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I'm shocked by the author's ignorance. He's kind of an idiot. Simply because he's been living under a rock and lacks common knowledge about how 90% of the wor

by sauravc 14y ago

I'm shocked by the author's ignorance. He's kind of an idiot. Simply because he's been living under a rock and lacks common knowledge about how 90% of the world's personal computers run. Pick any OS and if you've never used it before you'll run into quite a bit of cognitive dissonance when trying it out for the first time. Nothing new here. Just a dummy who's trying to acted shocked by an OS everyone and their grandma has used for years.

AimHere 14y ago
>Pick any OS and if you've never used it before you'll run into quite a bit of cognitive dissonance when trying it out for the first time. That's the author's point. He's parodying the myriad 'I tried Linux, and it sucks' blogs that have been around since forever ago. Since he knew that large sections of the internet have trouble with subtlety and sarcasm, and wouldn't get that without him saying so explicitly in the text, he said so explicitly in the text. Which would have helped if there weren't also large sections of the internet that are prone to commenting before reading the text.
- WayneDB 14y ago
  Yeah, but Linux sucks on the desktop for reasons that are completely different than the types of reasons that are being enumerated here for Windows. For instance: Fragmentation. Relatively low quality desktop software. Unavailability of certain types of software. Lack of certain features altogether like file "created date" for files, on most distributions.
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webreac 14y ago
I think you have completely missed the point of the article. It is a parody of the behaviour of microsoft users. As a linux user (I have left microsoft because of Vista), I can ensure you that windows Vista, 7 and 8 are very weird.
fredsted 14y ago
Try reading the contents of the yellow box below the 2nd paragraph.
numeromancer 14y ago
You need to reboot your Point Detector. I recommend one of the many free ones that run on Linux.

by sauravc 14y ago

AimHere 14y ago

>Pick any OS and if you've never used it before you'll run into quite a bit of cognitive dissonance when trying it out for the first time. That's the author's point. He's parodying the myriad 'I tried Linux, and it sucks' blogs that have been around since forever ago. Since he knew that large sections of the internet have trouble with subtlety and sarcasm, and wouldn't get that without him saying so explicitly in the text, he said so explicitly in the text. Which would have helped if there weren't also large sections of the internet that are prone to commenting before reading the text.

WayneDB 14y ago
Yeah, but Linux sucks on the desktop for reasons that are completely different than the types of reasons that are being enumerated here for Windows. For instance: Fragmentation. Relatively low quality desktop software. Unavailability of certain types of software. Lack of certain features altogether like file "created date" for files, on most distributions.
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webreac 14y ago

I think you have completely missed the point of the article. It is a parody of the behaviour of microsoft users. As a linux user (I have left microsoft because of Vista), I can ensure you that windows Vista, 7 and 8 are very weird.

fredsted 14y ago

Try reading the contents of the yellow box below the 2nd paragraph.

numeromancer 14y ago

You need to reboot your Point Detector. I recommend one of the many free ones that run on Linux.