Does Linux have an Amiga feel?

[nicholas]

And this attitude would be Why People Do Not Like the Linux User Culture.

Jackass.


I spent about eight years making multiple attempts to get into Linux. I've tried at least half a dozen distros, in multiple versions. I took a course on it when I was in college. And ultimately, I realized that I was putting more work into trying to force myself to acclimate to a badly-designed system for the sake of ideology than I'd spent learning every other OS I've used put together, and concluded that it just wasn't worth the pain.

But no, you go ahead and keep insisting that I just haven't tried.


Which is an awfully convenient loophole for crappy toolmakers.

See sig.

[nicholas]

Oh FFS John, give it a rest you whiny old queen.

[nicholas]

Amithlon: Best Linux Distro at the moment.

Fixed that for you.

[nicholas]

Long-time lurker here. One of the things that people often don't take into account is that Mac OS and AmigaOS are both written to run on specific hardware, whereas people are trying to run Linux and Windows on a much wider selection of hardware. This isn't a problem so much for Windows due to its market dominance, but there is a lot of hardware that simply has no official support under Linux, and this leads to a lot of people searching for solutions that are sometimes quite complicated. Then desktop Linux gets blamed for a bad user experience because of this.

I am not going to tell you that Linux is perfect by any means. All OS's have their problems. For me it comes down to: which battles am I willing to fight? It's easy to be tribalistic, standing in one corner and exaggeratedly bashing the OS on the other side (Winblow$ BSODs, LAWLZ!... Linux?? So I'll have to recompile my kernel every two hours?, etc.) In the end, I made a decision based on what was the best fit for me. My OS doesn't have to be "the superior OS" for me to feel good about myself for my choice.

A rational choice of tools based on what fits your workflow best?  How dare you come here with such reasonable thinking?!?!Eleventyone!!1!

[nicholas]

I wouldn't mind if this thread was locked, as it has become too boring.
The same argument is just repeating itself.

Yes lock the thread.

Indeed yet another thread with boorish whiners insisting that their world view and their needs are the only valid view and needs, bullying others from the safety of their chair and keyboard who most likely wouldn't last 5 seconds in a real world confrontation before getting their nose broken.

Who would ever have thought it possible? :/

Autism or just plain old Delusions of Grandeur and arrogance? Short man syndrome perhaps?

Place your bets folks......

[nicholas]

I'd like to know what someone's capability in physical combat has to do with an argument over the merits of a particular operating system and/or its similarity to a different operating system. But you know what? I don't really care. You're welcome to come to my house and try beating me up. (PM me and I'll give you my address, Internet Tough Guy.) You'll probably even succeed, because hell, I've never claimed any kind of physical prowess. But it won't make a damn bit of difference. You might be fully capable of besting me physically, but you're still a thin-skinned thug who thinks that violence is an appropriate retort to a verbal disagreement.

Who said anything about beating you up?  I merely stated that there are people posting in this thread who if they spoke like that and aggressively tried to force their views on others in the real world they would likely be met with violence at some point in their life.

It seems some people are unable to accept that the views and preferences of others are just as valid as their own and resort to insults and threatening behaviour.

The word for such people is 'bully' and bullies by their very nature are pathetic cowards.

For someone who claims to be the father of an autistic child, you sure do like to throw around the 'tard label. Have some class, will you?

If the people who are unable to accept others views as being just as valid as their own then they are either autistic and therefore their behaviour is understandable or they are just a tw@.

[nicholas]

I don't believe you are on the Autistic Spectrum John as you don't demonstrate the associated cogntive abilities.  

You appear to be an ill-mannered angry little boy who gives off the impression that he believes the world revolves around him. I'm not alone in observing this, I'm just the only one willing to say it in public because I have a loud mouth.

For the record I developed Windows software professionally for 15yrs, along with AS/400, HP-UX, Xenix, MS-DOS, Oracle RDBMS, MS/SQL, Informix, BTrieve and an Israeli post-4GL you've never heard of.

I hold a Post Graduate Certificate in Education that enables me to teach Computer Science at Degree Level, so what makes you believe that your opinions (that you repeatedly state as irrefutable fact) are more informed than mine or any of the other even more highly educated CS professionals that have posted in this thread?

You don't like Linux, the GNU userland nor X11 and its myriad window managers and toolkits, WE GET IT.

Now please give it a friggin rest.