Comments on: The wrong reasons to use Linux http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/07/22/the-wrong-reasons-to-use-linux/ K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiences Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Lookalike Windows XP Classic « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/07/22/the-wrong-reasons-to-use-linux/#comment-44832 Sun, 15 Aug 2010 11:49:43 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/07/22/the-wrong-reasons-to-use-linux/#comment-44832 [...] I do not suggest using this as a trick to push someone into using Linux. Convert through desire, not through subterfuge, friends. [...]

]]> By: No-name http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/07/22/the-wrong-reasons-to-use-linux/#comment-43170 Wed, 12 May 2010 21:49:44 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/07/22/the-wrong-reasons-to-use-linux/#comment-43170 Linux is diffidently THE BEST. It just is:
1. A hugely enormous library of FREE software, (windows has the most (expensive) software)
2. Reason 2 in the post is wrong, it is a great reason to use linux (this the reason I started and I will never go back to widows). Linux is and will always be faster than windows.
3. Windows has false information in support and comparing see: http://www.bablotech.com/2009/09/19/15-blog-posts-in-which-authors-hate-linux/ (this is in the list [it's how I found it] and http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS8124627492.html and http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/compare/default.mspx
4. Simply it’s expensive and hard to update. Unlike this picture: http://www.bablotech.com/2009/09/08/microsoft-says-windows-7-is-better-than-linux/ also it doesn’t support older versions of windows see en.windows7sins.org/
5. Package Manager, it is easy (I mean super duper easy) to install things in linux
6. Many software update managers (for example windows updater, adobe updater, google updater and no-updater[that means you have to do it manually]
7. How could you do that, insulting my favorite os!
8. Windows has expensive support
9. Super easy to install linux, download iso, burn iso to usb or cd, boot iso, push install icon(with most major distros) set up some things and finished!
10. It is FREE!

The only thing that is true in windows ads is: More software and drivers (most proprietary and expensive)

]]> By: dave http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/07/22/the-wrong-reasons-to-use-linux/#comment-41793 Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:44:32 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/07/22/the-wrong-reasons-to-use-linux/#comment-41793 I switched to Linux because I saw another line being drawn in the sand, in aftermath of the post-XP, vista debacle.. I realized I was no longer buying cutting edge games (the only REAL reason to upgrade from XP.. how lame) and that I could use Gimp instead of Photoshop. When I realized how easy it is to control the appearance of the desktop in Gnome, I was sold.

That said, I have made attempts to ‘switch’ in the past, which failed.. but every time I try, less and less calls me back to Windows. This time feels much different – I left Windows in a huff, eager to be liberated. I should note that I do still ache for Photoshop now and again.

Good, truthful article.

]]> By: Pedro http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/07/22/the-wrong-reasons-to-use-linux/#comment-40004 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:40:53 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/07/22/the-wrong-reasons-to-use-linux/#comment-40004 There is one thing that Linux takes Windows in speed for sure. Install the OS, keep it for 2 months, then Linux will still boots up taking the same amount of time it took in the beginning, Windows on the other hand.. well lets say that if it’s an older computer you might consider go drink a coffee :P . Windows also feel faster at the beginning because it comes it almost nothing! Once you install your common applications that’s when it starts to slow downnnn. Linux distros like Ubuntu and Fedora on the other hand come with almost everything a regular user needs ( PDF reader, Office, Firefox, Gimp, etc ) and you can keep installing stuff that you will notice almost no slowdown. Yes, although firefox is slower on Linux, it’s getting better. ( I know that this isn’t the purpose of this discussion, but if you are after speed and complain about firefox under linux, check this out : http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1120475 -> Run Firefox on a RAM partition, way faster! )

]]> By: Xew http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/07/22/the-wrong-reasons-to-use-linux/#comment-40002 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:08:42 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/07/22/the-wrong-reasons-to-use-linux/#comment-40002 Haha! I will admit that Compiz is originally the reason I switched. But gradually I dug deeper into true Linux learning and farther away from Compiz.

]]> By: vexorian http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/07/22/the-wrong-reasons-to-use-linux/#comment-39955 Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:16:50 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/07/22/the-wrong-reasons-to-use-linux/#comment-39955 Speed is definitely a reason. And I am talking about Fedora and ubuntu. I am not sure what exactly happened, but the newer versions just got very fast.

This is a 6 years old computer, it can not only run 9.04 fine. It runs it fine with metacity compositing and it is much faster than the windows XP set up in the same computer. If you consider that vista, and not XP is the competitor for these recent releases, then yeah, speed is a huge reason for Linux.

In more extreme scenarios like netbooks, the main difference between Ubuntu netbook remix and windows XP is that one can actually have a responsive interface. I got people interested in UNR after seeing how my netbook, even though was a year older model seemed snapier than their ones in which windows XP was forced…

]]> By: Links 23/07/2009: Sony Ericsson Dumps Windows for Linux, US Free Software Coalition Formed | Boycott Novell http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/07/22/the-wrong-reasons-to-use-linux/#comment-39951 Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:31:06 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/07/22/the-wrong-reasons-to-use-linux/#comment-39951 [...] The wrong reasons to use Linux 1. Compiz. You might read that and feel like you just got hit in the face with a glass of cold water. After all, Compiz is way cool. It’s smooth, clever, innovative, years ahead of the competition and best of all, free-as-in-beer. What’s to dislike? [...]

]]> By: road http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/07/22/the-wrong-reasons-to-use-linux/#comment-39942 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:14:31 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/07/22/the-wrong-reasons-to-use-linux/#comment-39942 great post. i tried Ubuntu after reading blogs like this one and was appalled to find that it was, in fact, slower for many things (startup, firefox, flash, etc). i still haven’t switched over to Linux for desktop use yet, but I grow to appreciate it as a server OS more and more every day. i think it is important not to over-hype linux. it’s fantastically great for certain things, but as you pointed out, if you mis-represent it as a Windows/OSX replacement it can have a bad result when people try it. the evangelism of the linux community can be counter-productive sometimes. there’s no reason Windows/OSX/chrome/ubuntu/whatever can’t co-exist peacefully — they don’t always have to be “competing”.

]]> By: scott http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/07/22/the-wrong-reasons-to-use-linux/#comment-39941 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:39:50 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/07/22/the-wrong-reasons-to-use-linux/#comment-39941 I like the speed comment, it can run faster, if you know what you are doing, and you can be more productive, if you know what you are doing, and i mean using the console commands and programs ;)

compiz is a sick feature linux has, when i first saw the 3d cube it was very impressive. They keep adding cool things to it so i can easily see why it would get people to change over.

w0w on linux i hear is becoming easier to do, but then again if you are a windows gamer but hate windows, you should stay with windows or just make it dual boot and linux being your primary.

Good points. ;)

]]> By: Kaleb Elwert http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/07/22/the-wrong-reasons-to-use-linux/#comment-39938 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:29:43 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/07/22/the-wrong-reasons-to-use-linux/#comment-39938 Yeah, I’ll have to agree with that.

However, now I’m running Gentoo, compiling all my packages, and starting my own overlay… I’ve gone a long way.

I’m not even using X, but that’s mostly because I didn’t want to deal with the compile time. Haha.

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