Comments on Linux and Free software: Linux Sucks

Do a search on google "linux sucks" amd ...

2011-09-20T18:25:46.508-04:00

Do a search on google "linux sucks" amd you will find these pages explaining why linux really doesn't suck... Then try "windows sucks" and you will quickly learn WHY Micro$oft is CRAP.

I loved your article... I really needed a good laugh!

Anonymous sad: "Everyone just wants everythin...

2011-06-04T17:25:48.645-04:00

Anonymous sad:
"Everyone just wants everything to work smoothly all of the time. No OS can do this yet."

You are right, therefore I don't like to give away any money for bad working software, so I'm happy to have a chance to play with some costing nothing and giving me no more trouble as the payed one before.

AWESOME DUDE, AWESOME!! Everything is right! Fucki...

2011-05-10T11:19:57.911-04:00

AWESOME DUDE, AWESOME!!
Everything is right! Fuckin Linux is taking our favourite freetime activity: REPAIRING WINDOWS and it's programs!

The only 3D effect the windows evoirment offers is the window switcher since win7. So we're able to have fun with just one thing! With Compiz, we just want more and more and we're not happy with a single effect anymore. There is a windows application trying to copy the beautiful cube effect: DeskCube or DeskSwitcher or what it was called again.

great Text!

I agree with everything everyone says! Using somet...

2011-03-13T12:02:06.336-04:00

I agree with everything everyone says! Using something different does take time to learn. I have tried Linux in the past and it was to hard for me to make things work.

I've just loaded Mint to have a play with, and am enjoying it. I haven't broken it yet, but I do like the way it works on my old laptop - fast. I do like its customisation abilities. It has it's downfalls, but hey so do the others. I could complain about MS and maybe I should, but I have found that this doesn't solve anything. Even when I paid MS money for support and complained to them directly, they still didn't care enough to fix their bugs (the bug I paid to be looked at was on XP, it has been carried through to Vista and now on my win7 machine - so much for paying $300 for new win7 code).

Nothing is perfect, I've seen the screen of death on OSX and also the annoying window that says the app has stopped responding.

But wow, MINT has made my day with its repository and all the little gismo's. Showed my narrow minded Mac friend MINT, yesterday and his response was wow.

Everyone just wants everything to work smoothly all of the time. No OS can do this yet. Everyone wants to run all the software that they want on their OS. No OS can do that either.

But anyone wanting to give Linux a try - try MINT, have some fun, try to break it.

You guys are all great. xo

i miss reinstalling windows every now and then :(...

2010-09-25T11:01:35.089-04:00

i miss reinstalling windows every now and then :(

Some of these arguments are senseless. The thing a...

2010-08-10T03:06:02.598-04:00

Some of these arguments are senseless. The thing about Linux is that if you find that software is not up to standard or does not have some functionality you like , you are free to improve it.

"Linux distributions consist of a development Team of maximum 15 people." This is not true. Ubuntu and Debian consist of a team of thousands of developers.

"Fact is, Linux still can't hold up to Windows. Linux gets better each time, but some things also get worse (e.g. often released with beta software and therefore hell lot of bugs)." That is why you can submit bugs to the maintainers or upstream developers or get the source and fix it yourself.

"The Linux kernel gets changed at least once every two weeks in the open source community by some novice who thinks they know how to code and improve upon something but they don't and only makes flawed changes to script making it worse." The linux kernel changes every day and you can submit your own code or help in developing already existing code if you think it is not good enough.

"I miss my old boot time of 5 minutes and all the friendly antivirus alerts about half of the software i used being viruses" Windows slows down because of the registry that is loaded at boot. The more apps you have, the slower the boot.

"In my experience, Linux forums are populated with people who aren't very "welcoming" either and tend to be really insulting and condescending if you need help with basic setup. It's very hard to find people who will talk to you, assuming you know NOTHING about "kernels" "shells" "roots" etc., and actually helping you." You probably went to the wrong forum. There are free Unix & Linux e-books that can explain the things you do not know of and can help you if you get stuck.

And anyway, you can choose to use it if you want to. You're not forced to use it. If you think the change will be hard to get used to there are Linux Distributions (http://www.linux.com/directory/Distributions/) Like Zorin-OS that have a windows-like UI to make it easier to get used to linux.

Thre are so many appliances probably in your house or in your office like your dishwasher , Sony LCD TV , cisco router , wireless router , phone , its surprising some people still find linux hard to use and get used to.

Google OS is cloudware, which is utterly pointless...

2010-01-05T13:11:08.215-05:00

Google OS is cloudware, which is utterly pointless, and people will realize it the first time their internet goes out for an hour or when they get their first wireless broadband bill. I don't know why all these geeks cream their jeans over turning home computers into dumb terminals, it's completely irrational.

