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    Whats so good about linux?
    « on: August 01, 2008, 09:43:23 AM »
    Really?? They have it at school, but I have XP and it's so much better and easier to use. So really-what good is there in linux?

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    Re: Whats so good about linux?
    « Reply #1 on: August 01, 2008, 10:06:59 AM »
    1. Linux is free, Windows costs money.
    2. Linux is open source, Windows is closed source.
    3. Linux is more interesting than Windows.
    4. Not everybody thinks Windows XP is better.

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    Re: Whats so good about linux?
    « Reply #2 on: August 01, 2008, 10:07:35 AM »
    And you can run (boot) it portably (off a CD or Flash Drive)

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    Re: Whats so good about linux?
    « Reply #3 on: August 01, 2008, 11:32:19 AM »
    ya i like linux there are also versions that will run on a pc with like 400mhz cpu and 64mb ram and personally linux in better then 98

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    Re: Whats so good about linux?
    « Reply #4 on: August 04, 2008, 06:32:41 PM »
    Wow, that could either be a troll question or a serious plea.  Hard to tell.

    My full answer is available at the link in my signature.  But the short answer is that Linux is much less frustrating than Windows.

    I just started a job where I have to use Windows.  Everything else about the job is great, but I had kind of forgotten why I disliked working with Windows so much.  Now I'm getting a refresher.

    Here's another thing I'm going to add to my site: keyboard focus.  With Linux, the keyboard focus is almost always where I expect it to be.  But with Windows, when I start up Microsoft Outlook for example, it pops up the login dialog so it has the focus, but then shifts the focus away before I'm finished typing in my authentication info.  And you can't bring it back with ALT-Tab; you MUST click on it with the hateful mouse.  That kind of thing is not uncommon with Windows, but I never encounter it with Linux.

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      Re: Whats so good about linux?
      « Reply #5 on: August 11, 2008, 09:15:23 PM »
      I have XP and it's so much better and easier to use. So really-what good is there in linux?

      Troll, but *censored*?

      Linux isn't installed on your machine with hidden partitions to keep you locked into Vista and Micro$uck for all of eternity. HP tried to do that to me, which is what caused me to go Linux. But if you like XP, no one here has a problem with that. The world needs lemmings as well as free thinkers. Be sure and sing the Micro$haft lullaby every night:

      Bill Gates loves me this I know
      For Mi cro soft tells me so
      All PeeCees to him belong
      'Cause he can steal what ever he wants

      Yes Bill Gates loves me
      Yes Bill Gates loves me
      Yes Bill Gates loves me
      Mi cro soft tells me so.

      YMMV,
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