Comments on: everyone uses Linux

By: fullmetalgerbil

fullmetalgerbil — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:06:53 +0000

Ah, the shadowy penguin cabal secretly overtaking the transnationals. Love it.

By: Nixser.com » Get the real facts, Microsoft.

Nixser.com » Get the real facts, Microsoft. — Mon, 28 May 2007 15:12:40 +0000

[...] stumbled upon a blog entry of Sarah, “Everyone uses Linux“. You should visit her dad’s website too. Title of the site reads “free the [...]

By: Lawrence

Lawrence — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:25:32 +0000

Hah, Linux crappy as a desktop OS? I’ve been using Linux for the last five years exclusively for a desktop OS, and it’s more advanced than Windows - then AND now. XGL kicks Vista’s sorry ass to the curb and then some.
My entire family uses Linux as their desktop OS. My girlfriend uses Linux as her desktop OS, and recently wiped her WindowsXP dualboot to reclaim the diskspace it was (ab)using. A friend recently asked me to install Linux on her laptop, as she recently had to wipe 750 virus’ off her laptop and doesn’t want to have to go through that again. Not to mention she is a police detective, and she wants her drive encrypted with a RELIABLE encryption scheme. Something that LUKS can provide, not Vista’s sorry excuse for encryption that is just waiting to be cracked.
I’m sorry, but anyone who says that Linux isn’t ready for the desktop hasn’t been paying attention since at least last millenium.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 12:50:13 +0000

Dennis: When was the last time you tried a distribution of Linux aimed for a desktop computer? I think it’s decidedly not crappy, otherwise there wouldn’t be such steam behind distributions like Ubuntu, which makes it so easy, pretty, and user-friendly to use Linux on a desktop system.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 05:04:58 +0000

Did you mention that linux for a desktop computer is crappy? Don’t get me wrong i like linux and all its mainly used for SERVERS since there are no viruses or works possible to write for linux.

By: Everyone Uses Linux at Epsilon’s Blog

Everyone Uses Linux at Epsilon’s Blog — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 23:36:07 +0000

[...] Everyone Uses Linux Published April 20th, 2007 Don’t you have any friends with living brain cells? Let me see, Sony, the largest consumer electronics company on the planet, uses Linux for its products and its movies. IBM (remember them? the monster from which a little company called Lexmark sprang?) not only uses it but considers it so valuable that it warrants betting corporate reputation, all software products and uncounted hundreds of millions of dollars (perhaps billions) defending. NASA and the European Space Agency depend on it. The U.S. Department of Defense says its ability to function would be dangerously hampered if they couldn’t use F/OSS and the centerpiece in that usage is Linux. Google, of course, is the world’s largest Linux installation. Cisco uses Linux (although Cisco no longer holds a monopoly-sized share of major Internet routers, their name is still stamped on so many of the backbone routers that their sudden disappearance would effectively mean the disappearance of the Internet). # [...]

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 00:48:20 +0000

I have recently switched to Ubuntu and love it. I stumbled upon this page and am glad I did.

By: Aeropunkie

Aeropunkie — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 20:59:23 +0000

I use Centos, Redhat, Suse, Pfsense.

By: Jesse McNelis

Jesse McNelis — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 16:32:39 +0000

sucking less is what useable desktop software is all about. It’s never going to be good because the requirements are always large and quickly shifting.
Look at web browsers, there isn’t a good web browser anywhere because the requirements are so large that writing a good web browser is so much effort that it easier just to stick with the crap we have and Firefox does suckless than most of the others.

By: grouch

grouch — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 02:55:21 +0000

A clarification: My earlier comment referencing astroturfers was not aimed at the commentary on this blog. There have been comments posted regarding this article on other sites and some of those comments exactly echo the bullet points of Microsoft’s campaign against GNU/Linux.

For more on “stealth marketing”, where individuals are paid to be astroturfers, see http://spankmymarketer.com