Subj : Re: Win4lin To : Deuce From : Time Warrior Date : Wed Oct 05 2005 12:56 pm From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet To: Deuce Re: Re: Win4lin By: Deuce to Ralph Smole on Tue Oct 04 2005 09:55 pm > To: Ralph Smole > Re: Re: Win4lin By: Ralph Smole to All on Tue Oct 04 2005 11:22 am > > Mark my words: We will NOT see Linux become the preferred OS over Windows > > our lifetime. I'll take bets on it! Not until there is a unified > > Linux distro, and one that offers a TRULY user-friendly > > interface. The general public doesn't want to mess with > > dependencies,etc.. Not to mention crap like Lindows. > You mean I assume that it won't become the preferred OS for the workstation. > it's already the preferred OS for web servers (if you call it an OS that is) IMHO, anyone who calls Linspire "crap" is speaking in ignorance (and closed minded opinion) that something "easier to use" has to be shitty. Linspire is SIMPLY Debian and Modded KDE. CNR is a GUI over "aptget". Theres really nothing too proprietary about it. It will install 99.99999999999% of Linux command line and X apps. Linspire is NOTHING but a cosmetic easy version of Debian and KDE. To me, "crap" is something thats buggy, bloated and unstable. Linspire has been NEITHER of those things. As far as your "Server Reference" over Ralph's ralphed opinion, I'd reccomend Linspire to Windows Synchronet Sysops who have an interest in learning Linux. It's an easy tool to learn with. The command line takes some getting used to be is only slightly harder than DOS. Anyone familar with DOS should have no problems adapting to a linux console given enough time to play with it. So far in the last few weeks i've learned alot and the learning proccess thus far as been faster than i thought it would be and otherwise successful. Let me put it this way. I can't program, I can't draw ansi, I can't do alot of things -- but I'm learning Linux. So anyone who is smarter than me, thinks they are smarter than me (or at the very least underestimates me and thinks i'm a dumbass lol), or is equally as illiterate as I am to more complicated comuputer platforms should look at it this way -- if Linspire can help ME learn Linux then I don't think it would be beyond the vast majority of Windows users within this forum or within the BBS Scene as a whole for that mater. Linux is not as hard as it gets stereotyped to be. Sure, it's challenging and takes time. But thats far different than "very hard" or "impossible for most people to learn". Lazy fucks throwing pitty parties need not take my advice. However, anyone who wants to learn new things who is as sick of Windows as I am should give Linux a shot if they have a PC to spare for the attempt. My previous hinderance was the machine required. Now I luckaly i have more than 1 machine at my disposal. Joseph of http://josephsjewelersonline.com has a "public system" in his store for people to browse Moissanite and other jewelry but it's a 200mhz and Windows XP was being a little whore with it. He gave me perimission to toss Linux on it and all of that computers issues have magically dissapeared since. lol Then I was able to get my Dad to agree to a dual boot on his system after hearing about what happened it Joseph's and a short time later he demanded I KILL Winblowz in favor of Linspire. My personal Machine that i'm rebuilding here that was running XP will now be running Linux when I'm done. All I need to get my Mom moved over is a few select Linux versions of some games she wants so she doesn't piss and moan about not having her games! :-) Not to mention -- if MY PARENTS can use Linux then ANYONE can because a desk lamp knows more about computers than THEY DO! lol! For people who think easy = lame let me also using my parents as an example put into perspective that my parents always used to hound me for tech support with Windows problems. After installing Linspire, I haven't heard a peep out of my Dad since. lol -- .---------------------------------------------------------------. | [TiME WaRRiOR] aka [Dave Kelso] AIM: Twar782 | +o Malkavia BBS | | www : synchsupport.net - malkaviabbs.com - xpresit.net | | www$: josephsjewelersonline.com - preferedinsurance.com | | @: time.warrior@malkaviabbs. com | \______________________________________________________________/ --- Synchronet 3.12a-Win32 NewsLink 1.76 * Malkavia - Chicago, IL - telnet://malkaviabbs.com --- Synchronet 3.13b-Win32 NewsLink 1.83 .