Linux
Can I propose Linux (the desktop version) for this? It has had the best part of 20 years to 'kill' Windows, and hasn't dented the surface.

I have a theory (which I posted on another board a few years ago). Goes something like this.

'Hey Dave, I'd like to propose we migrate all our Windows desktops to this great new Operating system. It is technically better, more secure, it is free and it will run on cheaper hardware'.

'Wow, sounds great. What's it called?'

'Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon'

'What? Have you been smoking crack??'

'Oh, well we could go for Puppy Linux. Or maybe hungry duck? How about Bile spewing camel*?'

'That toner cartridge in accounts receivable isn't going to change itself. Off you go'.


* may not be actual distros . . .
( Not Pineapple anymore, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 13:56, 7 replies)

This is very very very true.
"Funny" kernel names are not funny. The worst offender is "Ubuntu" (which I'm using to write this) - a brilliant desktop, with a fucking awful, mung-beans-and-worthiness name.

Clever people don't always (or ever) have any savvy.
( DrPrunesquallor is determined to post more as of, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 14:24, closed)

That's why they've started with the numbers
I'm running 9.04 LTS and I neither know nor care about its alliterative amusing animal appelation.
( Amish Information Systems hates misplaced, commas, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 15:51, closed)

I Blame
Furries, for the stupid bloody names of Ubuntu releases.
(caescarna Hell's Roomba, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 14:47, closed)

Debian.
I've tried a lot of distros but I love Debian the most.
(Archeleus hates cabbage, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 15:22, closed)

haha
they do pick some silly names
( Finite "Aardvark sorted out my shit!" on, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 15:49, closed)

I once tried using a Linux-like system to compile a program that had no Windows version.
The task was easy to carry out in theory, but the installation had somehow been knacked up, so it spewed error messages so cryptic and unhelpful they may as well just have said "YOU ARE WRONG". After five hours of fruitless struggle I gave up and deleted it all. Conclusion: Linux is shit.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 21:22, closed)

The trouble with Linux is
it's a hobby rather than an operating system. OS X is a proper OS. It works.

That said I use Linux all day every day for work and I love it. I can't remember the last time I rebooted my workstation.
( pixel_fucker is going to need a bigger brush, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 23:29, closed)