Re: Time to abandon large mechanical hard drives?

From	Silver Slimer <slvrslmr@lv.c>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.os.linux.embedded
Subject	Re: Time to abandon large mechanical hard drives?
Date	2014-11-11 12:47 -0500
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<m3ti2p$5ur$2@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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On 11/11/2014 12:24 PM,  flatfish+++ wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Nov 2014 11:46:35 -0500, Silver Slimer wrote:
>
>> On 11/11/2014 11:37 AM,  flatfish+++ wrote:
>>
>>>> All the FOSS apps people are likely to want also run on Windows/Mac. This
>>>> gives them the best of both worlds... the proprietary apps they already know
>>>> and like plus the FOSS apps they may be interested in. With Win/Mac they can
>>>> run both and with Linux they can't.
>>>
>>> The best FOSS applications do indeed run on other platforms.
>>> Gimp, OpenOffice etc.
>>
>> Exactly. To be honest, *ONLY* the best open-source software runs on
>> other platforms and that is usually because there is a strong demand for
>> it. A certain Windows user has been exposed to something really great in
>> GNU/Linux and then makes an effort to bring it into his operating system
>> of choice. In GNU/Linux's ecosystem, every distribution makes it very
>> easy to get a hold of ANY software produced for the operating system
>> whether it is good or ridiculously awful. The result is that the
>> ecosystem is overwhelmed by absolute shit and you often have to go
>> through 7 or 8 really terrible programs before you find a half-decent
>> one that actually does what you want.
>
> And that's the problem with Linux distributions.
> Couple it with programs that have idiotic names and you end up
> spending a lot of time researching things.

I wonder how people were supposed to know that Asunder was the name of a 
CD-ripping program. Meanwhile, it's the very best GNU/Linux has to 
offer. The developers seem to be big fans of keeping things cryptic.

-- 
Silver Slimer
OpenMedia Supporter
www.silverlips.ca

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