Truth Happens
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A video produced by the Linux company RedHat … redhat linux truth happens
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Where Linux fails in marketshare?
Everywhere except: large enough corporate computer usage, where it’s possible for “user” & “admin” to be as different persons & for the first of them to call that second & rely on his specific knowledge if problems appear (& they do!).
Elsewhere I’m personally a long-term witness of new computer buyers totally throwing out preinstalled “free” Linux off their macines & installing windoze.
I don’t know personally of ANY of such person to keep & use Linux.
Exactly where does linux fall in “marketshare”? Is that even a relevant question for Linux? How many Linux users bought a copy of Linux? And when they did, how many of those counted as a minus one for Windows? Every copy of Windows ever sold is counted in market share, but there’s no reliable way to count every copy of Linux ever installed, or count how many of those installs fully replaced Windows. People who claim that Windows has a 99.9% market share piss me off no end.
I’d call myself an experienced Linux user, but I’m not really in the hard core category – for one, I have never had an inclination to install Gentoo, Arch or Slackware, and probably never will – When I first started using Linux, I thrived on forum posts and how-to articles, and all of them gave me terminal commands. I’m not so bad with the terminal now (DOS was mother’s milk to me), but I find that I just don’t need it for anything. Everything I (and most) do can be done with GUI tools.
talking about advanced functions of course, in a recent distro like Ubuntu you can pretty much do and configure anything an end user would want in the Preferences tools.
this is something Windows users just fail to understand.
the terminal is powerful. why should we waste time creating GUI tools for every function? i personally like being able to ctrl+alt+f1 and kill and restart the GUI if its frozen as opposed to restarting the whole machine… (happens occasionally)
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Come here i want you..!
The video is powerfull, the main idea could be applied to many things.
For many users the GUI is the OS. Especially for those who haven’t ever got to know something different than Windows or Mac OS X.
I can’t imagine a fully functioning Linux distro without a shell yet, but it is possible, but just not a priority. I believe in the future, Linux users won’t need to get to the terminal, ever, as many of the old tasks now are graphical, but the shell will always come with GNU/Linux. By the way, GNU/Linux is user friendly nowadays, but it’s just not its strong feature.
OS marketshare? Fine if you care about the market. Windows dominates, then goes Mac OS X and after them, there are many more, the next one is Linux. Microsoft may have the most share of the market, but not the best product.
Linux’s advantages are not myths.
If you want to customize a Linux distribution you can, you have no limitations, even the kernel can you modify. If you want to customize a Windows version, you’ll be able to change only what Microsoft wants you to. Got the source code for it?
For newbies there is Ubuntu. Fedora also works for non-experienced users, actually. It has many simplified features.
Ok, lets leave alone poor uncle Einstein – there are enough examples today around us.
(see what this guy told from 0:55 to 2:00 here: /-w-a-t-c-h-?-v-=-n-K-7-T-Q-V-F-S-A-1-Y )
Throw out your pink glasses & search Google for “OS marketshare”.
I’ve not just read a lot about those “Linux advantages” – after this I’ve tried many major Linux distros with promised by these myths hope to replace windoze.
In my work area many things are TOTALLY customizable & so on for me, but not for others.
I’ve tried Fedora too – this has ended with rants at their forums, some folks even promised to kill me (it was just another myth – as you see I’m still alive).
Just one honest man sent me a PM & told:
“…Fedora is primarily a redhat test OS. It runs very close to the development cycle. As such it has alot of new features and bugs. Not a distro you would want to start with as a linux newbie…
…Fedora is aimed at experienced users, regardless of whatever propaganda you may have read.”
Yes, that’s what I’m talking about & getting marked here as spammer – the shell managed by a command line still is as you’ve just said a “key piece” in Linux.
But as one clever man has said at SkyOS forums: “… for user GUI is OS”, so from this end user point of view, that Linux feature is wrong.
And because of Linux nature that you’ve just explained seems like it will always be like this.
In deep Linux isn’t anyhow user friendly – so called “user friendliness” is just another Linux myth.
First, GNU/Linux has always relied on a command-line, because it didn’t start aiming to the desktop user, but aiming for power and administration of resources. Then came the desktop environment, a little late, but it didn’t arrive as a replacement for the shell, it is an addition to the system. Nowadays, dependence on the shell has been greatly reduced, but still it is a key piece of software that people use to get a proper functioning of the system.
Stop trying to pseudoquote Einstein, he’s dead and has nothing to do with this, it is impossible to know what would he think, and it is irrelevant. I admit GNU/Linux is less user-friendly than Windows, say, for example, in case of a hardware error. Still, problems CAN be solved with the current means available. The advantages of GNU/Linux, anyway, are many. It is TOTALLY customizable, more powerful, resource-saving, fast, secure and organized. Google “Why Linux is better”.
Nobody is lying. I use Linux, and it is really resource-saving, and you are calling that a lie. I use Fedora Core 8 with KDE, and I usually run up to 15 applications at the same time. These are my important applications, and in Windows I used to have programs that did the same things, BUT, the operating system, in the same computer, couldn’t load so many without slowing down or crashing. That is the power of Linux. Truth happens. And what you say, just a flatfish comment, turns out to be a lie.
This video is glorious!
All these different operating systems working on the same hardware is the same as achieving a message in a different language from the same mind. Ubuntu is now bigger than Jesus. Google that!
“blame adobe.” – yes, I know, but because of this Linux can’t be presented as a full featured alternative to windoze, what linux fans are actually (& very loudly!) doing, creating that way a lying myth.
“Flash is bloatware. We need an open alternative.” – this “open alternative” already exists, it’s called Gnash & was presented even as default in Ubuntu when I’ve tried it, while still being in almost not-workable alpha state!
Shame!
Even evil Uncle Bill & his MS-gang don’t do such a shit!
blame adobe.
Flash is bloatware. We need an open alternative.
Bullshit.
I’ve tested it myself, so I know it isn’t so.
When I tried to google for some solution of that Linux flash problem it appeared that many other people have the same result as me & as usually for Linux – without any fix.
Many forums with questions asked – no answers.
Watch 2 youtube videos?
I can do it in windoze on my P4-1.4GHz with full taskbar of open applications.
To get the same shit-result as in Linux I must watch not less than 5 youtube videos simultaneously in windoze.
Because it’s lying.
That’s what I want to point to, not to force other people back to windoze.
I’ve tested it myself for a few months, so I know what I’m talking about.
The fact that some people have good (as they think) results on Linux doesn’t deny the problems many others have.
When you’re creating your own Linux-myths, don’t forget that differently to your home pages & forums there always will be other places where the TRUTH will have equal chances to HAPPEN, despite all your arrogance.
I’m on a 1.8GHz AMD Sempron, and watch to Flash videos while having fifteen other tabs open, along with an IRC client, OpenOffice, an IDE (for programming), Kopete, and other windows open while using Compiz Fusion and Kiba-Dock on a customized KDE desktop.
I even remember this one time where I was watching TWO Flash videos…while playing these two 3-D FPS games and a 3-D MMORPG. Well, maybe not quite, but Winblow$ chokes when running more than a few simple applications.
RVRSS, if you don’t like Linux, don’t use it. And stop trying to bully other people into using Windows.
And as others have said, why the hell would you watch a Linux commercial if you hate it so much?