Comments on: It’s official: I don’t do Windows

By: The Doctor

The Doctor — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 01:39:47 +0000

“I thought you were a geek” … yeah, I’ve had that… I just shoot back “I’m sorry, it’s been awhile since I worked with primitive OS’.”

If you have the hard drive capacity to spare though, there’s no reason to not have a few VM’s installed to support “our poor cousins.” (heh!)

By: twitter

twitter — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 03:00:58 +0000

I left Windows98, it was just not worth the trouble of keeping up. I moved from DOS to Win 3.1 to 95 to 98 and that was the end of the line for me. Each arbitrary changes at each level wrecked any customizations I made and erased hours of effort and learning. Each version brought more of these and more annoyances. I have used NT, W2K and XP at work but only when I had no choice and I quit making changes to these system five years ago. I treat it like the dumbest of terminals. The less of it I know, the happier I am. Now there’s XP, Vista and Vista 7, each with radically different but equally annoying ways to do the same things. Why anyone bothers to learn these things when they could just get gnu/linux is an unsolvable mystery.

When I want to get some real work done, I pop out my laptop with Debian. When someone wants to know how to do things, that’s what I show them. The programs, features and organization I have in GNU/Linux land are simply not available on Windows. These tools and Debian’s easy upgrade system have saved me all sorts of effort.

Windows use is a fight that never ends. Tell your friends, your family and your boss to dump it.

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Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:46:32 +0000

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By: Debianero Rumbero

Debianero Rumbero — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 02:35:07 +0000

It's time to get rid of windows.

By: Ron

Ron — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 22:49:53 +0000

I feel very much the same way, I feel very much out of my depth when using any form of windows. But for the most part I really dont care that I cant use windows from a practical point anymore

By: Shae

Shae — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 17:07:44 +0000

I too find myself further from just knowing how to do things in Windows. I have spent most of my time with XP, but I did dabble in Vista to try it out and though I liked it more than XP, I missed what I could do in Linux. Plus almost all the games I want to play are either Linux native or work well in wine so I am not having that problem at least. I hope the only thing that might change this is if there are initial problems with Diablo 3 or Starcraft 2.

I usually do have to research any issue beyond the standard bug removal measures for Windows. But I think having to look stuff up is not that bad.

By: mckinnon81

mckinnon81 — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 14:55:17 +0000

I am starting to take this plunge and move away from windows. I tried before but always went back because of gaming, but Linux has made leaps and bounds in this area so trying again wasn’t a hard choice to make.

I am seemingly stuck in both worlds, IT Worker in Windows world trying to use Linux (at home and at work)

I have found Windows users set in their ways, “old school” and has to be done a certain way. Where are Linux users, as a quote says; “All roads lead to Rome”, Many different ways to do this but you still get the same result. Just do what you feel is comfortable for you.

Try applying that to a windows users or action. Doesn’t always work….Hmm this looks like a good blog post. Off to post it, LOL