linux have SUPERPOWER

你永遠無法想像，即將到來的一個點子可以讓世界變得如此強壯

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[ZarathustraDK]

Installation in Windows :

1. find/purchase a cd with software.

2. Insert CD.

3. Install.

4. Pack away cd/delete install-file.

Installation in Ubuntu :

1. Start up Synaptic.

2. Choose what you want to install and click apply.

3. Close Synaptic.

Much less effort required in Ubuntu, not just in steps, but in time allocated to perform these steps.

[Axtred]

thats what she said!

sorry couldent resist

[seanhamson]

@Antiks72 but on the other hand i can do everything i want on linux so in essence it doesnt make windows better its just you know what you can do and how to do it so you stick with what you know. also just remember that linux powers far more than just servers, i.e. android, set top boxes, some new tvs as well as all most all of the worlds top 500 supercomputers.

[Hax0rPr0n]

My OPINION is this;

a) Linux used to be for hacking programs together. (Eg. Fedora)

b) Linux as it stands _now_ is for Internet Users. (Eg. Ubuntu)

c) Windows is stupid! Why bother with it!?

[Antiks72]

@MrClrg Yeah on the server side maybe. On the desktop, windows still reigns supreme despite all the progress linux has made. They've come a long way but there's just not point in using Linux since I can do everything I need on Windows anyway. Linux on the desktop is nerd fetishism at best.

[lin545]

@ninuxpdb I don´t get you, most of "dirty packages" are firmware which are needed to operate some devices. Devices, depending on specification, either load firmware themself (like amd ageisa) or need to load firmware by driver. If you need blob-free system, be aware that you also need completely open hardware, which is non-x86, for example dragon chip(loongson).

[lin545]

@MrClrg Not correct. 1st) there are binary releases of Gentoo: Calculate Linux, Funtoo. You get working complete desktop in under 10 minutes.

2nd) Recompiliation of whole full-blown desktop (~20gigs, lots of software) takes 8 hours on quadcore (athlon II x4, core2quad) total.

3nd) You dont have to compile everything to get usable environiment. If you go stage3 way, you only need kernel and xorg to start working. Major stuff is precomplied and can be complied in background as you go.

[MrClrg]

@Antiks72 On the topic of market share: Only 35 % of web servers run Windows, the rest of them either runs a flavour of Unix or Linux. Usually Linux. Now by that market share, Linux boxes must get countless attacks. And they do.

[MrClrg]

@lin545 Except that with Gentoo, you need to compile software for two days until you have an usable desktop environment.

[MrClrg]

@ljscott1990 Try Ubuntu, Firefox is Default there.

[MrClrg]

@ljscott1990 gzip -dc program.tar.gz | tar xvfp - && cd to_extracted_folder && ./configure && make && sudo make install (that's it)

[TopVersnelling]

@ZarathustraDK or just sudo apt-get install [prog. name] :D