lin(s)ux for a week

This is Mr. AshPringle’s experience with lin(s)ux A must-read! The guy has a great sense of humor If you’re interested in the full story click on the link.

“Upon installing it we were greeted with an unceremonious command console that might as well have been written in the ancient tongue of the long-dead tribe of Gnitth Shhta Star-God worshippers.” Yeah linux is easy and user friendly

“now that those newer and simpler operating systems are available, I find myself wondering: why use Linux at all?” LMAO, you’ll be wondering even more when windows 7 comes out.

“I’ve decided to give in to peer pressure, light me up some Linux… Step one is to research what Linux has to offer nowadays. I know absolutely nothing about it, other than the fact that it is associated with penguins and guys with crazy beards, and that I remember it having all the subtlety and ease of use of a sledgehammer to the patience-center of your brain.” Yeah bored people who mainly use a computer for IM, browsing and whobbly windows, and umm that’s about it. (I respect linux capabilities in the netorking field.)

“in reality there is roughly 158,000 million types of Linux, each of them named after a different type of hat.” yeah it figures, why not… BABEL!Lookie here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions Make up your FREAKIN’ mind!!!!

“So I opt for the full install option. Since I want to keep Windows intact, because it has all kinds of Windowsy things I need… As I return I realize I’m actually pretty excited to get this thing installed and try it out. Gleefully I hop into my room to find… it’s locked up. So much for the simple install.” – “Ubuntu will always be free of charge, including enterprise releases and security updates.” Thank GOD I don’t see any people using it with all the holes it got if it weren’t free. Daaaaaaa’

“The install process takes about half an hour. Then my computer starts to boot and… it locks up. Disappointed that I’ve run into another road-bloc… It tells me that GRUB is loading, and to please wait, and also that Error 21, which is presumably the Linux-talk equivalent of two middle fingers and a crotch-thrust in my direction. Now I’m super-screwed.” – “Ubuntu comes with full commercial support from Canonical and hundreds of companies around the world.” Why should they throw out a stable, normal, working, flawless OS when they can MAKE you go to their forums and watch payed ads by which they get rich off, and they say the guys at Microsoft are hypocrite money lovers.

“To put it softly, installing Ubuntu was hell. The simplicity I was looking for was not there” LMAO, for real it’s worth reading the full story .

“Next I just have to go into my BIOS, make sure it’s set to boot from a USB drive, and reboot so that it can… Error 23. Ah, Error 23: the old middle finger and crotch thrust again. My next step is to contemplate suicide for a moment… And… you know what? This is, like, getting super-boring again.” “Our philosophy is reflected in the software we produce“ That’s pretty fuckin’ right!! )) ERROR

“I log on to an instant messaging program to exchange very important information over the Internet with people I see face-to-face pretty much every day. I’m glad to see that Ubuntu has provided me with the ability to reduce my productivity by 1000 percent.” Yepp it’s for REAL MAN )))))) who work hard on writing on their desktops with FIRE!! BUYAKA!

“That is, as soon as I play a few games. First on the docket is something called Klotski, which I’m assuming is an Eastern-European word that means “free game that comes bundled with Linux.”After a bit of playing I realize that all the unfamiliar games that come bundled with Ubuntu were actually designed by an alien race possessing of a completely foreign form of logic and reasoning.” Wow, shure beats solitare… ))

“my wireless adapter does not even kind of work a little bit. It won’t even show up when I supplement my right click of the network icon in the taskbar with a commanding and powerful “pleeeeeeeease?”… After I’ve installed ndisgtk, Ubuntu informs me that I “can close the window now,” as if to imply that it wouldn’t have been an option unless Ubuntu had been gracious enough to let it happen. I see my brutal taming of you is going well, Linux… I locate the .inf file for my wireless card in the Windows Wireless Driver app that I installed, load it up, and watch intently as it does exactly nothing… With the bittersweet, and surprisingly salty, taste of defeat in my mouth I head to the forums, where I find that apparently many people with the same wireless adapter as me have had the same problem. Unfortunately there seems to be at least four or six or three different potential solutions or something-elses to the problem, the success of each of which is determined by the drawing of tarot cards and your performance of a very particular ritual sacrifice.” “When you install Ubuntu almost all of the software installed already meets these ideals” Yepp almost! It’s a pretty darn BIG almost folks EROOR.

