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Whoa! Before you flame me, at least read what I have to say.

I'm a fan of Linux and I like it. It is nice but it is a pain in the ass. It takes hours to do what Mac and Windows take minutes to do. Sure, once you figure it out (if you ever do) it runs until there is some update or some configuration change and bam! return to start. This vicious cycle always continues from release to release. It makes me say "wtf" more often than not. If Mac would run on my Intel, I'd buy it. It Windows didn't run at the speed of snot, I'd use it. So here I am stuck with this hard ass OS with the question on my mind "Is Linux really that great"?

[marwex89]

No, it's not that great, but it is great. It's good and nerdy, and be happy with that :P Even programmers can't have everything.. :(

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But shouldn't we? Why do we produce crap? Can't we make something better that has the good of all three?

[marwex89]

Man, you got to leave something for heaven...

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I hope heaven is running on the ****ty OSes we have available. If it does, we will crash randomly on Windows, no one can figure out how to accept new souls in Linux and Mac would only be for the really rich.

[marwex89]

Ever thought about making your own OS?

[Showstopper]

I prefer linux over all. Once you learn it, you will find that its just as easy as the rest.

[WingedPanther]

I have yet to find something in Linux that takes more time than Windows. There are some things I have to do some research on, but I've yet to see something slower.

[XStatik]

I used linux for a good year or so and I thought it was alright for the most part. The greatest feature it has is that if you want anything you just go to the same spot everytime and there you go there's everything you could possibly want. Wherea's on windows and mac you have to go out and google search everything you want, then manually download and install it. Most linux programs are in the main repo, but some others do also have to be unpacked and installed. Setting things up as far as hardware went was the biggest issue that I really encountered. Not all devices and hardware are supported, but for the most part most of them are. Linux also comes with a large community of people that all support each other which is also a benifit. Its all about what you want to use your computer for in the end, and what you actually need to do it. New users to linux sometimes run into making real simple problems almost impossible tasks to carry out. Just choose a mainstream distro and play around with it for awhile, you'll get the jist of it eventually.

[John]

I am a strong advocate of Linux, but I recently installed Kubuntu 9.04 which used more memory than Vista. That pissed me off so I am now running Windows 7 - the first version of Windows I'm actually partially impressed with.

[XStatik]

How do you like Windows 7? To me Microsoft died after XP, but who knows, I could be wrong. Windows 7 is basically like a MAC isnt it? Also is it backwards compatible?