OS wars?

[DimPrawn]

Linux. Who's using that tulip? A few geeks wanking over a command line from the 1970's.

Here's the future. Get used to it.

[mcquiggd]

Is every document displayed at a wonky angle....?

It will bring a whole new dimension to porn....

[darmstadt]

The background looks distinctly like a SuSE Pro system

[threaded]

That's not the worst of it - A linux geek colleague using Fedora Core 2 (I think?) about a year ago managed to trash an external disk by plugging disks in and out of a USB hub - Linux got in a muddle over the drive assignments, and when he did a format it formatted the disk containing his vast collection of mp3s! His latest backup was a year ago earlier, and only contained a tiny fraction of what he lost.

People like that should stick to a consumer OS. Would you lend a lambo to someone who's still learning how to drive?

[wobbegong]

I have a dual boot Win2K/Xandros system at home. The Linux distro works fine, I've not tried it with USB disk drives but it's perfectly happy with USB keys.

I tried Fedora Core 2; what a pain in the arse! Nothing worked (sound, modem, video) without patches and fiddling, but Xandros installs and runs perfectly.

[darmstadt]

My Redhat system doesn't recognise (i.e. automount) a USB disk or stick. I have to do that manually but it does find it so I know at what device it is to mount it manually (fnarr, fnarr)

My SuSE system does automount everything automatically and opens up Konqueror automatically

My Unixware system doesn't see anything

My Solaris 10x86 doesn't see anything, but this one is early days yet

[expat]

People like that should stick to a consumer OS. Would you lend a lambo to someone who's still learning how to drive?

You mean an OS that works. Would you expect to get under the bonnet with your toolkit every time you wanted to drive your tractor?

[white-anglo-reactionary]

Horses for courses, toys for boys

Microsoft products are for kids who played with Fisher-Price toys - nice to look at, well-designed child-toy interface, but limited in what you could do. Linux is for kids who preferred meccano. A Fisher-Price activity centre is great if you want to spin a wheel or honk a horn, but you couldn't build a crane with it, could you?

[expat]

Microsoft products are for kids who played with Fisher-Price toys - nice to look at, well-designed child-toy interface, but limited in what you could do. Linux is for kids who preferred meccano. A Fisher-Price activity centre is great if you want to spin a wheel or honk a horn, but you couldn't build a crane with it, could you?

But I don't want to build anything here, I just want to get on with using my data. If I wanted to have fun with my OS I'd use Linux (that's how come I've already got it on the PC).

But when I just want to drive to the supermarket, I don't start building a car with Meccano. I use the thing I've bought complete, that just goes when I want it to.

[Mordac]

People like that should stick to a consumer OS. Would you lend a lambo to someone who's still learning how to drive?

No, this might happen: (you do ask for it sometimes big fella)