Comments on: Linux thriving in an anti-Windows Vista market

By: Get More

Get More — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 05:21:08 +0000

I have Windows 2000 AS on one of the other drives on my computer. It’s funny before I became a Linux user, I would reformat it all the time to keep it running right, until it got to the point I couldn’t even go online to get the updates before viruses found their way on there. So after I went to school and learned about Linux (2 terms Linux admin) I decided to do the dual boot thing, especially since I could do my labs at home. I slowly adopted it until finally 3 years ago I was down to one annual boot to windows because tax software didn’t work on Linux, and I would fight the good fight trying to kill all the viruses and install TurboTax and hope and pray I wasn’t sending my tax information to some script kiddie.

Now tax software is web based and supports FireFox (even though there is a disclaimer lol). Now I use Linux 100% of the time. If I want to play video games, that’s why my playstation is for. If I want a computer that runs all day and all night, doing whatever I ask it to do without complaining, playing my .mp3’s without bitching about it or spying on me, and developing Java software, and surfing the net, and editing office documents, that’s what OpenSuse is for. I haven’t restarted my computer in about a year, let alone needed to boot it to Windows, and probably the next time I reboot it will just be because I’m installing the newest version of OpenSuse I downloaded the other day…FOR FREE…

It’s funny I went to a Microsoft launch event and included was a FREE FULL version of Vista Ultimate. I thought about installing it, but couldn’t think of a compelling reason to bother. If ever I do, it will be to use the free full version of Visual Studio I got from the event, but since I develop exclusively in Java nowadays (the only thing you need for enterprise web application development…not to mention all my tools are $0…) I don’t really see that happening either.

At work I’m forced to use Windows, but luckily all the software I know and love (NetBeans, FireFox, OpenOffice, various apache servers, etc.) all run in Windows as well, so I just pretend I’m on Linux until I have to reboot it for some security update or other bullshit, then I throw up my hands and go have a smoke break on company time.

By: Ken

Ken — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 05:20:03 +0000

Yoga

Have the doctor change the meds before it’s too late.

Coherence is good. Your comment not so much.

By: Yoga

Yoga — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 18:07:20 +0000

I was getting grief with win 3.1, win 95 win ME, then win 98 then windows XP. Calls to microsoft and thousands of dollars spent on their products made me only feel like I was stealing from them when I bought legitimate copies. What made it worse was the constant data loss of being hacked, having to spend hours rebuilding my computer and buying numerous protection softwares that only delayed the inevitable hack and then again my system would get wiped out.

I tried to erase the hard drives using all available high end security data erase and even tried putting in Ubuntu, which also would still get hacked.

As a joke one day I bought a $600 mac mini and plugged it in and my problems disappeared. I have never looked back and have saved myself a fortune and have had a computer that runs wonderfully. Its been a simple joy.

OS X

Get it and never look back. Its so far ahead and is a joy to use.

By: CMR

CMR — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 16:20:54 +0000

don’t be egoistic, think about MS share holders :o(

By: Ralph

Ralph — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 07:17:03 +0000

With Linux Mint, I can surf the net, watch videos online, listen to my MP3’s, listen to streaming radio. Watch You tube, do email, instant messaging, connect my printer up, use it wirelessly, connect my camera up, burn CDs and DVDs, without paying one thin dime to MS or to anyone….so please tell me why I still need Windows and why Windows is relevant?