On 2015-06-10 3:48 PM, T wrote:
On 06/10/2015 09:53 AM, GreyCloud wrote:
Stef wrote:

Joel wrote:

"Roger Blake" wrote in message
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On 2015-06-10, Joel wrote:
This machine it's slow to open applications and fast to close. That's
why I prefer older Windows versions, they are much smoother. And it's
becoming darker
interface like Linux.

There is no single "Linux user interface." Linux users have the choice
of quite a few, some very much like Windows, some like nothing else on
Earth. I use Xfce myself which has a pretty traditional look and feel,
and would hardly describe it as "dark."


The command console is usually black as ms-dos. I know Linux users can
change the wallpaper and configure the looks. You can have both on same
machine, there is a lot of options to do with those. Only thing I don't
understand is why they say Linux is safer and open source. Should be
closed and safer.

With Linux you can change everything or just about. Well, even "just
about" can be changed, but you have to get into the code and recompile
it which you can't do with proprietary "closed" software. And that's
one of the reasons that makes Linux "safer:" you can check the code for
"bad" things, edit them out, and recompile. Or fix errors. Or alter
the app to suit your needs.


That may be as one that can and understand linux and where the config
files
are, but for the rest of the people, linux will be almost impossible for
them to configure without going to some school or class. If their wi-fi
connection doesn't work, what would you think their first reaction to
this
will be?

Dell has tried to sell PCs with linux preinstalled and so has HP. Their
efforts were ignored by the public and soon the PCs were pulled from the
market place.

The real problem is computing stagnation. Even HPs CEO recognizes
this and
is trying to do something about this. Kind of reminds me of the 70s and
CP/M and S-100 boxes. That market stagnated as well. When IBM came out
with something new, the PC, the CP/M almost died overnight.


Hi GreyCloud,

What ?!?!?!?! I do this stuff all the time. I can use command line
or the build-in GIU utilties. Linux is as easy, if not easier, to
configure that Windows!

I am constantly using my Live USB and direct USB to troubleshoot
Windows machines. And, on live media the wireless works
spectacularly! So does printer-config!

I think you are remember about 10 years ago. Here is a link
to Fedora Core 22's Live Media. You should burn a bunch of
them and see for yourself:

https://spins.fedoraproject.org/

By the way, good luck telling KDE4 apart from Windows 7 (Windows 7
ripped off KDE4).

Just for fun, I wanted to see how well Linux "just works" on the machine
I own, an MSI GT72 2QD Dominator.

If I install Linux on it:

- The wireless won't work because the chip is too recent
- The operating system won't allow me to switch from the integrated
(Intel HD 4600) graphics to the GPU (NVIDIA GTX 970M) at all. I have to
make this switch within Windows
- The illuminated keyboard doesn't work at all.
- If I use NVIDIA's proprietary driver for the GTX 970M, I can look
forward to a constantly shimmering image.
https://askubuntu.com/questions/565835/integrated-graphics-shows-shimmering-display
& https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=250805.0

In other words, your toiletware doesn't "just work," it's "just annoys
the **** out of the user."

Stop promoting the piece of garbage some pre-teens coded in-between 7th
grade classes. Windows works, Linux doesn't.

--
Slimer
Proud "wintroll"
Encrypt.