Microsoft announces Vista prices, specs (or, Wake up you dozy W******! pt. 2)

The Alchemist on 12/9/2006 at 17:54

Tedious Linux rant follows.

Linux menz. Linux is for people who have too much free time. DOWN WITH MICRO$OFT. Don't give me any shit, I was the goddamn definition of Linux zealot no less than 3 or 4 years ago, then I got tired of dicking around with my computer all day. Lol Linux duz wut Winblowz duz but 4 free and faster. More like Linux sorta manages to get some shit to work in an 80 to 90% way, and thats after you spent half your goddamn day recompiling your source while your girlfriend was being fucked by the pool cleaner at her moms house. And now it's worse, because the whole fun of Linux was getting shit to work (back when I gave a shit about computers/programming), now Ubuntu is about as easy as Windows is what with graphical apt-get and what not. Linux has its place, but the consumer desktop universe (ie: gaming and everything else fun you could do on your computer) is run by closed source code and mainstream standards, of which Linux is neither. Good luck etting a quarter of streaming video sites to work on a Linux box, most of them use Quicktime or some MS codec, both of which you can get to work in Linux at about 80% functionality. You can run some native games, but good luck getting shaders to work. You can run them via an emulator or non-emulator whatever the wank you want to call it, but I hope you enjoy tenfold the amount of glitches, crappy performance, and crashes that you would get if you just fucking ran it in Windows. Good luck getting any actual work done in an office with open source word processors when a coworker wants you to open some excel document that does something your software just doesnt like. It's the same situation with everything. Aim? Sure, Linux has aim clients, Gaim is great. But hope you dont intend on direct connecting with your buddy to receive those naked pix of Anetta Keys (hotness), it tends to crash. Oh, and have fun getting your audio to play sound from more than one program at a time, unless you use a sound deamon, which tend to be sluggish. ALSA's gone a long way though, I bet. And my soundcard was never that good, but it's truth none the less.

Anyways, the point of this rant is that unless you just seriously like dicking around with Linux and wanking to your leet lack of Micro$oftness, there's really no point to run it at home or at work. I havent gone from angry linux nerd to angry windows nerd, I'm just hoping to shed some light on all that shit. And dont bother with the whole lol hope u enjoy virus's shit cause I've gotten maybe one virus my entire life in Windows. If you spent a fraction of the effort you would spend getting shit to work in linux on properly "babysitting" a windows box you'd get a system just as stable and secure. And dont bother telling me I just didnt know how to get something to work, believe me, my linux dick is bigger than yours.

Carry on.

What have I done....I've created a moooooooooonster. I apologize.

Bulgarian_Taffer on 12/9/2006 at 18:12

Tedious Windows rants follows:

.......well...i was playing DS, about to join a game on multiplayer, when all of a sudden....the screen went black and went back to my desktop, and the dreaded 'send error report' came up on my screen. Wtf?. so i clicked send. Then (surprise suprise) all my icons and my start bar dissapeared. I couldnt shut down properly...so i pressed the restart button on my comp............
.............can't get a thing done because of this idiotic Windows 2000 piece of crap. What the hell kind of moron designs a decision box with the words yes, no, cancel? I thought the esc button was designed for that. If you want to know what a life wasted is, go see the Wikepedia description for Bill Gates and be thankful you are not one of his bitches anymore. OSX rocks and Windows is the virus that will never touch it............
....Of all MS shit, at least this one seems a little bit more stable and that's too much to say. The dreaded thig updates every 30 fucking minutes to patch the nastiests security holes in the nastiest software ingenering piece ever built. Go back to the caves micro*oft fukers! where you belong. Every time I bootup I suffer, every time I see the fucking logo I suffer, every time I see the reversed menu bar I suffer. Enogh suffering! Debian linux turned the piece of shit HP that used to host the Mac knockoof into a more stable and powerful machine......
....I fucken hate this shitty Operating system, I hate Internet Exploder that crashes every 10 fucken minutes,and slower than the tetonic plates moving....
....Windows is, always was and continues to be a fucking piece of shit. Why do corporations use it? Its insecure, unerliable, and expensive. I have to support Windows Server 2003 @ work and it is the biggest piece of shit I have ever worked on! How about some help! Microsoft's help articles are unhelpful, unaccurate and incomplete. Bottom line Windows sucks.....

Renzatic on 12/9/2006 at 18:43

Linux is kinda....eh. It's fun for people who want to grope around the basement levels of their computer simply for the sake of groping around. But if you want to use your computer for anything beyond building a server and playing with a handful of equal-alternative apps, Windows and OSX offer you far more and puts up less of a fight doing it.

I've used Linux before, I think it was an old Redhad distro a couple years back. It was fun for the first little while, but when I realised I spent 4 hours learning how to compile crap just so I could install a basic media player, I went running back to Windows.

To me, the whole point of an OS should be it's ease of use and efficiency. Granted, Linux can be very efficient...if you know what you're doing. But once you spend the time learning the ins and outs of everything, you have to spend hours configuring programs that'd take but a click to execute in Windows. So other than the pride in knowing that "WOO! I'M USING LINUX"...what's the point?

Stitch on 12/9/2006 at 19:04

Quote Posted by Bulgarian_Taffer

Go back to the caves micro*oft fukers! where you belong. Every time I bootup I suffer, every time I see the fucking logo I suffer, every time I see the reversed menu bar I suffer. Enogh suffering!

yeah what the hell more like osama bill laden :mad:

Bulgarian_Taffer on 12/9/2006 at 19:07

Quote Posted by Renzatic

I've used Linux before, I think it was an old Redhad distro a couple years back. It was fun for the first little while, but when I realised I spent 4 hours learning how to compile crap just so I could install a basic media player, I went running back to Windows.

That's a mistake. I rarely compile, I prefer dl/ing binaries.
Now I've got Debian linux, just type ... apt-get install packet , it downloads the packet binaries from internet ( or CD sources ), installs ... and ... it's ready! And it takes less than 10 minutes for small packets..
as for media players, I have no problems. I have Kaffeine, mplayer, realplayer, quicktime.