Ubuntu already is attracting people (the poor dears).

Linux itself does not suck, at least it sucks much less than Windows and the non-BSD parts of OSX, and it's the only sane choice for servers. Unfortunately I'm back to WinXP SP3 on the desktop, since the current Gnome and KDE desktops really do suck, bite, and blow, plus Adobe has yet to release the code for Photoshop under the GPL (and no, GIMP is not quite the same thing).

I switched over to Ubuntu a couple of months ago a...

2010-01-03T17:13:06.433-05:00

I switched over to Ubuntu a couple of months ago and I just hate it! I don't get to worry about any of the spyware that destroyed my copy of Vista, and I really hate the fast boot up time. Also, this entire apt-get thing constantly reminds me of how much I liked sorting through crippled shareware pretending to be freeware on the Internet. Stupid pre-compliled software repositories with just about anything a geek like me could ever need!

Nice ironic article. Fact is, Linux still can'...

2009-11-06T09:44:45.739-05:00

Nice ironic article. Fact is, Linux still can't hold up to Windows. Linux gets better each time, but some things also get worse (e.g. often released with beta software and therefore hell lot of bugs).
Yes, I have fate that Linux will sometime push Windows from the throne - but it will not be done by all these hundreds of different distributions. In my opinion Google OS will be the first Linux OS, that will be able to attract people. Most Linux distributions consist of a development Team of maximum 15 people. Google has a much bigger amount of software developers and I guess they will throughly be testing usability, an easy option to make software or drivers to attract hardware developers, more compatibility etc. etc. Although I don't like Google either because of all their Data collection, I think they could make the breakthrough.
Regards -

Seriously... Thumbs up for this article. i use Deb...

2009-10-18T19:25:54.305-04:00

Seriously... Thumbs up for this article. i use Debian and it's the best. Screw MS and their overprised, underdeveloped crap. Plus, like you say, little to no viruses and wow! Legal free software! I don't need to pirate everything and get trogens! What a concept! How dare Linux be so awesome. I miss my Windows machines where 90% of the hardware capability was being used by bloated crap. Vista? JUNK! Linux in general? WAAAAAAY BETTER! If you really can't get over not using Windows, just use a VM or WINE. At least then the viruses are contained...

Why is it that when ever an article about linux vs...

2009-10-17T07:45:15.602-04:00

Why is it that when ever an article about linux vs. windows comes up neither side presents a REASONABLE argument. It always comes down to "Linux sucks cause I can't do what I did in Windows" and "Windows sucks cause I overclocked my vid card and now windows doesn't work properly!!"

To be fair, I use OSX, Windows & Linux. I try to use them equally as I'm expected to support all 3 in my current position.

To the Linux freaks (Not meant in a bad way): Using dramatics to prop up Linux doesn't do anyone any good. A few comments from above

- Windows takes 5 minutes to load! Really? It takes at most 10 minutes to solve this problem. Remove startups from msconfig, don't use Norton, clean out the viruses you got trying to look at porn or pirate music/movies/software and don't by a bargain basement PC expecting it to run like dream.

- I have to spend days looking for a CD to reinstall drivers after a format! You can back up drivers manually, use one of the many programs out there to roll all the drivers into an exe, save the CD, use something like driver genius to download all drivers automatically, visit the manufactures website and download them all at once, use a system profiler to figure out what you have and download them seperately or use the recovery partition that comes with many laptops these days. With so many options, why waste "days" looking for a CD? This is not a windows fault.

- Hardware just works under Linux! Again, this is wildly open remark. I come frequently come across hardware that isn't supported by Linux. My own laptop is a good example, I downloaded Ubuntu about 2 weeks ago and installed it. By default, my sound and wireless didn't work. Managed to get wireless working after a quick google search but the sound refused. Eventually I decided I had spent enough time on the issue and it was no longer worth the investment. On the other hand, my Snow Leapard install disc worked on first boot with the hackintosh CD. Windows also picked it up on install. At least with Windows, the hardest part tends to be finding the .exe and hitting the next, next, next, "I agree" & finish buttons.

All games work in Wine! While true from what I've experienced, it is beyond the average user to get this working. They want to go home, pop in the CD, blindly agree to the T&C's and move on to playing the game.

I find linux to be generally enjoyable when it does work. When something doesn't it is beyond my grandmother to fix. At least with Windows, I can talk my 16yo brother how to get things working over the phone. Linux would be another story.

Indeed, linux sucks. I miss my old boot time of 5 ...

2009-10-09T19:14:44.831-04:00

Indeed, linux sucks. I miss my old boot time of 5 minutes and all the friendly antivirus alerts about half of the software i used being viruses. And of course, searching for drivers all around the internet after losing a cd was a ball too. I shouldn't have switched over to Linux...

