Why do people prefer Linux over other versions of Unix?

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Pidgin is quite customizable, with loads of plugins. And there's a new program replacing Pidgin in the next Ubuntu release called Empathy. Empathy adds support for audio/video chat (among other things) and keeps the entire previous Pidgin feature set. When have you ever seen Pidgin crash? I've had Pidgin running basically nonstop for the past year without ever managing to see it crash once.

Oh, and Windows users don't get to b***h about Linux apps eating RAM. Your entire OS is a bloated pig. I have RAM to use for user apps because I'm not wasting it on the OS.


Then try mplayer, it's quite powerful.


If you like it, use it. I like what I use.


I've heard of all of those aside from MPC-Home Cinema. I haven't played much with foobar, but I've tried Miranda and disliked it. I have certain niche apps that aren't available as Windows freeware, or if they are it's irrelevant because they're also available on Linux. And I like having ssh built-in, along with easy access to better and more varied developer tools.


Right, my "inferior" software that is fast, secure, never crashes and does everything I want it to do.


Brasero works fine for me. There are plenty of other burning apps. K3B comes highly recommended.


I'd feel like I wasn't getting the most out of my computer if I didn't have the clean, intuitive interface of GNOME, the speed, stability, and security Linux offers, and a vast repository system that gives me access to thousands of completely free programs with just a few keystrokes along with providing a universal, automated way of keeping everything up to date.

It's customizable, yes, but not nearly as much as Miranda IM.



I already told you that Windows is bloated, so I don't see why you randomly decided to state this..... I don't have an operating system preference to be honest with you, I only have software preferences. I use Windows operating systems strictly because I can run my choice programs on it.



If I try it out, I'll tell you what I think. I won't assume that it's crap until I use it and give my honest opinion on it.



You like Pidgin yet dislike Miranda IM? Is it because Miranda IM has lower aesthetic value than Pidgin, or what? The only thing Pidgin has over Miranda is higher aesthetic value, that's all. The client is not very stable at all (it doesn't crash as much as it used to, but it's buggy as hell), it uses up way more ram than Miranda, has way less plugins available for it than Miranda, it gets updated way less frequently than Miranda....shall I go on? It's simply an inferior highly overrated multi-protocol instant messenger.



Just like my software. The only thing though is that there's simply no adequate alternative apps out for Linux out of all those apps I'd mentioned at the moment, so yes, it is inferior.



IMGBurn is pretty much a flawless program.

I found this doing a quick Google search:



Hmmm.....

Lightning UK (who is the developer of IMGBurn) is one of the most highly respected people in the software world. IMGBurn is stable as software can get, is extremely lean and is way better than pay bloatware like Ahead Nero Burning Rom.



Nice, but for me personally, the software I run on my computer is a hell of a lot more important than the operating system I am using. Windows XPs speed, stability and security is adequate enough in my opinion. It's the software I truly care about since, well, any operating system with no software installed on it would be useless whether it be Windows, Linux or Mac. Give me an adequate operating system that can run the best software available on it, and I'll be content. Some of the best software for Linux may be good, but hardly any of it is as good as many of the Windows-only apps I run like Foobar, Media Player Classic, IMGBurn, etc. since these are unsurpassed at the moment in my opinion, and the opinion of well, nearly anyone who's used those apps.

The two of us must just be using our computers for different purposes. For what I do, Linux works great, OS X is mostly workable, and Windows is completely unsatisfactory. If the opposite is true for you, then you are probably have different needs than I do. So use the right tool for the job. Windows works for you- great, keep using it. I'll keep using Linux. One of Debian's main release goals for Squeeze is to make hardware support suck less on MacTel laptops, so I'll cross my fingers and hope they meet that goal. If they do, Linux will have pretty much reached perfection for my purposes.

But on the topic of Pidign: I really haven't run into all that many bugs in it that I can think of, and I've used it quite heavily. I guess, as with anything, YMMV.

I think it's because of the penguin