On 2014-08-17 12:58 PM, A wrote:
Silver Slimer wrote:
On 2014-08-16 6:42 PM, Roderick Stewart wrote:
On Sat, 16 Aug 2014 12:41:34 -0400, Silver Slimer
wrote:

OS war! -)

There's no war, GNU/Linux has already lost. I'm generally very
open-minded about other operating systems but GNU/Linux is so
destructively awful that I have to advocate staying away from it
completely. There's no excuse for the same system and the same game
screen tearing when played in GNU/Linux, there's no excuse for a very
standard computer refusing to shut down or sleep in GNU/Linux, there's
also no excuse for one of their main desktop environments to run
slow on
an i3 with 8GB of RAM.

You must simply be unlucky with the particular machine on which you've
tried to install it. I have Mint Cinnamon 17 installed on several
computers on SSDs and it boots up in seconds runs nice and smoothly.
On some I have both Windows and Linux installed as a dual boot, and on
these computers Linux always boots up and loads applications faster
than Windows.

That's awesome. I hope that they wake from sleep and manage to shut down
correctly. I also hope that they don't experience screen tearing in 3D
games.

In my case, I have no interest in touching the operating system ever
again. Windows does a marvelous job and replacing it with GNU/Linux is
like replacing a Porsche with a Ford Fiesta.


You know what they say, "different strokes for different folks".
Personally, I would move to Linux in a New York second if it had an
Outlook like email program that did HTML the way I like it.

It's called Evolution and it's been a part of GNU/Linux for an
incredibly long time.

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Silver Slimer
OpenMedia Supporter
GNU/Linux is a dangerous attack on your data