Why Linux is better

"Sounds like"

Sounds like you are guessing, my friend.

That's pure bullshit! I have Win 7 64 bit and when I click to shut down, IT FUCKING SHUTS ALLLL THE WAY DOWN.

yeah but i feel i have enough control in windows as it is,if you know how to use regedit,what services to safely disable,like superfetch,win search etc,and how to use cmd,for netsh int commands you can make windows incredibly stable and much faster.

Unlike Windows, hackers actually have access to the Linux source code! They're one step ahead of the game.

And take a look at how quickly the Linux kernel codebase is changing - the diff from 2.6.36 to 2.6.37 was over 66MB... There's no way anyone is auditing all that.

So please, go ahead and use Linux so you can be hacked.

Thats funny cause most of that works flawlessly under linux too. X3:TC Even has a port for linux. Most steam games install and run flawlessly (no not all). Sins & Sims both work fine.

I run both cause I'm an addicted gamer and yes sometimes games made for windows just won't run on linux, but most of them do with little to no tweaking.

Who the fuck cares what god you worship.

If it works for you good. If you're happy with Linux and its shortcomings great. If all you do is browse the internet and send a few emails, it probably has no shortcomings for you. I'm happy for you.

No it's a real Linux just has a lot of unused stuff removed. It doesn't use X11 but relies runs entirely on the frame buffer and the Andoid SDK for gui. I got mplayer to work on it by using the fbdev2 switch but never went so far as to decipher the sound driver which is probably one of the proprietary ones. All but a few drivers are open source and you can customize the hell out of your 'droid phone. You can put a debian image on it, mount it on loopback and chroot into it to run any non-X11 debian app like openssh-server, apache2, etc.. You can do X11 apps too if you run a vnc server for your Xdesktop and connect to it with Android' vnc client.

See, it's contradictions like this that show how dysfunctional people can be. I blame the lack of critical thinking skills being taught in public education.

Poster your ignorance is blatantly obvious. And don't bother insulting me I'm an AC, I don't have an ego to offend.

"Thing is, I use Linux a lot in my work, and it gives me much greater control over my environment that windows or Macs could ever hope to achieve."

I use both. They have more in common than not. All the UNIX stuff you use with linux are included (one way or another) with MAC OSX.

I have G5 file servers and Linux (RHEL 4.7) clients.

I use Windows 7. It's the best.

Poster your cluelessness is showing.
You do realize that 99.9% of the trojans/viruses/and malware circulating today are targeting your Windows OS?

Okay, so what happens to me EVERY DAY never happens. Wake up, troll.

LOL, who would want to target the .0001% of losers who use Linux, even though its trivial to exploit?

I have a Windows XP box, a G4 Ibook, an Arch Linux Laptop and a FreeBSD workstation.

The FreeBSD workstation is hands-down the best, never a single problem yet...and yes, it has a GUI, as many GUI options as any Linux has (I prefer Enlightenment and WindowMaker personally). Of course, it's not for beginners :)

Sorry for responding to posters so much OP. I'm not trying to take over your thread. ;)

I'm nearly a Linux professional although I know better than to call myself a guru. All hail Linus!

You have no clue how the hacking community thinks.

You don't release information on security holes when you find them.

With open source, the holes are found without the requirement for disclosure.

Keep feeling safe behind your closed source, it will be your downfall.

Would it surprise you that hotmail runs on unix as does the majority of Internet web servers. The only reason MS has the desktop market still is because of clueless users like you. Good job!

Fact: Open source allows faster fixes for exploits than closed source.

You know, we can have a three way pissing match about Linux, Windows, and MAC but if you want real fanatical cult action talk to the BSD guys.

Just rebooted to my Ubuntu partition.Been so long I forgot my password LOL Finally remembered Got 3 hours of updates to download and a new version to 10.04 Ain't gonna fool with it now maybe I'll just leave it running while I sleep.Do like this chrome browser I have on this though.

Last Edited by Kritic on 02/05/2011 02:32 PM

I had a Redhat server once with an uptime of 444 days. Yes that's no reboots in over a year. How many times do you have to reboot Windows in order to apply "updates" (aka exploit fixes)

I'll have whatever you're smoking if you actually think not having source code makes it easier to find vulns in software.

Lol...so true, though personally, I am a big fan of letting people choose whatever they want. I rarely recommend FreeBSD to anyone who isn't ready for a lot of learning. It's actually an extraordinarily simple system once you get past the learning stages. A better choice for new converts is Linux, as more things work "right out of the box" so to speak, whereas BSD means compiling in support most of the time.

LOL, you're telling me. Now they're intense! :D

this.

Look, read a book before attempting to evaluate software security.

thank you, i be sure i have OpenOffice on that laptop!
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just yesterday i was so frustrated with windows7 that I downloaded ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS (3 yrs updates!) 64bit and whiped the laptop completely except my ntfs data partition.

the difference is really amazing. I have a simple and nice GUI plus (!) all of the Unix powertools via the terminal, all my music,video,data and office files can be opened and if i click on a rare videofile that isn't supported ubuntu automatically offers to download some plugins and voila it plays all in the same player .

Right now i am surfing the web and recording silently internet-radio while also listening to other music, 8 different stations that go inside my music folder sorted by artist and stream.. In a few hours i have some gigs of legally aquired mp3s (rhythmbox internetradio plugin for ubu 10.04) ;-)

with firefox's video downloadhelper plugin i can download all the porn and youtube vids that are in flv or mp4 format, edit them in pitivi or openshot moviemaker, add effects or plainly play them for offline usage in totem..

microsofts own xps format (vista and 7s virtual printer and pdf concurrent) is supported with "okular" viewer.. perfect. Best time to load them and batch convert into pdf which is natively supported in linux.

the "me-menu" above is great for facebook/msn chat and with gwibber I can post and message pics/vids to twitter,flickr and facebook without opening their websites.

just great.

Toshiba Laptop 2009, all sort of goodies, 4GB Ram, Ati DX11 card = everythings working perfectly with ubuntu.

Prove it moran.

You can't, cause you're a moran who's probably using some HP pc you bought at best buy and think you're a computer genius now cause you've updated your mcaffee anti virus all by yourself!

Tip: Adobe Flash (flashplayerX.so) saves all FLV files in /tmp/ directory as FlashXXXXX

Just copy those to where you want them as file.flv. You can even do the copy while it is still downloading as the handle is still valid wherever the file is thanks to ext fs. If you close the player before you copy the file it will be deleted by the flash player but if you copy it before you close it won't be deleted.

Sorry I should have said move the file, not copy. If you copy it will only be what was downloaded at the time you copied. Move the file and it will still continue to download.

This applies to all browsers that use the libflashplayer.so on Linux at least. Perhaps others as well.