“I skip the documentation and go straight to the forums, which experience has shown is the hangout of the most hardcore advisers and their customized leather jackets. Unfortunately, the process of getting my video drivers working seems similar to the process for fixing my wireless drivers, only with way more ritual sacrifice” “The freedom to study how the programme works and adapt it to your needs. ” Yepp and by the time you figure it out, other people using (windows or os x) get the REAL work done that you could’nt becouse you were to busy figuring out how to make your programs work in this great FREE linux distro of yours that you care for so much.

“Ubuntu is still a developing OS, and there’s loads of hardware out there for the developers to account for and get working.” Why can’t you hardcore linux fans accept these simple facts?

“get Wine set up. I chose Wine … because I am an inveterate alcoholic (I don’t have a problem. I jush… I jush like virtualizing! I can schtop when… whenever I wanna… Wheresh the toilet?)” No comment… Wine… pppfffff hahahahaha LOLCOPTER

“I update Wine. It goes smoothly, and I get to loading up my first Windows program. I decide on using Winamp, which is the only mp3 player that is so very Windows that it has an abridged version of “Windows” in its name… I decide to test my luck and load up Spelunky, my latest video games addiction. I download the program and run the .exe, and it teases me by giving me a glimpse of the intro screen. I feel a rush of adrenaline as I realize I’m getting away with my unethical plan again, but then disaster strikes. The game rats me out, and my whole screen turns black, leaving me unable to alt-tab out. And I didn’t even get a chance to try sticking my gaming controller into the USB slot!” Ubuntu philosophy!

“In the end I learned my lesson: it’s everyone’s dream to be with two operating systems at once, but it’s always too good to be true. Eventually one of them will find out about your indiscretions and threaten to cut important parts of you off with a well-timed crash, and then you’ll get a virus from a Windows application and end up with more groin pain than the old battleaxe you’ve been stuck with could ever give you.”

“In the end I don’t really mind that Windows applications don’t run perfectly with Wine; I’ve never had a problem with using multiple operating systems, since each has its own strengths, so it seems kind of silly to try to make Linux into Windows.” Yepp each has it’s own strenghts and weaknesses but linux’s strength doesn’t lie in the desktop lane.

“Well hello there, Kubuntu. You’re looking awfully nice tonight. Want to come back to my place, have a couple glasses of wine, and try some kinky new desktop effects?”

“In my opinion the jiggly window is by far the most ingenious and practical of all desktop effects. If I spent that much time with the jiggly window plugin it must be important, because I am a very important person who only spends time on important things.” Practical is the keyword here!

“…I don’t like The confusing amount of different names for things: KDE, Compiz, Compiz Fusion, Wubi, Gnome, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, tomato, tomato, tomato, tomato, potato. Open Office’s spellcheck: It doesn’t work! but apparently it’s ubiquitous.“Hey Doug, I got the spellcheck finished! Huh? Does it work? Well, no. But it’s done!” The wallpaper: I can’t seem to change the wallpaper of different desktops individually; If I change the desktop background it applies to every one. Maybe it’s just that I have almost no short-term memory, but I think I could better differentiate between different desktops that I was shifting between if I could give each one its own wallpaper. Plus then I could make one desktop say “You” and the second desktop say “Suck” so if anyone used my computer and switched between desktops they’d realize that they suck. Oh man, that would show them! The hardware issues. You know what?: Getting stabbed in the face in general is something I don’t like. Just pretend that for every object that exists there is a line that says, “Getting stabbed in the face with a X,” where X is any physical object at all… I like: The speed: Linux is fast. If it were any free-er it would probably give you money. Linux is perfect for doing simple things like web browsing, text-editing, I look forward to seeing how Linux improves its compatibility with all the hardware and software that is out there.” Yepp

I 100% agree with the like/dislikes of Mr. AshPringle, but, if you actually consider yourself to be part of people who use computers for ACTUAL WORK, and not just DICKING AROUND it’s not for you. Maybe it’s ok for grandma who can’t handle the incredibly complicated mechanics of using ESET Smart Security.

Greets!