Do you like Linux? (If so. Why?)

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Because it's free... a) as in "freedom", and b) as in my wallet.

It's also faster, more secure, and more customizable.

I think I would wait for a few more years to see where the linux community is heading, I have tested Arch, Freebsd,ubuntu,mint and ubuntu was too heavy for my system.

Wish I had a $CurrencyUnit for every time I've seen this comment from someone who inevitably goes on to claim they've tested Linux - presumably all of it, every distro, on every CPU supported and across a huge range of hardware - and yet still find it wanting.
Many of them are likely posting these opinions via a Linux-powered router or other network kit, which rather negates any reason to wait and see because it's already happened.

It's actually more useful to apply the same approach to Microsoft because the answer is immediate and copiously demonstrated daily.

Hang on I did not say I tested every single distro, I tried ubuntu,arch linux, freebsd, mint, puppy, what I am saying is that the linux community still needs time to come up with a strong competitor for windows. I like linux and I think it is so much better than windows, support is getting better and I do play world of warcraft, I have played it on ubuntu and the sound drops every now and then, it plays smooth on windows as it is optimized and designed for windows and mac.

Anyway my attention span will not allow me to go and spend hours configuring linux distros.

Linux has been around for 20 years, and is dominating the supercomputer market and the cell phone market, runs in large numbers of consumer devices, runs on an enormous number of architectures, etc., etc. IMO, it has been a strong competitor for windows since 1995, when I first tried it.


Sound dropping on WoW is likely a wine issue. By its very nature, wine will likely never completely catch up with windows, although what they have achieved is pretty impressive.

Yes i agree it has been around for a long time. I am not a windows fanboy as i do think linux is more secure and i wish game companies would make native versions for linux.

I do like freebsd

Technically OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and NetBSD would be the "free better version of the mac", since OS X is based on BSD.

Yeah, I know you didn't test every one - just poking a bit of fun at the way testing a few Linux desktop distros becomes "the Linux community".

But you'll have a long wait for that strong competitor to Windows thing because "the Linux community" is not and never will be some sort of commercial competitor to Microsoft. That's not what it's about at all: Linux exists and is developed because it's useful, not because it's competition for Windows.

Several companies are already doing very nicely with Linux or components of Linux and wipe the floor with the nearest Microsoft equivalents.
Sorry that doesn't include games.

Meh, I never have spent hours configuring Linux stuff to get something fully functional (and absolutely not with the modern distros) - but I have spent hours tweaking and honing stuff because that's interesting in its own right - but it's not strictly necessary by any means.

I would love blizzard to make a linux native client as I would jump to linux within a heartbeat, one thing I do like is that there is a community that develops software for the community and everyone can contribute to the development.

I like arch linux as I can start from a base install and add what I like, no bloatware. Freebsd the same, but you got to install linux compatibility for flash etc. Most of all it is free and that is great.

The commercial Linux competitor to Windows will likely be developed by Google at some point in the near future. They've already got Android and Chrome OS, I'm sure they're working on a full computer operating system which will knock M$ off its high horse

^^ Yeah, good point.
Between Google and Apple there's already no way Microsoft will achieve anything significant with mobile phones, so that's a good start!

Microsoft is going bye bye and no one will miss it

Yep bye bye Microsoft

I certainly hope so...and good riddance. I am fairly new to Linux as a whole, but have been using Ubuntu lately, and I really, really like it.

I wouldn't be surprised if at some point as more people adopt Linux as a Desktop that MS will abandon their proprietary OS and base their future releases on a Linux kernel, so I wouldn't write of MS.

Xforwarding, aircrack (including related utilities), and mdadm.

Not bad for software RAID5 using cheapy SATA controllers.

If Battlefield 3 played decently within WINE I'd switch right now.