Your not alone! http://piestar.net/2009/07/16/apple-the-new-microsoft/

It's become the Internets equivelant of Fox News. Accolades, comments and opinions are not based on ideas or content, they are instead based on the company suggesting them and the party line. It's just a fanboy echo-chamber hell bent on promoting an agenda, with the whole concept of discussing an idea or product based on merit being entirely alien.

What do you expect if programmers drive the development process? These things simply are not important to them.

You're an idiot. 1: You can trademark a word provided it is not relevant to the field it is in. Windows is a trademark. Apple is a trademark. 2: Wiki is a word, Encyclopedia is a word. Wikiencyclopedia I don't think is trademarked but you may have difficulties (IANAL). Since 'pedia' isn't a word, and Wikipedia isn't a concatenation of Wiki and Encyclopedia I really fail to see your point. 3: Micro is a word. Software is a word. So I can trademark MicrosoftArt according to you and be 100% safe from getting sued?

I know, it's not like MS had a 3d compositing demo, complete with wobbly windows, over six years ago ... wait, they did. http://piestar.net/2009/03/25/compiz-microsoft-and-originality/ The amount of original things that Linux has come up with I can count on the fingers of one hand.

Claiming I am posting things false while cherry-picking a massively skewed and biased source to back up your opinion is pretty rich. Actual usage statistics in the *real world* peg Linux usage at about 0.5%, Mac usage at about 10% and the rest is Windows (with a few percent for other random devices). I suppose it is an improvement from the 0.3% from a couple of years ago, but still nothing like the figure you provided. Unless you want to play 'that game', in which case I could try to pull figures from the Windows Update page and claim they are represntative of real world usage. I stick by my claims.

The difference is nobody is actually using Linux which gives the claims a certain level of credence. Oh, that and also the fact that people freely admit Windows has faults rather than feeling the need to 'debunk' every single negative opinion.

Earliest Photoshop I used was 5.0, and GIMP is still miles behind that, even though it is over a decade old. That's a lot of catching up to do!

But years ago people like you were saying exactly the same thing - Linux is perfect, it has no problems, your only problem is 'it's not windows'. Yet a couple of a years down the line somehow the problems get admitted to in the name of 'try it now, it's perfect'. No doubt in a couple of years you'll be saying the same thing. 'It used to suck, but it's so much better now'.

Thats the thing. If they don't like it they can opt out at any time they want - there are plenty of technical fixes to solve this problem, so why are they resorting to lawyers?

I call him rare, and potentially unique. The fact that the blog you link to is a: one I already know and b: probably the only one I know says how rare they really are.

I've been saying this for _years_. I would write a long winded rant here but since I have written a blog entry on it ages ago you might as well read it there - Clicky here! Needless to say the guy is spot and the fact that there is now over 300+ comments on this thread means that he certainly touched a nerve.

More like Windows 95 since after all this time it seems that Ubuntu has only managed to create a bad knockoff. :)

I think when it comes to using terms like 'amazing' around Linux (and Ubuntu in particular) is that it has been so bad for so long that the fact that it works as it should is being treated like an amazing success, rather than an expected situation.