at. However I will much refrain discussing apple here as beyond all hopes, I loathe it. It would be hence a *nix vs win war in the rest of the article.
Lets take bad ole windows for example. Like god and proprietary closed source code, it does work in mysterious ways. However there are things it does nicely where Linux fails.
A. Gaming: From time to time, after a hard days work, I think i deserve a lap at NFS or some frag service. Or sometimes I like to spend time on some MMO I know or maybe a round of DOTA. In all these times, I hatefully need to turn to windows. Apart from the fact that most games have indeed been coded for the winbox, theres another major problem with the hardware subsystem itself. Natively compiled quake for Linux drags on the latest NVidia hardware. In all such cases, lin blames the driver. But seriously, to me as a consumer if I cant get out the best from the best hardware in market while using Linux, it only proves that Linux is meant for lower end systems. Also its not like i have an alternative as theres not one Linux supported card in the market that would beat a 8800GT.
B. Browsing: In the current state of internet, video browsing is quite a feature. Needless to say, all of it is based on flash and/or silver light. Neither of them work in the best ways on a lin system. Again its not lin to blame, but with the cut-throat competition in the market, Linux needs to specify its own flash decoder which should work just as seamlessly and effortlessly as on windows. Alternately, linux can implement its standards for video sharing and multimedia content on the web and widely promote it, say on various distro sites and so on. Apart from this, another impact that the nicely modular architecture in Linux has on browsing is the sluggishness. The problem is, once my Firefox slows down due to unfairly long sessions or otherwise, so does the rest of my desktop.
C. Eye Candy: The most major flaw of linux is public distribution of software which is not ready, specifically in the eye-candy areas. Compiz and avant are two such applications that have given a huge array of problems over multiple systems. One irritating bug on say compiz is the alt+tab switcher which takes quite sometime to load on many systems. Another one which the awn suffers with is the sluggish resizing and window events related to a gnome-terminal launched from the avant dock pad. On the other hand, winxp and vista and leopard offer much less eye candy, which however is less leaky from my own experience.
However, by no means does it mean that windows or leopard for example are any better. Truth be told Linux is the least of all the evils. It does some awesome things win can never support, the coolest being programming. I honestly believe theres no better platform to write and compile code on than a *nix system. Document editing and any office work, playing music and video [ amarok and mplayer being favorites respectively] and chat[pidgin] are somethings that linux excels at, the real reasons behind a pc. More so, the rate of improvement in linux is much higher than seen on any other OS. A OS 6 years in dev sounds like a joke compared to the 6 month cycle that most *nix distros have. The support that the Linux community and web resources offer are unmatched. More so, given fully supported hardware, I highly doubt anything could come near the benchmarks a *nix system would pull off. That in itself would probably be the solution to everything I mentioned above. However the only way this will ever happen is if Linux gets as popular as windoze. Hence in conclusion, Linux sucks, so please use it :D.
I am a Open Source fanboy. Theres nothing more evil to me than charging for some software you do not even know the workings of. However, after a long array of installing an uninstalling OS/es on multiple hardware, i hate to say that Linux is still a pre beta software. More so, it kinda sucks at everything the other OS/es are good at. However I will much refrain discussing apple here as beyond all hopes, I loathe it. It would be hence a *nix vs win war in the rest of the article.
Lets take bad ole windows for example. Like god and proprietary closed source code, it does work in mysterious ways. However there are things it does nicely where Linux fails.
A. Gaming: From time to time, after a hard days work, I think i deserve a lap at NFS or some frag service. Or sometimes I like to spend time on some MMO I know or maybe a round of DOTA. In all these times, I hatefully need to turn to windows. Apart from the fact that most games have indeed been coded for the winbox, theres another major problem with the hardware subsystem itself. Natively compiled quake for Linux drags on the latest NVidia hardware. In all such cases, lin blames the driver. But seriously, to me as a consumer if I cant get out the best from the best hardware in market while using Linux, it only proves that Linux is meant for lower end systems. Also its not like i have an alternative as theres not one Linux supported card in the market that would beat a 8800GT.
B. Browsing: In the current state of internet, video browsing is quite a feature. Needless to say, all of it is based on flash and/or silver light. Neither of them work in the best ways on a lin system. Again its not lin to blame, but with the cut-throat competition in the market, Linux needs to specify its own flash decoder which should work just as seamlessly and effortlessly as on windows. Alternately, linux can implement its standards for video sharing and multimedia content on the web and widely promote it, say on various distro sites and so on. Apart from this, another impact that the nicely modular architecture in Linux has on browsing is the sluggishness. The problem is, once my Firefox slows down due to unfairly long sessions or otherwise, so does the rest of my desktop.
C. Eye Candy: The most major flaw of linux is public distribution of software which is not ready, specifically in the eye-candy areas. Compiz and avant are two such applications that have given a huge array of problems over multiple systems. One irritating bug on say compiz is the alt+tab switcher which takes quite sometime to load on many systems. Another one which the awn suffers with is the sluggish resizing and window events related to a gnome-terminal launched from the avant dock pad. On the other hand, winxp and vista and leopard offer much less eye candy, which however is less leaky from my own experience.
However, by no means does it mean that windows or leopard for example are any better. Truth be told Linux is the least of all the evils. It does some awesome things win can never support, the coolest being programming. I honestly believe theres no better platform to write and compile code on than a *nix system. Document editing and any office work, playing music and video [ amarok and mplayer being favorites respectively] and chat[pidgin] are somethings that linux excels at, the real reasons behind a pc. More so, the rate of improvement in linux is much higher than seen on any other OS. A OS 6 years in dev sounds like a joke compared to the 6 month cycle that most *nix distros have. The support that the Linux community and web resources offer are unmatched. More so, given fully supported hardware, I highly doubt anything could come near the benchmarks a *nix system would pull off. That in itself would probably be the solution to everything I mentioned above. However the only way this will ever happen is if Linux gets as popular as windoze. Hence in conclusion, Linux sucks, so please use it :D.
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