Re: XP is garbage

In <115no5d8pcccf27@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, on 04/12/05
at 02:52 PM, Guy Macon <http://www.guymacon.com> said:




>Frank Bemelman wrote:

>>That's not the Chris that I know ;) But I agree totally. Linux
>>(+ apps) grows bigger and bigger, becomes the same 'bloatware'
>>as windows is.

>Try Slackware. It runs great on 32MB of RAM and 520MB of hard disk. Use
>Icewm instead of Gnome or KDE, or simply stay on the command line. Use
>Links or w3m for your browser. Then come back and tell me whether Linux
>is as bloated as Windows.

Linux is as bloated as windwoes. The latest versions of Slackware barely
run on my P166 128M laptop.

Using a crappy, cheapo desktop that you have to modify with a text editor
is stupid and totally unproductive. Of course it will be leaner and a bit
quicker, but its also totally unusable to all but the most hardcore users.

If Windows had ugly, stripped down desktops that were as nonfunctional
and impossible to work with as IceWM to replace its dopey interface, it
would scream as well as anything out there.

I have been wanting to see linux run anywhere as near as quick and nimble
as Windows or any of my OS/2 installations on the same hardware, and it
has yet to happen. I have spent too much time with hdparms, setting up all
kinds of switches, turning off services, and recompiling kenels. It helps
a little, but I have never seen linux run appear as fast as OS/2, or even
windows2K on equal hardware. In the scheme of life, if you spend fifty
hours tweaking a linux distro, and it doesn't run a whole lot faster than
windwoes, its a waste of time. Especially when you get to do it all over
again when the next revision comes out and obsoletes half of the apps you
have downloaded.

I like the idea of linux, I think it had the potential to take a bite out
of redmond, but the inability of the community to listen to other users
without going off the deep end as if they had been slapped upside the head
has caused irreversible damage, and contributed to the bad reputation, and
the splintering of the whole package.

When someone completely buries the underpinnings, and creates a user
interface that is logical, useful, fairly customizable, and applications
become pretty much universal, and when the community gets over itself, and
begins to name archive files something useful and recognizable, so that
anyone can tell what is going on, and when it can be run from the desktop
without having to go under the hood, Linux will jump back into the
mainstream consideration. Even after all these years of anticipation, it
is still just a hackers OS. For those who bother to hammer on it, and
tweak and tune, I certainly admit it is a wonderful environment. I spent
over twenty years hacking on OS's and had a great time. Now I need to be
productive. Linux doesn't make me productive. How many different partition
managers multimedia players, and text editors do we really need?

JB





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