No more Linux

[d0b33]

I've been using a dualboot setup(Win and Linux) on my main PC but now that I've got a second display connected to my Macbook I have made my Linux redundant, my macbook with OSX will take over since it too is a stable redundant system. OSX is best suited for the Mac so I won't install linux on it(tried it)

So I won't be seeing much of Linux for the forceable future.

I'll be in the Mac section manning my foxhole for the winblows fanbois who intrude.

 

[kingrob]

Would be sad that we dont get your input anymore, but you're not completely leaving the ''family''.....OSX still has a terminal and is a UNIX based OS.

OSX is very cool, I'm especially impressed with Time Machine. Dont think I have seen such a cool backup/restore app before. Might join the camp in the near future, a friend of mine is running OSX on his pc (hackintosh) and he tempts me every day.

Just wish Apple didn't overprice their hardware so much! Might also go the hackintosh route.

 

[d0b33]

Yep, switching to OSX from Linux is not a big step, there are some quirks and restrictions but these are minor, all I need is the speed and stability which linux offered.

I'm going from a quadcore with nvidia GPU to a macbook Core2 2ghz with intel graphics and I don't feel like I've downgraded either.

 

[kingrob]

I'm sure you'll be very happy with your macbook!

That spec is more than enough to run OSX + Intel graphics has improved a lot.

Enjoy!

 

[Bismuth]

I would be if you were dumping Linux for Windows, but as you are changing to OSX, I don't mind as much!

B

 

[SlinkyMike]

Yea... goodbye 200mb+ updates daily; goodbye unsupported everything; goodbye endless hunt for drivers; goodbye exhaustive list of desktop mnagers nd all of their disparate and overlapping themes etc; goodbye trawling forums to get a soundcard to work (even Windows manages that right out of the box.)

Linux on the desktop is a fun hobby but once the spinning cubeneymoon wears off the warts start to show.

 

[hawker]

Yea... goodbye 200mb+ updates daily; goodbye unsupported everything; goodbye endless hunt for drivers; goodbye exhaustive list of desktop mnagers nd all of their disparate and overlapping themes etc; goodbye trawling forums to get a soundcard to work (even Windows manages that right out of the box.)

Linux on the desktop is a fun hobby but once the spinning cubeneymoon wears off the warts start to show.

:O seems like you've had some major issues. What version of Linux were you using?

 

[Other Pineapple Smurf]

I've been using a dualboot setup(Win and Linux) on my main PC but now that I've got a second display connected to my Macbook I have made my Linux redundant, my macbook with OSX will take over since it too is a stable redundant system. OSX is best suited for the Mac so I won't install linux on it(tried it)

So I won't be seeing much of Linux for the forceable future.

I'll be in the Mac section manning my foxhole for the winblows fanbois who intrude.

Well your just moving onto BSD so why the sad face.

But I agree on running OSX on your Mac - why else own a Mac!

 

[d0b33]

Yea... goodbye 200mb+ updates daily; goodbye unsupported everything; goodbye endless hunt for drivers; goodbye exhaustive list of desktop mnagers nd all of their disparate and overlapping themes etc; goodbye trawling forums to get a soundcard to work (even Windows manages that right out of the box.)

Linux on the desktop is a fun hobby but once the spinning cubeneymoon wears off the warts start to show.

I don't know.. my Linux experience was rather pleasent, a few hiccups here and there but it was easily remedied.

Well your just moving onto BSD so why the sad face.

Yeah... I was not sad, I was actually loving my OSX setup....

" no more linux" would have given the wrong impression

 

[Bismuth]

:O seems like you've had some major issues. What version of Linux were you using?

I dare say you are probably feeding trolls here!

There are also many posts like this on the Ubuntu Forums as well, sometimes the bait gets taken, sometimes not.

B

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Yea... goodbye 200mb+ updates daily; goodbye unsupported everything; goodbye endless hunt for drivers; goodbye exhaustive list of desktop mnagers nd all of their disparate and overlapping themes etc; goodbye trawling forums to get a soundcard to work (even Windows manages that right out of the box.)

Interestingly, my soundcard works, but it still continues making merry sounds even though I got it on mute

Ah well... that's not a critical issue for now.

 

[hawker]

I dare say you are probably feeding trolls here!

There are also many posts like this on the Ubuntu Forums as well, sometimes the bait gets taken, sometimes not.

B

Yea, you are probably right. *shrug* :erm:

 

[SlinkyMike]

:O seems like you've had some major issues. What version of Linux were you using?

Ubuntu. Used Gutsy Gibbon though to Hardy Heron.
I had fun... for sure. However the assertion that these alpha versions (pre alpha on a bad day) are anywhere near fit for use by anything over 1% of the PC using population as a daily desktop is beyond preposterous.

I am fairly adept - most would consider me a techie but when I need a computer to do something other than simply to work on (as in work on to find a fix because something does not function correctly) I would never reach for my trusty copy of Ubuntu.

I dare say you are probably feeding trolls here!

There are also many posts like this on the Ubuntu Forums as well, sometimes the bait gets taken, sometimes not.

B

You'd do well to have a gander at my posts on this forum. I have been a member for years and I do not troll (unless you put 'funky' headlights on a GTI or POLO but then you are asking for it.)

