Warning: Desktop Linux is like sniffing glue. Or something.

LOVE IT!

I am what you might call a rainy-day Linux user. Every few months, my windows decides to crash without the option to recover, so I wind up loading the latest version of whatever Linux I can get from the magazine rack.

I like it because it is now a lot easier to load, not requiring all of the kernal compliling or manual hardware setup as before. It also gives me the sense that I’m “stickin’ it to the Borg” for a few weeks. Then I miss all of the apps that I had under windows, and eventually wipe the drive and start with a fresh re-load of windows until the next disaster.

It’s a nice distraction, but not that practical. While I won’t condemn it like some, I won’t praise it as the ‘Almighty Obama’ of operating systems either.

It’s an option, but moving to Linux to spite the Borg and/or Apple is kinda like going to a world hunger concert: You have a great time, and you feel better about yourself, but what does it really do to help the cause?

I gave up on Linux last year. Even the “easy to use” versions like Ubuntu require days of alternated coaxing and fighting to get working. Then a system update gets downloaded, breaks it, and the cycle begins over.

You know, it’s been fifteen years since Linux suggested that it would make the world a better place and offer a usable alternative to Window and the Mac, but Linux has constantly failed to deliver.

Even on known hardware platforms, like the PS3, it’s broken out of the box. Freetards, you’re idealists who are wasting your time, and a lot of other people’s time as well — such as mine.

Linux is not for the consumer. If consumers could figure out linux, we’d have fricken flying cars by now.

i ❤ xkcd!!

I dunno, I slapped Ubuntu on a laptop in 20 minutes while I was waiting for my oil to get changed. Sure boots up faster than any Windows option.