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5/21/12 at 8:26am
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Originally Posted by joshd View Post

This is a joke, right? 20,000,000 people use just one distro as their desktop: ubuntu. It aint dead. It's only going to grow after Windows 8 release.

That my friend is a tad bit ignorant. You honestly think, for the average user, that they'll go anything but mainstream? Better yet, you honestly think that the average user will think or even care to go to Linux, like a big light bulb just lit up over their head? Be real. They'll do one of 3 things:

Stick it out on Windows, liking it eventually.
Switch to Mac.
Figure out a way to get 7 on their PC.

I'm betting on the later.

Will Linux's market rise? Sure, but just a hair, barely, if that. Not sure why people keep referring to 8 as "ME 2". Do these people even remember WHY me was as bad as it was? Are you guys even old enough to remember? Windows 8 isn't blue screening, slow and unstable. It's perfectly usable, and actually very fast. The only thing different is the start menu, which they've replaced with a start SCREEN that functions almost the same way.
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5/21/12 at 8:30am
day 3) Erm it does support vpn, and why is it linux fault apple wont make itunes linux?
day 4) it does its called linux mint
day 5) wahhh ive been caled out
day 6) so your complainnig that your laptop went to sleep?
day7) Thunderbird is the usual choice but everyone to there own
day 8) why do you need tools
day 9) ¬_¬
day 10) more crying
giving up my head hurts
Quote:
Originally Posted by Raven Dizzle View Post

Windows 8 isn't blue screening, slow and unstable. It's perfectly usable, and actually very fast. The only thing different is the start menu, which they've replaced with a start SCREEN that functions almost the same way.

Im getting constant blue screens on mine >_< but apart from that and not being able to use 3 screens, and the screen does nto function in the same way ... you dont click a mouse you use the windows key, which even supprised me to find people not knowing what it did
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Originally Posted by Vagrant Storm View Post

The author probably just looked at their own little piece of the world. I mean if I looked around my work place it would easy for me to say Linux is dying...we are consistently replacing Zimbra with MS Exchange...SUSE with Sever 2008 and I don't think I've seen a distro of linux on a desktop in a work place in over five years

Where as i see the opposite as you say people see there part of the world
Edited by Ulquiorra - 5/21/12 at 8:39am
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5/21/12 at 8:34am
The author probably just looked at their own little piece of the world. I mean if I looked around my work place it would easy for me to say Linux is dying...we are consistently replacing Zimbra with MS Exchange...SUSE with Sever 2008 and I don't think I've seen a distro of linux on a desktop in a work place in over five years. I am sure there are all sorts of people using at hoe though on machines they don't want to spend the money for a Microsoft OS for.

Linux is pretty much dead to me. I have a laptop at home with Sabayon on it that I use to surf from my couch, but today I don't see much reason to put linux on a desktop unless it is not going to be much of a system...which is basically means it is the same as my "couch laptop" that just can't move. If you are putting in $1200 worth of hardware you will likely install windows.

Even my laptop will likely get move to windows again one of these days...I just have linux on there for fun and to stop my wife from using it since she can't understand anything non-windows. It doesn't really matter if the system is just an old C2D with a 8600M GPU...I wouldn't even use it to photoshop
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5/21/12 at 8:37am
- "Why Linux on the Desktop is Dead"
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5/21/12 at 8:41am
It's not dead it's just not a lot of people not using it, because they don't know how to use it!!

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5/21/12 at 8:53am
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It's not dead it's just not a lot of people not using it, because they don't know how to use it!!

No excuse. I've got my 80 year old grandmother, 83 year old grandfather, mom, aunt, and pretty much our whole family using it. Took me about 5 minutes worth of explaining and they were able to figure out the rest with no problems. Hell, my 4 year old niece uses it fine enough as well.

9/10 the people that have issues with it, are those going into it thinking it's Windows. It's not, plain and simple. I don't even know how many time's I've heard " but in Windows I do it this way " on forums and IRC. People just need to realize, it isn't Windows. Don't try to do things the "windows way", it won't work out well.

People had to learn to use Windows at some point in time, whether they remember it or not. And Linux is being used more and more in schools which means the newer generations will have the knowledge to use it from an early age like most of you had. wink.gif
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5/21/12 at 9:08am
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And Linux is being used more and more in schools which means the newer generations will have the knowledge to use it from an early age like most of you had. wink.gif



Please name any Division 1 or Ivy league university that uses Linux as their primary operating system.. And don't just throw names. Show me actual sourced, cited, proof.
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5/21/12 at 9:14am
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Please name any Division 1 or Ivy league university that uses Linux as their primary operating system.. And don't just throw names. Show me actual sourced, cited, proof.

You know there are more schools than just "Ivy League" ones, right?
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5/21/12 at 9:15am
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Please name any Division 1 or Ivy league university that uses Linux as their primary operating system.. And don't just throw names. Show me actual sourced, cited, proof.

Maybe you missed the "early age" part of that. Sorry, I don't know of any toddlers in Universities.

Oh, and just for lulz look up Pakistan schools and colleges. To name one -area-.

Or, maybe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfT9zMo0WHw for K-12.

There is literally thousands of different schools around the world that use Linux. And it's ever growing.
Edited by Shrak - 5/21/12 at 9:19am
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5/21/12 at 9:21am
It's been dead since it was invented for desktop use and anyone who denies that is just being silly. It's great for its purpose but it's purpose isn't the same as windows....
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