Comments on: Windows 7 will kill desktop Linux?

By: Jack

Jack — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:49:31 +0000

I know this is a little late, but another note you forgot in the article is that no one’s been ignoring Desktop Linux at all, and it vastly outpretties even the new OSes from Apple and Microsoft. I have no idea what this guy is talking about on that front- Linux is by far the most usable OS I’ve come in contact with, since the GUI improvements actually provide function, not just prettiness.

By: Rod_Carlson

Rod_Carlson — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 07:39:28 +0000

Cyber Akuma you are a windows fanboy. About the guy who said loading Windows 7 will blow up an old computer, I would say he is right as all new versions of Windows require more RAM, more CPU, to do the same crappy work. Viruses are always a problem with windows. Sure in the days of 95 I could look at the the limited task list and know when a illegal process existed. But, since then I’ve had spyware/virus problem gallore with windows. Who wants to spend the time every weekend running a stinking virus scanner because windows is too stupid to protect the kernel files? Further, I tried Ubuntu and had some issues with the wireless card etc. There was a learning curve, but I likened it to the pain of windows always running virus scanners performing millions of backups etc. The difference is that Windows is perpetual hell of a time sink, whereas setting up the wireless drivers was a day of work. Since I invested the learning curve I no longer have to keep up with the Microsoft Jones, and I have a super fast computer, with no virus problems. I don’t have to upgrade every three years, for a 150 dollar fee. And the application openoffice is much better than Word. Firefox kicks I.E. butt hands down, if you don’t believe it look at the ratings. I love linux and now that I invested the up front time on Ubuntu, I will never go back to Windows (Never!). Further, when I go home (to my dads) I will install a dual boot of Ubuntu with all its eyecandy on my parents home computer. Because I know that in two years, Microsoft will stop supporting its piece of crap software and start publishing more exploits for windows hackers to obsolete it, all the while offering a supported model at $500.00 upgrade. At this time I will tell my Dad, boot into Ubuntu linux. And he will see how nice free can be. No going to the store for fixie supportable windows blow version for the same old functionality and more hardware needed to support it. Linux will continue to grow because of people like me, always offering it as a substitue (cheap, fast) and safer than virus prone Windows. Even if I have to install it myself on all my friends and families computers. Whats the best advertising? Word of mouth baby! Of course Windows lovers will always resort to get a virus scanner, but this is really unnecessary and just as bad as people ignoring wireless support problems in linux. People are sick of buggy/disabled features of Microsoft. In my opinion, why linux will win in the end is simple economics. As the price goes down the demand goes up. Linux represents free and at some point its adoption will be unavoidable. Linux is a guerilla warfare against the goliath, it antagonizes and can dump a product for free whereas whenever the goliath tries this he will be in court for monopolistic anti-dumping. Netbooks (Linux) are deleting Microsofts revenue and profits, they are having to give away software to keep market share against Linux. But in so doing they are losing business against themself. People say how long can Ubuntu last, maybe not long but there will be another linux vendor to replace them. Better question is how long can Microsoft last when it needs money to support Redmond development. But can’t without losing market share to free? Linux does not need this infusion, its already free and still competing quite nicely. Microsoft is hemorraging trying to stop the blood loss infered by linux adoption in cheap markets including third world. Further I believe that the operating systems and Word are saturated business models. I don’t see where Microsoft could convince me that they have that much lead anyway, and if I really want their crappy software I’d install it on a virtual machine (like free Sun Virtualbox). Further, if I was as corrupt as Microsoft and wanted their virus prone software, I’d bittorent it for free. Because everyone knows its your fault if you don’t back it up on preinstalled computers and it dies due to its virus/worm issues. Golly shucks, I didn’t run my virus scanner this weekend, I guess I deserve losing my Microsoft sucks. Better get my reinstall disk…oops no disk..have to buy it again? Forget electronic lockers or backup disks (which they don’t support anymore), why would anyone ever want to pay Redmond for their paranoid schizo control freak ways? No reinstallation disk? Well I got a solution, to all my friends, download Ubuntu. Then you can have a better OS anyway and if it dies you won’t be fretting how you are going to reinstall it without Dell/HP etc giving you a restore CD (which they don’t anymore!) for a fee. Thanks Microsux. Your a disease, a virus, and economics will eat you alive. Now please continue to eat your self alive to try to control Linux adoption. This should be real fun.

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By: Dale Kaup

Dale Kaup — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:49:31 +0000

I like that GNU/Linux has a guiding philosophy and it’s about time the vendors got w/ GNU/Linux’s principles not the other way around.

It’s about time IE starts following W3C standards as firefox does it’s so annoying to run across non-standard webpages at work that only work on IE and as a result people say Firefox is no good. Which is total bull of course.

By: Venture

Venture — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:52:01 +0000

The Mac marketshare figures are all wrong.

