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What makes one linux distro better than others?
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Jun 9, 2013 at 2:22pm
@devonrevenge: There are two approaches:
1. OS that expects the user to know what he is doing.
2. OS that even an idiot can use. Logical conclusion is that the user has to be assumed to be an idiot and therefore, as safety measure, the user is given no chance to do anything (since everything is potentially harmful) even if they would know what they would do.
Networking involves communication with other devices. If is fine and dandy to play in private sandbox, but when others are involved one must assume that the others are malicious non-idiots. That is a dangerous world, unless you know and understand the dirty details.
GNU/Linux is not a million times better than MS Windows, if you know how to use Linux and know how to use Windows. I have a feeling that majority of those, who find Linux hard don't actually know how to use Windows. See "unconsciously incompetent" in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_stages_of_competence
While it is convenient that such users can operate a (Windows) device, is it beneficial in longer term that such usage offers no stimulus to learn more?
1. OS that expects the user to know what he is doing.
2. OS that even an idiot can use. Logical conclusion is that the user has to be assumed to be an idiot and therefore, as safety measure, the user is given no chance to do anything (since everything is potentially harmful) even if they would know what they would do.
Networking involves communication with other devices. If is fine and dandy to play in private sandbox, but when others are involved one must assume that the others are malicious non-idiots. That is a dangerous world, unless you know and understand the dirty details.
GNU/Linux is not a million times better than MS Windows, if you know how to use Linux and know how to use Windows. I have a feeling that majority of those, who find Linux hard don't actually know how to use Windows. See "unconsciously incompetent" in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_stages_of_competence
While it is convenient that such users can operate a (Windows) device, is it beneficial in longer term that such usage offers no stimulus to learn more?
Jun 9, 2013 at 3:50pm| Mandriva Linux is dead. Which is a shame, because it had some of the smoothest fonts I've seen in a Linux distro, out of the box. Then again, Mandriva's not really dead. I'm sure there must be some Mandriva-clone out there. |
No, the company that made Mandriva has changed its focus. Though, you are right, it exists in a variant, it
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Jun 9, 2013 at 4:07pm
Thanks for refreshing my memory BHXSpecter, I remember reading about Mageia.
No wonder it was discontinued. How stupid must one be, in order to do this and still expect a user base to form?
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| Linux XP had to be registered within 99 boots after installation, or the OS would deactivate. |
No wonder it was discontinued. How stupid must one be, in order to do this and still expect a user base to form?
Jun 9, 2013 at 8:08pm
what were they thinking?
interesting about the four stages of incompetence, i say the first stage may be where you didnt even know there was something there that you had to learn, this should be called incompetent uncounciousness
interesting about the four stages of incompetence, i say the first stage may be where you didnt even know there was something there that you had to learn, this should be called incompetent uncounciousness
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