The OS wars are over

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Believe it or not, there are windows geeks who geek the fuck out at parties about windows.

Pics or it never happened.

[rygD]

I'm not quite such an old hand, myself. My first distro came with X. It's just that my video card wasn't supported.

Lindows has become Linspire, and is still around. Lindows (along with Xandros) is just one super-commercial end of the trend. On the other end you have Ubuntu, which is still largely geared towards windows users (along with Fedora and SuSe, both of which are fighting to gain back their position as distro of choice for people who were using windows last thursday). To a certain extent, 'linux for the desktop' has been a large chunk of distros for quite some time -- Red Hat and Mandrake were both edging for that position when I first started, and KDE was apparently explicitly designed to look like windows 3.x in the pre-1.0 phases. That said, it's been long enough that I don't need a windows-y gui to get things done. As long as the people who can't use windows don't start replacing windows with linux, I can reasonably dodge when friends and family ask me for help with trivial problems. If they figure out that using linux is no more difficult and far cheaper, then I'm stuck solving the same problems as I'm asked about by windows users about windows.

I missed this earlier.  KDE is so pretty now.  I fucking love it.  I was never really into widgets, but I don't mind using them now.

[rygD]

Believe it or not, there are windows geeks who geek the fuck out at parties about windows. Several of them work at Microsoft and wrote the Unix Hater's Handbook.

rygD, have you tried Plan 9? A while back I went and tried a bunch of different OSes; Plan 9 was pretty neat. I have OpenSolaris 9, but it tends not to work properly on non-sun hardware -- it worked great when I used it on a SPARC (not mine), but it hashed my disk and refused to install on a reasonably standard intel machine.

I think I tried Plan 9.  I think the only way I half assed got it to work was as a virtual machine, and I started to get irritated by how many issues I was having.  What hardware works best with it?

I really wanted a SPARC.  I remember my first encounter with them.  I walked into a lab full of them,not sure what kind, and they were tiny.  I remember thinking that the way the lab was set up was fucking cool, and how the computers looked bad ass.  Then someone told me they had an issue with them sometimes overheating and smoking or catching on fire.  That just made me want to try to push them to their limits.

[rygD]

Wow, that was almost 10 years ago.  I am getting old.

[Rococo Modem Basilisk]

Believe it or not, there are windows geeks who geek the fuck out at parties about windows.

Pics or it never happened.

[Bu🤠ns]

I use windows for the programs, Linux for administration and Mac on a laptop.....

I love Linux and wish it had the gaming flexibility as windows, I love windows and wish i had the stability and security as linux,

i love macs but wish i didn't have to cough up tons of $$ when in order to keep the piece of shit up to date.

You are playing the wrong games...

meh, i like a wide selection....my point is that each os has benefits

Really...Windows has benefits?

Yup, just like your mother, although, if you're not careful you might get a virus.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Believe it or not, there are windows geeks who geek the fuck out at parties about windows.

Pics or it never happened.

Who the fuck would invite those neckbeards to a party?

[Rococo Modem Basilisk]

Believe it or not, there are windows geeks who geek the fuck out at parties about windows.

Pics or it never happened.

Who the fuck would invite those neckbeards to a party?

Other neckbeards.

[P3nT4gR4m]

Windows - Bloated, feature rich, garbage that does fucking everything, including crashing all over the place

Linux - Lite garbage that does next to fuck all, reasonably efficiently

Mac - Expensive, gold plated garbage that costs at least 40 times what it's worth. Don't look at the price of comparably specced equipment just look at the cute little lowercase 'i' on the logo - only the big bucks can get that awesome lowercase 'i'

You argue the merits of any of these pieces of shit with me and I'll just pick one of the others and argue against you for shits and giggles. 

[KopyKat253]

Windows - Bloated, feature rich, garbage that does fucking everything, including crashing all over the place

Linux - Lite garbage that does next to fuck all, reasonably efficiently

Mac - Expensive, gold plated garbage that costs at least 40 times what it's worth. Don't look at the price of comparably specced equipment just look at the cute little lowercase 'i' on the logo - only the big bucks can get that awesome lowercase 'i'

You argue the merits of any of these pieces of shit with me and I'll just pick one of the others and argue against you for shits and giggles. 

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Other neckbeards.

Neckbeards don't have parties.  They have "mutual food-stained shirt appreciation events".

[KopyKat253]

Other neckbeards.

Neckbeards don't have parties.  They have "mutual food-stained shirt appreciation events".

Your right roger, your allways right! we're never right and any thought that conflicts with your own has to be quashed. I'm sorry I ever found Discord on the internet...

[Cain]

wat

[Bu🤠ns]

wat

neckbeard itt?

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I'm sorry I ever found Discord on the internet...

Then leave.