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Comment Re:Windows 8 is not a catastrophe.... (Score 1) 880

Nobody else seems to have any trouble making their software "just work" on Linux. ...what?

Hell, I bought a bluetooth dongle that supposedly had no Linux support at all, I plugged it in and it just worked. On the Windows box I had to install software and drivers and reboot a couple of times, and it kinda sorta worked.

Congratulations on having the opposite experience to everyone else I guess.

In the last 10 years, MS and Linux have switched places in the useability and maintenance aspects. ... Anyone who has used both OSes lately is aware of this.

I use both on a daily basis, and you are living in a fantasy world.

Comment Re:Cargo Cult (Score 1) 349

I think you need to give it more time. Watch the first few seasons of the UK Top Gear. They were also pretty bad. One of the UK hosts (Clarkson?) said something to the effect that the hosts of the US Top Gear haven't had time to develop the deep hatred of each other that makes the UK show work.

Comment Re:Fast but its Bob (Score 1) 423

everything was office office office. Most people type, spellcheck, then print/email. Or they make ugly powerpoints and the most advanced feature used is to import a graph from excel. This is not what MS should have based their entire company on; and if it truly was the core of the company they would have put office on Linux long ago.

Where do you think MS makes their money? And why would they bother porting Office to a platform with a 1% market share?

Comment Re:really?? (Score 1) 1134

If you type commands into a line it's cli.

No, it isn't. A command line Google just be a black screen with a bash prompt and you'd have to type something like:

> search --image --string "natalie protman" --exclude "hot rgits" --exclude "petrified" --site slashdot.org --perpage 20 --safesearch 0

Comment Re:Just what they want Linux to become ? (Score 1) 1134

The way plugging in any new piece of hardware starts a hardware installation wizard that hardly ever seems to work and then causes people to go hunting for some CD or driver on the net?

I've never had it fail. What are you doing wrong?

The way you need to reinstall Windows every now and then because it mysteriously slows down or bits and pieces of it stop working?

I've never had to reinstall. What are you doing wrong?

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