Apple’s current marketshare (worldwide) is 3.25 percent. The lowest it’s been in the last ten years was 1.8 percent.

These figures were arrived at by comparing Apple’s figures with the IDC and Gartner amounts.

By: Anon

Anon — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 19:51:34 +0000

Not our fault you are too retarded to do a google search, and most likely find something that will help.

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By: deadletter

deadletter — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 07:09:56 +0000

I’d like to see you back that up.

personally I don’t like Ubuntu I normally use LinuxMint which uses the ubuntu Kernal, bits from fedora, open suse and other linux OS and from all that they managed to make a pretty decant OS and it also supports hardware, drivers and media formats pretty well ^^.

I will be interested to see how the final version of win7 runs, vista was pretty nasty when it came to using 3d based application and rendering.

By: anonimous

anonimous — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 03:15:24 +0000

For MAC fans , I wanna inform you that Microsoft OWNS a part of APPLE , and APPLE is MICROSOFT.

Damn, some of you don`t really see the NASDAQ…

So there it is not any competition in WINDOWS vs OSX , it is just Linux and Microsoft Corporation.

Search wikipedia , windows 7 will go down and Microsoft founded SCO group to sue Novel and Novel win the trial that makes Microsoft without 110 milion $ that is enough to make a new Windows OS.

So the fact is , that this year the financial crisis is more than a bomb to Microsoft itself.

So no one will buy new pc neither Corporations , the only ones to survive are Intel and Linux

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By: Geoff Corey

Geoff Corey — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:08:03 +0000

Wow. Nice title to a non-article. I’m pretty sure there will beLiinux on the desktop and Apple will still be selling after Windows 7 comes out. As for myself, I’ve been burned and burned out on Microsoft’s stupidity too long. Been using Linux as a primary OS since ‘98 and it does everything I want.

Moved dear old Dad over to Apple two years ago because I got tired of rebuilding his machine from all the problems with viruses, malware, corrupt registry entries and such. Apple just works with minimal BS of running an endless array of processes Microsoft and 3rd party software companies keep dumping on the OS. Remember good old Symantac Anti-Virus getting pre-installed? Unable to remove without a special utility. What crap . . .

You all let me know how the latest shenanigans of Microsoft’s marketing engineers works out! I’ll still be running Linux and my parents will still be running Apple.

By: Sergio

Sergio — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 08:40:02 +0000

Windows won’t kill Linux on the desktop because there’s nothing to kill. Linux has never featured. Linux is competing with iPhone and Playstation for market share – its hilarious…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Windows_and_Linux#cite_note-netapplications-11

http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=8&qpmr=100&qpdt=1&qpct=3&qptimeframe=M&qpsp=119&qpnp=1

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 01:50:28 +0000

“Truth be told, I’m not very interested in operating systems these days: the overwhelming majority of things I use my computers for are done through my web browser, so the OS is becoming less and less relevant to me.”

Possibly the stupidest fucking thing I’ve read so far this year. Maybe last year too. Morons shouldn;t write software reviews guys.

By: Irshad

Irshad — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:21:14 +0000

Give me a driver for Sony Ericsson USB for Ubuntu??

By: balls_balls_balls

balls_balls_balls — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 14:11:00 +0000

The author of this post is just trying to stir controversy to get attention and traffic. What a cuntcock.

By: Simon

Simon — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 05:50:16 +0000

Wouldn’t matter if Windows 7 sucked a tennis ball through a garden hose. There’s thousands of MCP’s, MCSE’s etc out there supporting company systems. In NZ, I think there’s something like 25 qualified Mac engineers – in the whole (admittedly tiny) country. The Linux certification / study stream is even more diffuse, with the exception of Red Hat’s offerings.

If Windows hasn’t killed Linux already – it won’t. Neither will the status quo change too much. I can’t understand why anyone would get upset about it. It’s life – they make it, we support it, eventually it works. Even Vista.

By: Craig E. Jones

Craig E. Jones — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 03:46:48 +0000

I agree – I’ve been a Microsoft languages developer for 12 years, am starting to do projects in several open source languages, and am also developing for the iPhone.

Having a Mac lets me work from whatever platform I need to.

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By: WulfCry

WulfCry — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 12:26:36 +0000

Vista is the unfriendly O/S that came from
Redmond it had nice feature except the one that really where useful and still missing more than just that!.

Windows 7 is the better answer to a mistake made by Microsoft with vista and they finally got it right. Microsoft used it own research to enhance
and made the O/S more friendly. I’ve used vista but sticked with XP more.

For me whatever you do on the net made easily with upcoming service’s cant always be supportive on the computer operating system will be ”key” in supporting features that elevate computing if we want them to do what we want.

Linux a little brother following the trends set by these other O/S makes it versatile enough to compete and catching up fast and I guess if some of the development in windows 7 and Mac o/s hits linux the race is on again. Free cheap vs Big expensive.