Comments on: Compassion for Windows Users

By: Paul Johnson

Paul Johnson — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:19:42 +0000

thedarkknight: Oh grow up. Windows has it’s CLI and it’s often just as necessary to use it as it is in Linux these days. CLIs are a bit more howto friendly because you don’t have to subjectively describe a user interface, and it ages better because commands change less often than UI widgets do. Plus you don’t have to assume someone is using a specific widget set then…

Even Windows users were knocking the inability to get to a command line in MacOS… and then Apple bought out NeXT and started using /that/ for their OS…

The command line isn’t going away any time soon, on any platform. Even Microsoft accepts that.

By: mcinsand

mcinsand — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:27:03 +0000

etbe, why did you softpeddle your windows fanboy bash? a more accurate slam would be:

If I was going to bash Windows users then I would suggest that they all lack knowledge of how a modern operating system works. ;)

Seriously, what idiot would integrate the web browser, GUI, and OS together? And, I don’t know of a single Windows user (and I know a lot) that doesn’t complain about constant crashes, constantly degrading performance, and lack of dependability.

By: etbe

etbe — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:21:28 +0000

thedarkknight: Thanks for the windows fanboy perspective. For reference dropping to a CLI is not necessary for typical Linux desktop use, and sound and USB mass storage access doesn’t require any special effort (it usually works with a default install).

If I was going to bash Windows users then I would suggest that they all lack knowledge of how a modern Linux system works. ;)

By: thedarkknight

thedarkknight — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:17:12 +0000

complete fanboy rubish. if someone uses windows and gets work done, which I witness everyday then why bash them? grow up, and as linux matures as a desktop platform it will get looked at, but as long as dropping to a CLI is a neccesity, and jumping through hoops to get sound and your ipod working it will remain a niche O/S at best.

By: Russell about compassion for Windows Users at wolfgang.lonien.de

Russell about compassion for Windows Users at wolfgang.lonien.de — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:55:05 +0000

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By: Paul Johnson

Paul Johnson — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:34:26 +0000

etbe: You’d really be pleasantly surprised, then. Just as a test, I removed all my wine prefixes and started from scratch with 1.1. I didn’t have to do anything fancy to get everything working. So far, the only bugs I’ve come across is a minor visual glitch in TF2 and voice input doesn’t want to work with my Plantronics USB headset in Steam.

Even programs like Auran Trainz that used to be a real bitch to get working in Wine are just as easy to get working as Windows (possibly easier if you have two games that normally conflict, since you can just install both in their own wineprefix and they’ll never even know the other exists).