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"As a user-level operating system, Linux is a cruel and tawdry lie."

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  "As a user-level operating system, Linux is a cruel and tawdry lie." Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> - 2015-12-27 02:49 +0100
    Re: "As a user-level operating system, Linux is a cruel and tawdry lie." "p-0''0-h the cat (UK) - The voice of the Sheeple" <super.pooh@furryfreeware.invalid> - 2015-12-27 09:22 +0000
    Re: "As a user-level operating system, Linux is a cruel and tawdry lie." Nemo <Nemo@INVALID.org> - 2015-12-27 03:26 -0600
      Re: "As a user-level operating system, Linux is a cruel and tawdry lie." "p-0''0-h the cat (UK) - The voice of the Sheeple" <super.pooh@furryfreeware.invalid> - 2015-12-27 09:43 +0000

#251123 — "As a user-level operating system, Linux is a cruel and tawdry lie."

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Andy Ihnatko
Sorting through the Linux lie: What it really can do

June 23, 2005

BY ANDY IHNATKO

In preparation for this column, I have strapped on the White Beard of
Infallible Punditry.

I remind you all that when I am wearing the WBoIP, all of my
pronouncements are absolutely flawless from all conceivable logical
angles, and are not to be questioned.

Pronouncement the First: As a user-level operating system, Linux is a
cruel and tawdry lie. Bigfoot will fly to your house and personally
deliver a $30,000 tax refund before there's a Linux that can challenge
Windows or MacOS in terms of usability. If anyone tells you otherwise,
your only rebuttal should be to administer that thing that Moe used to
do to Larry -- you know, where he'd grab Larry's nose with one hand
and smack it down with the other.

Pronouncement the Second: None of that matters. Linux is still one of
the best and most important OS's on the landscape.

It's just that anyone who tries to install (or God forbid) promote it
as an alternative to a mainstream user OS just plain doesn't get it,
and it's doubtful that the above-mentioned corrective action will do
any good. It's still fun, of course.

I've been using various Linux distributions for four or five years
now, and each and every one has underscored a basic point about this
operating system. Linux isn't a Toyota, designed to carry groceries
and kids in comfort and convenience. It's a street rod geared toward
performance over convenience.

The classic Linux user isn't attracted to heated seats, an automatic
transmission, three cupholders within easy reach and zero daily
maintenance.

To the contrary: the fact that Linux requires its users to get their
fingernails dirty from time to time is considered a strength, not a
drawback.

Linux is the ultimate OS for people who know what they're doing.

And here you see the problem.

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#251127

On Sun, 27 Dec 2015 02:49:22 +0100 (CET), Nomen Nescio wrote:

> http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1429867/posts
> 
> Andy Ihnatko
> Sorting through the Linux lie: What it really can do
> 
> June 23, 2005
> 
> BY ANDY IHNATKO
> 
> In preparation for this column, I have strapped on the White Beard of
> Infallible Punditry.
> 
> I remind you all that when I am wearing the WBoIP, all of my
> pronouncements are absolutely flawless from all conceivable logical
> angles, and are not to be questioned.
> 
> Pronouncement the First: As a user-level operating system, Linux is a
> cruel and tawdry lie. Bigfoot will fly to your house and personally
> deliver a $30,000 tax refund before there's a Linux that can challenge
> Windows or MacOS in terms of usability. 

True

> If anyone tells you otherwise,
> your only rebuttal should be to administer that thing that Moe used to
> do to Larry -- you know, where he'd grab Larry's nose with one hand
> and smack it down with the other.
> 
> Pronouncement the Second: None of that matters. Linux is still one of
> the best and most important OS's on the landscape.
> 
> It's just that anyone who tries to install (or God forbid) promote it
> as an alternative to a mainstream user OS just plain doesn't get it,
> and it's doubtful that the above-mentioned corrective action will do
> any good. It's still fun, of course.
> 
> I've 

Newbie, ignore.

> been using various Linux distributions for four or five years
> now, and each and every one has underscored a basic point about this
> operating system. Linux isn't a Toyota, designed to carry groceries
> and kids in comfort and convenience. It's a street rod geared toward
> performance over convenience.

More like a kit car.

> The classic Linux user isn't attracted to heated seats, an automatic
> transmission, three cupholders within easy reach and zero daily
> maintenance.

Yeah, it tends to get messed up when you have to hose out the verbal
diarrhea every week.

> To the contrary: the fact that Linux requires its users to get their
> fingernails dirty from time to time is considered a strength, not a
> drawback.

Yeah, you would say that.

> Linux is the ultimate OS for people who know what they're doing.

No, it's not.

> And here you see the problem.

What problem is that? You never defined 'the problem'.

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#251128

On Sun, 27 Dec 2015 02:49:22 +0100, Nomen Nescio wrote:

> http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1429867/posts
> 
> Andy Ihnatko Sorting through the Linux lie: What it really can do
> 
> June 23, 2005
> 
> BY ANDY IHNATKO
> 
> In preparation for this column, I have strapped on the White Beard of
> Infallible Punditry.

I wonder if anything has changed in the ten (going on eleven) years since 
this was written?

f.
 

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#251130

On Sun, 27 Dec 2015 03:26:12 -0600, Nemo wrote:

> On Sun, 27 Dec 2015 02:49:22 +0100, Nomen Nescio wrote:
> 
>> http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1429867/posts
>> 
>> Andy Ihnatko Sorting through the Linux lie: What it really can do
>> 
>> June 23, 2005
>> 
>> BY ANDY IHNATKO
>> 
>> In preparation for this column, I have strapped on the White Beard of
>> Infallible Punditry.
> 
> I wonder if anything has changed in the ten (going on eleven) years since 
> this was written?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Ihnatko

http://ihnatko.com/

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ANDY+IHNATKO


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snittish scumbag, liar, total ******* retard, shill, pooh-seur, 
scouringerer, jumped up chav, lycanthropic schizotypal lesbian,
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