Maybe those posts are on the Ubuntu forums because a bunch of stuff is really a ball ache to get working on Linux?

Interestingly, my soundcard works, but it still continues making merry sounds even though I got it on mute

Ah well... that's not a critical issue for now.

Technically, I'd classify that as 'does not effin work!"

Yea, you are probably right. *shrug* :erm:

Pls see above.

 

[d0b33]

I had fun... for sure. However the assertion that these alpha versions (pre alpha on a bad day) are anywhere near fit for use by anything over 1% of the PC using population as a daily desktop is beyond preposterous.

Google has something in store that will work for the average user.

 

[SlinkyMike]

Google has something in store that will work for the average user.

Yea... could be very interesting.

 

[MyWorld]

Yea... goodbye 200mb+ updates daily; goodbye unsupported everything; goodbye endless hunt for drivers; goodbye exhaustive list of desktop mnagers nd all of their disparate and overlapping themes etc; goodbye trawling forums to get a soundcard to work (even Windows manages that right out of the box.)

Linux on the desktop is a fun hobby but once the spinning cubeneymoon wears off the warts start to show.

I had a good long and hard ponder whether I should retort or just leave it be. Linux is not perfect, neither is any other OS and to make such a claim is asking for trouble. You rant on a version of Ubuntu that is how old?

Let me just counter retort with something similar to show you how stupid this sounds:
Windows Fat32 cannot format my 1TB hdd, Windows ME gave me endless headaches and is as stable as a fart in a paper bag, Windows 95 was a pain to get networking going as well as Windows 98, over 1Gb of updates on a standard XP install (Standard-> Sp1-> SP2 -> SP3)!!! Every time I installed an updated Windows (98-> ME-> XP-> Vista) I basically had to go out and buy a whole new computer to handle the software, etc.

200mb plus updates daily, if you want to convert your displeasure at something at least tell the truth, don't lie, 200mbx30x2years (the age of Gutsy) = ?

If you told the truth it would have been +/- 600mb updates immediately within the first few days of installation and thereafter RARELY EVER and update over 50mb, most updates well under 10mb even.

Notice not one Windows 7 comment? Notice not one Karmic/2009 distro comment in your reply? Holding something against a two year old OS is stupid without taking a look at what they changed and how.

You see, there I went and got on my soap box again, but hey, you do not like Linux, then leave it be, you love Windows, then take your credit card (because you are legit in using ALL your software right) and support them. Whatever makes you happy.

 

[SlinkyMike]

...but hey, you do not like Linux...

Buddy: you do not like reading, I like Linux just fine... as a hobby/for fun as a stable; useable OS for the masses forget it. It is not that, frankly I don't see how it can ever be.

Your assertions about the amount of updates that my system required in my experience are (as one might quite rightly assume) quite incorrect.

I was, in fact downloading a few hundred megabytes a day - it was annoying.

On that subject has anyone here ever experienced a successful upgrade from one distro to another from inside the Synaptic package manager as advertised? I have tried it twice (A new distribution is available, click here to upgrade...)
Every. Single. Time. I ended up with a mish-mash of distros and had to tear down the whole system and install from scratch.

Further your comparisons between Gutsy Gibbon and Windows XP/ME fall very short of an 'apples to apples' comparison... I mean really pal: ME is at least eight years older than Gutsy???

Incidentally I don't much like Windows... I am a very happy Mac user.

You may want to read through your notes quickly before you hop up on the old soapbox next time tough guy.

 

[kingrob]

LOL.....SlinkyMike just gave me a good laugh!!

I'm running Bugzilla on an Ubuntu 9.10 workstation + a Zimbra server on another one. And it has been ROCK SOLID since day 1. Oh, and another Ubuntu 9.10 workstation running a MySQL database....also nothing to report + I am running it as my desktop OS, stable since day 1.

SO....SlinkyMike.....you are absolutely talking through your ass.

 

[MyWorld]

Touchy, and I'm not your pal.

So I'm correct in stating that 200Mbx30x2years then? /sarcasm

What did you expect from an OS, to not update? Do Mac not update their OS? Or applications?
From you original post, like many observed, you came across as a troll, weak guy (I can name call as well, see).

My comparison with Windows vs Linux Ubuntu stands and you fail to grasp the basic message I was trying to portray with that comparison, that is why I said:

to show you how stupid this sounds

And yes, there are a few of us who did the release upgrade successfully, it was discussed here a month or so ago why it may fail, but like you said, Linux will never ever be for masses, and that is fine, if you do not want to search, read and learn then Linux is not for you, like you yourself said in your original post.

milomak summed it upvery nicely in another thread:

1. most people who use it made a choice to use it
2. most people who continued to use it, made an effort to use it. and they generally document their efforts to solve problems.

Oh and I have a right to stand on my little soap box, this is the Linux section of the forums and I AM a Linux fanboy, so there.

 

[Ockie]

urm...I think Ubuntu is pretty much ready for the masses. I have been using linux for almost two years now...Ubuntu and Mint briefly. For a user like me, that just wants to do some browzing and watch some movies and MP3's etc...Ubuntu is 100%. I ran the setup disc and everything worked 100%. Just had to download the driver for my Nvidia graphics and download the libs for avi and dvd playback. Linux Mint even comes preinstalled with those.

Whether the masses is ready for Ubuntu/Mint is another question