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Fucking Linux [May. 9th, 2008|04:38 pm]
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Goddamn Linux hippies. Liars All of them.

"Sure," they say. "C'mon in! The Linux is fine! What? You're worried that it's going to be difficult to make the transition from Windows to Linux? Pbbffffttt! Piece of cake! No sweat! Nothing to it," they said. "We're not complicated and scary anymore! We're all friendly now! Why, we look just like MacOS! Come! Join us!"

Hah. If only I had listened to my gut instead of those God-damned LINUX FUCKING HIPPIES!!!

I installed Ubuntu 7 on a Dell Latitude D610 I have lying about the office. I didn't want to install it on anything newer beccause I wanted to give the hippies time enough to reverse-engineer all the hardware to roll their own drivers, something the Linux hippies are somewhat good at.

What they are decidedly NOT good at is writing error messages.

The ATI display adapter driver didn't install properly. Nor did the Broadcom 43xx wireless LAN driver. But rather than tell me that the Linux Hippies hadn't gotten around to dismantling ATI's or Broadcom's driver yet, all I got was this:



So I tried to enable the Broadcom driver:



After clicking Enable Firmware, I got this:



What the fuck does that mean!?

After a bit of searching, I ultimately found this post on the Ubuntu forums. In a nutshell, it was a whole big long huge gobbledygook-laden cluster-fuck of all kinds of low-level shit before you even get to the point where you can ask the fucking forums for help!

Right. Just like MacOS. Uh-huh.

God-damn fucking LINUX HIPPIES! THEY SHOULD ALL DIE!!! No wonder Microsoft rules the fucking planet!

Y'know what comparing Linux--any Linux--to a commercial, boxed OS like Windows or MacOS is like?

You go to a local diner and buy a hamburger. It's a good burger, fixed just the way you like it and it tastes really good, just like you're used to having them. You've been to this diner before, and every once in a blue moon the cook has an off day and you don't get cheese on your burger, but overall you feel you get a decent burger for your money.

A few days later you go over to your hippie friend Steve's house because he invited you over to have a burger. He doesn't believe in locking his doors, taking showers ever, or not using Patchouli oil. And he likes to dabble around in the kitchen. Oh--did I mention that Steve's a vegan, too? So he puts before you a sort-of greenish meat-like veggie patty with soy cheese, organic homemade ketchup, alfalfa sprouts, and green tomatoes on a whole-wheat bun with whole rolled oats on top. Oh yeah, and he's not much of a cook, either, 'cause he only started an Intro to the Kitchen class at the Learning Annex because his roommate who could cook up and moved out because Steve couldn't come up with the rent--so your "burger" isn't quite cooked all the way through. But you choke the thing down anyway because you don't want to be rude, and end up sick the rest of the night because your system is completely rejecting the horrid thing you just introduced it to. But Steve keeps insisting, over and over and over again as you get more and more and more nauseous, "I don't understand... it's just like a regular hamburger."

You get Windows and MacOS at the diner. You get Linux from the same guy who force-fed you the Hippieburger.

I'll stick with my diner burger, thanks.
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Comments:
From: [info]kozmcrae
2008-05-09 10:20 pm (UTC)

You were lucky

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It was fortunate that you failed in your attempt to install Ubuntu. You would have become a "God-damn fucking LINUX HIPPIE" if it worked. Your success at not becoming a "God-damned LINUX FUCKING HIPPIE" was assured by using the previous version of Ubuntu. Had you chosen the latest version, the one that's plastered all over the Internet and impossible to avoid, you would be eating vegan style and liking it.

One thing I don't understand, why did you even temp fate by inserting a Linux CD into one of your computers?
From: [info]wlofie
2008-05-09 10:31 pm (UTC)

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I'll fully agree linux is in general not ready for desktop, much less laptop usage.

ooh it can be done. (anything can be done, to include webserver on Dos)

laptops are particularily nasty since they tend to have weird chipsets, run smaller batches, ie less people with need for drivers, ie less people developing for it. so for me i'll run winxp pro on the laptop with linux in a vmware machine. if needed i'll run it up with a live-distro

i will also say i feel the same way about both linux and microsoft on some points. windows has advantages, mac os has advantage and so does linux.
they aren't in the same areas.

heck even freebsd vs linux has differing advantages
does that mean one is better?
i guess it could be argued so (seems you just did)
i'll take that peacenic 'fscking pinko commie peacenic hippie eurotrash bum' attitude that 'no, they are in fact...good at different things'

just like i wouldn't put a star pitcher in as a quarterback and expect good result, so wouldn't i put certain operating systems to certain tasks.

--
your 'friendly' (not user friendly) linux hippy


From: (Anonymous)
2008-05-12 01:32 pm (UTC)

You get what you pay for.

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Next time pay for Red Hat or Suse, just like you would for Windows or Mac-OS. I guess you could call RH/Suse the turkey burger. All the same fixins as the dinner burger, but not quite there. Yet it'll smoke that veggie burger any day. :-)