Re: [News] Linux Bashing Based on Self Interest, Propaganda, Old Linux Experience, or Lack of Experience
"Mark Kent" <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
__/ [ Oliver Wong ] on Wednesday 16 August 2006 23:18 \__
"Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Are you qualified to bash GNU/Linux?
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| The usual sources of this (mis)information are things other people
said
| about GNU/Linux (i.e. heresay), Microsoft propaganda or a personal
| experience. Well the last one can be valid, but not in the context
| I am talking about, not when this personal experience is based on
| ignorance or is just too old to be a valid measure to draw
conclusions
| from.
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http://www.nuxified.org/are_you_qualified_to_bash_gnu_linux
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I do suggest not to go spread false conclusions you based on an outdated
experience you may have had with it. If you didn't try GNU/Linux today
or
very recently, you pretty much don't have a lot to say about its present
state. If you do want to talk about it then make it clear you are
talking
about GNU/Linux *then*, not today. This way you are acknowledging the
source of your conclusions and the fact that they don't apply to the
present state. </quote>
If you didn't try GNU/Linux *TODAY*?! Does Linux really evolve that
rapidly? If I tried installing Debian and got a driver problem that I
could
resolve in 24 hours, is it better to delete and download a more recent
copy
of the ISO than to spend any further time on it, as they've probably
fixed
the problem by now?
Sounds like quite an exageration to me...
[...]
However, in the rather puerile example given by Mr Wong above, it's a
trivial matter to look on the debian bugs listings and check versions to
/see/ what has changed - you're not dealing blindly with binaries, as
you have to with Windows, here you're dealing with linux where you can
actively check.
Further, if you were using debian, aptitude would show you what's
changed anyway, just by running an update. Rather as the original
commentator mentioned, if you don't know all of this (and Mr Wong
clearly doesn't), then he's not really qualified to discuss the merits
of Debian, in my view.
I guess you were assuming that after spending 24 hours or so on the
driver problem, the user would stick with Debian anyway. My assumption
(based on my own personal experience) is that if Debian couldn't provide
drivers for my hardware, I'd just delete Debian and go back to Windows until
the next release. Thus, having aptitude "show you what's changed anyway,
just by running an update" is not a feasible solution, since AFAIK, aptitude
has not been ported to Windows XP.
- Oliver
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