One More Time: Is It Really 'Game Over' for Linux?
Every so often here in the Linux blogosphere, a headline pops up in the news and you just know it's going to be a rough week.
Case in point: "Mobile Proliferation Killed Linux Hopes for World Domination."
Yes, for those who missed it, that was a real headline in the news last week, courtesy of Forrester analyst Mike Gualtieri, and yes, it's made more than a few bloggers' blood pressure rise.
We've all seen this play before, of course, but who can resist another rousing round of the Linux Desktop Debate? Not many in the Linux blogosphere, that's for sure.
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For those who missed it
You didn't miss much. Here's my favorite part of this week's :
>>Just today I watched as a user on a Linux article asked for a feature that has been in Windows for a decade, the ability to compress directories. Did someone say "That's a good question, why doesn't EXT do that?" nope he got heaps of insults before he was told to write a script that would compress and mount the directory as a loopback! all that for a feature that is two clicks and a checkbox in Windows!
http://tinyurl.com/3fckg8l
Nice to have some things you can always count on, For example, every discussion of Linux draws at least one arrogant comment from someone who thinks he knows all about it, and displays his ignorance with delicious extravagance.
who can resist reading the
who can resist reading the musings of MS trolls? why, i can.
never clicked over, but saw the word "mobile" in the anti-linux headline, thought, oh, microsoft at it again, and when you have the words "microsoft, mobile" in the same thought, you have to chuckle. which i did.
Oh, the humanity! The stupid, stupid humanity!
>>Go to ANY forum, take your choice, what do you see? "Open up bash and type" esoteric workarounds for all. Pages and pages and pages of arcane CLI gobbledygook and watch out! don't slip! You better be 100% perfect on your typing skills friend, as that 70s era terminal has NO spellcheck and NO autocomplete and ONE single mistyped word can hose the whole system! Now ask for a simple solution with NO CLI and see what you get, you'll get scorn, you'll get hate, you'll get the "M$" brigade charging to remove the unfaithful from your sight.
What this guy doesn't know is that, since late 2009, we've had copy and paste.
>>But when someone would rather steal the other guy's product than take yours for free that should be a cluebat to the side of the head.
Not seeing your point. Doesn't "steal" mean "to take for free?"
>>The problem with Linux is the community and developers do NOT listen, instead they hurl insults. Just today I watched as a user on a Linux article asked for a feature that has been in Windows for a decade, the ability to compress directories. Did someone say "That's a good question, why doesn't EXT do that?" nope he got heaps of insults before he was told to write a script that would compress and mount the directory as a loopback! all that for a feature that is two clicks and a checkbox in Windows!
Screenshot of Linux compressing a directory graphically.
http://tinyurl.com/3fckg8l
And finally, PROOF THAT LINUX IS WINDOWS 98
>>>But I stand by my statement that Linux IS Win98 and I can PROVE it. Remove CLI from Win 7 and OSX and what happens...the OS continues to function because the CLI interpreter is not a VITAL SUBSYSTEM that the entire OS is written around. Remove CLI from either Win98 or Linux what happens? The OS fails to boot because THE OS CAN"T FUNCTION WITHOUT CLI and that is a sad truth.
Oh, the huge manatee!
> Not seeing your point. Doesn't "steal" mean "to take for free?"
Well, no. Take a deep breath. Did you just steal a lungful of air?
Not that I disagree with you in general. I don't. The guy sounds like an idiot. But there's more to "steal" than "take for free." And there are better ways to counter that point anyway. You can legally download and read all of Shakespeare for free, or you can put yourself at risk of prosecution by "stealing" a pirate download of a Britney Spears album. By the OP's logic, that "cluebat" proves Spears better than Shakespeare. If that were true, I wouldn't want to live on this planet any more.
Well...
>>Well, no. Take a deep breath. Did you just steal a lungful of air?
In terms of literal definitions, I know you're right. In terms of his argument, the distinction is not important. You know anybody who's done time for illegally downloading Windows for his own use? There's no risk, no consequences, not much difference. It's another free download.
You know what I think? If not for Linux, Microsoft would make it a lot harder to bootleg Windows. You're welcome, Windows users.
Anyway, yeah, huge idiot. Did you see the part where warns us that we're going to destroy our systems by typing an extra comma into the terminal?