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Mildly interesting rant about Linux and Complexity
- niels_olson 18y ago> Even new version of these operating systems still do not offer such a fundamental feature as working hibernate or other form of session saving. Funny, on September 27th I closed the lid on my oversize-no-way-it's-going-to-travel-with-me Dell 9300, which now serves as my media center, running Ubuntu, and I left for a month. I came back, opened it up this morning, and it woke right up and asked for my password.
- olefoo 18y agoThis guy should look into OpenBSD, I get the sense he would either appreciate it's aesthetic or get into an argument with Theo.
- wmf 18y agoBetween this, Fedora's "who moved my X server?", and yet-another-Phonon-flamewar, this wasn't a good week for the Linux Hater to retire.
- artificer 18y agoJust when we were contemplating the loss of our beloved linux hater...comes this one. Let's give the guy a warm welcome, shall we? ;-)
- known 18y ago(1) Linux != Gnome or KDE (2) Options = Freedom And X is loosely coupled (hence no single point of failure). MS Windows is tightly coupled architecture (hence single point of failure) for your computer.
- wmf 18y agoLinux != Gnome or KDE That's precisely his complaint. New features are being created that aren't accessible from the command line (e.g. NetworkManager). You have to use GNOME/KDE.