But seriously now. My Ubuntu runs twice as smoothly as the pre-installed windows ever did and I'm using compiz with a full set of effects on a small netbook. Whoever wants to use windows, go ahead. It's your money. But you sure as hell ain't getting ME back on that hell ;)

RT-ing this. hehe..

2009-10-07T00:01:29.505-04:00

RT-ing this. hehe..

I've used linux for a long while, and I've...

2009-10-01T00:00:36.994-04:00

I've used linux for a long while, and I've gotten sick of it. I want it to fucking work, jesus. I don't care about using the cli as long as I don't have to google forums and browse through thousands of files. I want it to mount my DAMN mp3 player right, so when I type mount -rw it mounts it as read and write not read only, so I can't write my music to it and I have to browse forums just to fix the damn thing...
It has sucked my life, taking time away from me, compiling and trying to get shit to just work. I'm trying to learn keyboards and this just sucks my life more... it's the truth.

Linux is SMART & friendly, I love you LINUX.

2009-09-30T00:13:28.595-04:00

Linux is SMART & friendly, I love you LINUX.

we used to live in full with warnings environment:...

2009-09-28T23:32:58.798-04:00

we used to live in full with warnings environment: security warning, health warning, travel warning, u name it..and using OS that never warn us about computer security and anti virus warnings makes me feel awkward and asks too myself : "am i dreaming?how live can be so comfort?" this kind of question makes me crazy!!

I would gladly pay to use windows and the other so...

2009-09-24T19:43:28.172-04:00

I would gladly pay to use windows and the other software, £600 for MS office is a bargain. Jesus Christ it's a steal, no wonder it sells. I would pay hundreds of pounds for a windows license.

My time is just to precious. Linux makes sense if you're a broke student earning nothing.

When your actually earning a days wage, it makes sense spending £50 on an OS that doesn't need you to spend days (5 days in vi at £200/day soon adds up) doing some of the software development yourself. Windows lets me do my job. Guess what... I'm a software developer!

MS shareholders get rich. So what. Buy some shares yourself if you feel left out.

It means I can spend my time writing something someone will pay for, instead of finishing off the bits some schoolboy got bored with an gave up on!

Because the software I write runs on windows, I can actually afford to feed my kids, which is handy in the winter.

Linux has been a success, in the sense that is, and continues to be a monument to wasted talent and time. People who might have written useful code in a commercial environment, but instead have wasted their efforts producing junk.

It's nothing compared to reactOS, how it makes me laugh.

(Don't get me wrong, linux works great on a server.)

15. Packages break and dependency packages are mis...

2009-09-23T21:32:37.793-04:00

15. Packages break and dependency packages are missing aka dependency hell. Making any package doesnt always run as smoothly as you plan. Unless your running bsd or gentoo you run the 50/50 risk that it will either work and no packages will be broken or not have any dependency issues or it wont work and you'll have to spend the next two hours trouble shooting where something went wrong.

13. The only way to run any video games is through...

2009-09-23T21:32:20.926-04:00

13. The only way to run any video games is through wine or some other type of emulator, but in order to run it properly you would have to remove wine from the Z path or root directory so you dont catch any other .exe crap files you dont want to pick up and have placed in your root file system. And if your going to run wine for things like gaming or other software you cant find on linux or bsd your better off just running windows.

14.Setting up the media players for fedora and for opensuse is a nightmare. unless your running mandriva or pclinuxos or even pcbsd your pretty much screwed. You'll be having to download the stuff from third party sites and having to run the risk that some package will break on you while your making and building the file.

9. Up until recently KDE was the most unstable des...

2009-09-23T21:31:53.248-04:00

9. Up until recently KDE was the most unstable desktop enviorment used for both linux and bsd platforms. It had constant bugs and constant crashes and constantly needed to be patched or fixed

10. The linux kernel gets changed at least once every two weeks in the open source community by some novice who thinks they know how to code and improve upon something but they don't and only makes flawed changes to script making it worse. There is no approval board who reviews code and decides if it is acceptable or not. At least bsd has the approval board to decide if the code is stable enough to use before pushing it out to the general public for use.

11. The drivers for any bsd system are even worse than that for linux. There are fewer drivers for bsd than for linux such as printer, webcam, soundcard, videocard and sometimes even network adapter cards. Desktop BSD is the worst when it comes to driver issues. You can't even get a direct internet connection when your plug is connected directly to the motherboard, thats how lack of drivers there are for bsd.

12. The video card drivers for both linux and bsd arent nearly as good quality as they are for windows.

5. On bsd systems and some if not all linux there ...

2009-09-23T21:31:26.629-04:00

5. On bsd systems and some if not all linux there is a lack of drivers for a lot of hardware. My kodak all in one printer does not have any drivers for linux support and my logitech digital web cam does not have any drivers either or linux support to run this piece of hardware.

