Comments on: Truth Happens

By: NoobixCube

NoobixCube — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:11:26 +0000

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.

By: NoobixCube

NoobixCube — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:11:26 +0000

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.

By: CCmachine

CCmachine — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:11:26 +0000

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.

By: CCmachine

CCmachine — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:11:26 +0000

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)

By: KI4NAC

KI4NAC — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:11:26 +0000

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By: Lion117

Lion117 — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:11:26 +0000

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By: freakcoda

freakcoda — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:11:26 +0000

The video is powerfull, the main idea could be applied to many things.

By: AFOH

AFOH — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:11:26 +0000

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.

By: AFOH

AFOH — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:11:26 +0000

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?

By: AFOH

AFOH — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:11:26 +0000

For newbies there is Ubuntu. Fedora also works for non-experienced users, actually. It has many simplified features.