Windows 10 - Linux Edition

[FreedByte]

If anyone in this thread is interested, there's a great talk given by Bryan Lunduke each year, the most recent one called '"Linux Sucks" - 2014' on youtube. It has some "bad words" so I can't post it here (got in trouble for that before for a different video ) but I believe I am allowed to private message the link if you can't find it on youtube.

 

[FreedByte]

also this:

"You use Linux everyday"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVpbFMhOAwE

 

[lesliedellow]

also this:

"You use Linux everyday"

Fortunately I don't use a tablet for much, apart from the web or YouTube. For any "serious" computing, I use Windows and a desktop.

 

[FreedByte]

Fortunately I don't use a tablet for much, apart from the web or YouTube. For any "serious" computing, I use Windows and a desktop.

You don't use facebook or google services?

 

[lesliedellow]

You don't use facebook or google services?

No, I don't use Facebook, mainly because I think it is a crap site. And Bing is my default search engine.

 

[MoreCoffee]

also this:

"You use Linux everyday"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVpbFMhOAwE

I am not sure why frequent patching and frequent kernel releases is a virtue (according to the narrator in the video clip).

I do have an android phone and I like it, if I had a windows phone I would probably like it too, the same goes for an iphone (in fact I did have an iphone and it was fine). So while it is true that android is widely used it is also true that it is not inherently superior to either ios or Windows Phone.

My tablet is also android based, but if I was given a Microsoft Surface Pro 2 or 3 then I'd be as pleased as punch to have it and use it. As it is I use my Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 mainly for browsing and entertainment. It isn't really well suited for work like applications yet. Maybe in the future it will be.

On my PC I run Windows 7. I use it because all of my hardware works with it, all of my work-like applications run on it, and all of my entertainment and general computing applications run on it; including google chrome and its associated apps which synch with my phone and tablet. What more could I want? Besides with infrequent new OS releases from MS I end up buying an OS every decade or so and that is very cost effective when one considers that the OEM version that comes with PCs costs $100 more or less. That means $10 per year and that is quite cheap. Ubuntu may be free but over the past decade it has cost me a lot more time (and time is money very frequently) than has my Windows XP (and now Windows 7).

 

[Dave-W]

Well we have rightly seen Microsoft's new CEO (nutella or whatever is name is) giving praise to Linux recently and to further this assimilation Microsoft introduces OneGet. Yes the company of innovations has announced a software repository tool for the command line - oh, praise innovation

Command line? You mean like the MicroSoft Disk Operating System (aka MS DOS) 3.1? YAY!!! (BTW - that was WAY before Torvalds started coding Linux)

MS DOS 3.1 - 1985
Torvalds starts coding Linux - 1991

C:\>_

 

[EphesiaNZ]

Command line? You mean like the MicroSoft Disk Operating System (aka MS DOS) 3.1? YAY!!! (BTW - that was WAY before Torvalds started coding Linux)

Yes that did predate Linus but, that's just the order of chronology. Not much he could have done about it.

MS DOS 3.1 - 1985
Torvalds starts coding Linux - 1991
C:\>_

Hmm, Lets see,

Multics - mid 1960's
UNIX - 1970
MS DOS 3.1 - 1985
Minix - 1987
Torvalds starts coding Linux - 1991

Slightly more unbiased

#_

 

[inlight12]

Command line? You mean like the MicroSoft Disk Operating System (aka MS DOS) 3.1? YAY!!! (BTW - that was WAY before Torvalds started coding Linux)

MS DOS 3.1 - 1985
Torvalds starts coding Linux - 1991

C:\>_

 

[MrJim]

I recently saw where Microsoft said Windows 10 would be that last OS they offer...afterwards would just be updates...gets me thinking now why they skipped 9 since....OS X is not "X" but 10 so we have Macintosh 10 and Windows 10...

 

[freezerman2000]

You should talk. Slagging off Windows is the Linux crowd's favourite hobby. They have never yet explained why Linux has got 2.5% of the desktop market, and Windows has got 95%; seeing as Linux is so great, and Windows costs money.

Oh, and by the way, although it is true that Linux has a larger share of the server market, as of April 2014, the lead was only 4.7%.

How many new computers come out of the box preloaded with anything BUT Windows?
THAT is how Microsoft keeps their O/S market numbers so high!

 

[freezerman2000]

I'm running only Ubuntu now..no Windows on my machine at all.
When I get a used machine,I have a clean copy(no bloatware)version of 7 for Microsoft games only...nothing else..no internet.

 

[Sketcher]

You should talk. Slagging off Windows is the Linux crowd's favourite hobby.

I prefer watching baseball, actually.

 

[melvinodsa]

Linux is free, Windows will put a hole in your pocket.

Linux has 1.25% of the desktop market, Windows has 95%.

Maybe the true believers should ask themselves how that makes sense, given that Linux is such a great system.

But things get reversed when it comes to the case of Server Market share. Also Super computers run Linux. This makes sense isn't it.

 

[Dave-W]

that nice Win 7/8/10 desktop look (probably) came from the Linux KDE Desktop project.

"Nice?" Far from it

The Win7 desktop looks mostly like the XP interface. But I would take the 8/10 interface as stealing from the ill-begotten Ubuntu Unity and Gnome 3 projects - IOW the "Fisher Price" interface that looks like it is designed for infants who cannot control their limbs yet. Remember those big colorful blocks that would spin mounted to the top of a walker?

 

[Dave-W]

Skipping ME because it was that bad?

Skipping ME because it was a parallel with 2000. One could also say (given the mention of 2000 and XP) that NT 3.5 and 4.0 were left off as well.