6. Sound cards or sound devices such as onboard 7.1 built in sound on motherboards don't always work UNLESS EXTENSIVELY CONFIGURED. The first year i installed pclinuxos i had massive sound issues where i could not get sound to work. It took 3 weeks and numerous complaints on different forums to find a solution to this problem.

7. There is absolutely no help service available to anyone who can physically take your linux machine and troubleshoot it ie geeksquad or pcw. Finding someone who has more knowledge of any working linux or bsd machine is extremely hard to find because there is a huge lack of physical support for it, BUT if you do find someone who works on it they will cost at least 125 to 150 an hour or even up to 2000 for an overnight job on the machine. Its not like you can take it over to joe's pc repair down the street and tell them something is wrong and they can trouble shoot it for you either.

8. The whole safe mode feature sucks compared to windows because you still have to run everything through the commandline and nothing through a graphic interface.

Ok first off linux does suck. yes it does suck and...

2009-09-23T21:31:03.759-04:00

Ok first off linux does suck. yes it does suck and here's a list of reasons why.

1. Unless you are really good at firewalls and i mean really good your going to have a hell of a time configuring one such as guarddog. The easier ones like firestarter just arent that good. And also you have to know exactly how to configure iptables, ipchains, and pf filters for bsd through the terminal which is a pain.

2. their firewalls don't come with any intrusion detection system. that has to be installed seperate ie. snort and the rule set of oink downloaded seperately. Mostly everything has to be ran through the terminal through commandlines instead of simple easy to use graphical interfaces. and their snort isnt that good compared to the windows intrusion detection systems of norton or zonealarm

3. there is no all in one security suite features for firewall and antivirus like norton or zonealarm have. instead with linux you have to have at least 2 or MORE programs just for your security settings and not counting your antivirus settings

4. antivirus such as clamav for linux suck. you need to use either avast or avg for linux and thats all they offer you for really good antivirus programs.

5. YES you can catch a linux virus even if your logged in as a standard user. When i ran mandriva last year in 2008 i caught the LKM trojan on my system and had to format the whole drive and start over. So you may not catch viruses as quickly but when you do they cause extensive amounts of damage to your system which can be unrepairable. Most rootkits are designed this way as was the case with the LKM trojan. A rootkit designed virus very hard to eliminate.

I've spent some days on Linux now, and while I...

2009-09-05T12:33:14.000-04:00

I've spent some days on Linux now, and while I already consider it clearly superior to Windows, I just can't switch because it won't run my favorite games and little nerdy obscure "Windows only" programs reliably. Sad but true.

"Linux is certainly not intuitive to someone without a hard computer background or an understanding of how to "talk" to computers."
Nonsense. People that are very used to Windows and the Windows ways of doing things will have a hard time adapting to Linux, that's all.

Meh. Everyone likes what they are comfortable wi...

2009-08-05T17:36:47.573-04:00

Meh. Everyone likes what they are comfortable with. I've been using Windows for years and years and have no complaints. Who gets viruses and crashes all of the time? Probably people constantly on Pirate Bay and/or messing with the registry, drivers, etc. I mean, you have to be completely retarded to mess up a fully updated XP system as it is pretty foolproof.

Honestly, I think Linux "sucks" because I "suck" at Linux. I tried Linux a few times but I found it to be more trouble than its worth--as another poster said it is for techie types. Last year, I wasted several evenings on linux.org trying to get Ubuntu working on my laptop until I finally gave up and I consider myself a pretty smart guy who has been working on Windows computers for years. Linux is certainly not intuitive to someone without a hard computer background or an understanding of how to "talk" to computers.

In my experience, Linux forums are populated with people who aren't very "welcoming" either and tend to be really insulting and condescending if you need help with basic setup. It's very hard to find people who will talk to you, assuming you know NOTHING about "kernels" "shells" "roots" etc., and actually helping you. This is probably because it is FREE and no one has any reason to help you. At least when you buy a product, a business has some duty to help its paying customers.

Linux is certainly objectively superior in many ways, but it still hasn't caught on with people like me: long-time Windows users. I have no reason to switch. Firefox and Open Office are free and all I need for most things. If there was a nice, user-friendly, entry-level, Linux OS that was foolproof than I would consider it. But then it probably wouldn't be Linux.

Windows is seeing the light. (well maybe not) but ...

2009-08-03T13:43:46.243-04:00

Windows is seeing the light. (well maybe not) but they did contribute code to linux because they know that their virtulization software will not have a chance without it being able to play nice with Linux. Linux will win in the end. Also I am running 3 external monitors, a wifi card on my desktop and even my router has linux. I have not problem with printing or doing anything. Linux has come a long way in the last few years and I think its more than ready for the mainstream.