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Comment Re: Resolution (Score 1) 397

I'm pretty sure there are Linux alternatives to all those tools if you look hard enough. KDE System Guard, for example. Even without additional tools, simply running Linux programs from a console often produces a wealth of debug information that can help with troubleshooting, something that is not available on Windows.

Comment Re:Technological novice or not ... (Score 1) 193

If you take a tablet or smartphone today and try to say a web browser is not a part of the OS, you would get the same funny look as if you said the scheduler is not a part of a Unix system.

A web browser is not a part of the OS. There, I've said it, and it's true. On my Android phone, I can just delete the Browser.apk file and the web browser is gone, and nothing else on the phone will be affected.

Comment Re:WTF (Score 1) 814

It's sort of like when people complain about "the gays" and how they won't just "mind their own business and keep it to themselves"

I'm one of those people who complain.

while everyone saying that is busy trying to invade their bedroom and their private/personal lives.

Why the hell would I want to invade their bedroom? No way in hell do I ever want to watch faggots buggering each other.

Comment It still costs me nothing to use (Score 1) 1215

PC at work has Windows installed, so I don't really have a choice. At home, I installed Windows using reg key I stole from work - unused reg key, that is. Yes, I'm a software pirate and proud of it. I'll stop installing Windows when it no longer becomes possible for me to pirate it. I will never buy it because I don't think it's worth the price, especially when I can install Linux for free.

Comment Re:Wine is like GNUstep (Score 1) 115

Wine is a compatibility layer. That's it. It is neither a virtual machine nor an emulator. An analogy is if you add an extension to Openoffice to make it able to edit, say a Word 2013 document. That doesn't make the Openoffice extension a Word 2013 emulator. Likewise, Wine allows you to run Windows executables in Linux, or in other words, you can run Windows programs in Linux using Wine, but Wine itself doesn't emulate an operating system.

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