A few days ago I was reading the news that the owner of 120Linux.com I was selling the domain for € 1500, a blog that has been online for several years (since 2007) and whose articles served me at certain times.
The motives? Well you can read them in the original entry, but I summarize them: Steven (Stephen DeWinter) it goes to OS X.
My intention with this article is not to criticize it, because everyone makes their decisions in life as they please. To Steven I say: Good luck in your adventure, you can always come back whenever you want.
GNU / Linux is really that bad?
I'll tell you my point of view.
I understand that GNU / Linux It does not work the same on different hardware, but that one spends his life configuring and therefore wasting time on it, is not entirely true. Now, if every 5 minutes you start to install something new and experiment, it is logical that something could break.
I am speaking to you from my personal experience. I am a user who uses the computer mostly for work. I work with servers, with code, text editors, browsers, I rarely play games and in my spare time, of course I enjoy a good movie. Therefore I am not demanding, I do not need advanced video cards and with Intel I am left over.
I have always used Intel for graphics and processors; Hard drives have passed through my hands of all sizes and brands, as well as all kinds of hardware and never, EVER, my distribution has left me thrown away.
I have been using Arch Linux several weeks, and still updating every day I have not had any problems. What's more, I only had to "configure" a few things when I first installed and have not had to touch anything else. The laptop that I use works with everything (except the fingerprint reader that I have not bothered to see if it works, because I do not use it).
It is true that many applications that are in our repositories do not have the quality or the options that we find for their counterparts. There are many specific applications for specific jobs that in GNU / Linux do not have a good finish, but BEWARE, sometimes we see it that way because we want the applications of GNU / Linux are equal to those of Windows.
But it is also true that many of the applications we use every day exceed those available in other Operating Systems. Okular, Ark, Dolphin, just to mention a few, have nothing to envy to Acrobat Reader, WinRAR or Files (aka Windows Explorer).
But sometimes it is not about the applications and the options they have, but about the use that we know how to give them. I have seen things made with Paint that have nothing to envy to things made with more powerful tools, for example.
Those who use OS X, or Windows, receive updates (or Service Pack) every thousand years and do not protest. Why not do the same with GNU / Linux? If something works for you, why update? But of course, many times we update, something breaks and then LINUX DOES NOT WORK. Well, know that in other OS exactly the same thing happens.
I think the problem may also be in the distribution we use. It is logical that someone who lacks time does not install a Gentoo, but to install and use we have many distributions: Chakra, Manjaro, Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Mageia, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Caixa Magica and a long etc, that is, look at how many options and I doubt that they all have the same problems.
It reminds me of Icaza saying that he had to compile for something to work for him .. Really? I think we all know here that this is not the case in all cases, or in very marked cases.
Right now, I have Linux installed on 3 different computers and on all of them, there is nothing that does not work: WiFi, Webcam, Audio, Video, in short, everything. Could it be that I have been lucky or that GNU / Linux has grown?
Therefore, and going back to the initial topic, if you want to use Windows, OS X, or some other OS because you like it, because you need it or simply because you feel like it, do it, but do not tell me at this point that it is better use OS X or Windows because it's easier, or because everything works, because guess what: Everything works for me with GNU / Linux too.
I currently have 3 different distributions on my PC, I have Ubuntu, Fedora Spin (for graphic design) and Kali Linux ... I like all three and with all 3 I do almost the same job (well Kali for audit of course) and if I have had problems with All three have been my own fault, not reading the "small letters" in some tutorial or wanting to experiment ... in the worst case I had a horrible problem in Fedora with the multiarch in which they wanted to install the same updates for both architectures and it gave me problems with dependencies, but I would never have had that problem if I had not installed Skype (which is a piece of garbage compared to Google Hangout and Ekiga) ... I also had a day to try Windows 8 ... before I hated Unity, but now I see it as something precious compared to "Modern UI" besides that the damn in 3 months was super slow without any rational explanation ... so I got fed up, I sent Windows to the devil and it is one more partition where I keep files
When people make the type of comparisons between Linux, OS X, Win only mentioning the practical advantages of each one, the easiest thing to do with one or the other system, leaving aside all their rights, giving away freedoms and giving everything to the empires that they do not care about the user and only see him as a consumer. The importance of the community resides in that they are part of the project, I would like to hear that you do not like linux and that you went to some bsd.
Another thing is that the owner of the blog seems to only know how to use Ubuntu, it gives the impression that I am not trying to use another Linux distribution
As I said, the point of the article is not to criticize you. Everyone to use what they want, but please, don't tell me that things don't work in GNU / Linux, and in OS X and Windows they do.
Hello,
I have already written other times for the same thing. I have been using GNU / Linux for more than 10 years and I love it. What I like the most is the feeling of freedom it gives me and the "can-do-everything" that I feel.
Also, for work reasons I have used Windows and Mac. From the first one I always end up fuming and making myself want not to return. Mac too, but much less.
Me, the downside I have with GNU / Linux is that in the end, and always for work reasons, I end up needing to turn to Windows to use Office. That, although it is true that the LO and OO alternatives are very good, they do not achieve acceptable compatibility (which is logical because of the complexity of the matter: change control, latest formats). I am not saying that it does not work but it does not do it 100% and if at work I have to deliver a document I do not risk doing it with LO in case the client cannot open it (well I know that the same can happen with different versions of MS Office, but I am calmer).
What happens to Mac, from my point of view, is that it has very good stability (closed hardware and stuff), it has a terminal and a UNIX philosophy that allows you to migrate "comfortably." desde Linux and also programs like MS Office without having to open a virtual machine to edit a document.
It is my opinion. I don't think Mac is better by any means, in fact there are things that drive me crazy about it. However, I have to admit that for some things it is very comfortable and it is normal for that to attract users.
I am still with Linux for now, but I can understand those who prefer other stable and comfortable platforms to work with (and I reiterate: stable and comfortable, not like MS Windows).
Interestingly, those who are ubunteros are (we) more likely to be "Linux whores", because we constantly go from distro to distro; either out of curiosity, or disagreement ...
I have on my two laptops (an IBM T60 and an HP Envy M6) Xubuntu Precise / Fedora Schödinger and Kubuntu Raring / Fedora Schödinger and Kubuntu Precise / Fedora Schödinger on the desktop and I must say that I have hardly had any quarrels. Perhaps, at the desk, when because of some capacitors that decided to jump into tantalum, the Nvidia driver gave it up for not funkar, or the ATi drivers that were put with the VSOD in an APU, but for the rest, everything it worked well 😛
very good article Elav, the truth is I use a double boot with Windows and Lubuntu, but I use windows because it "touches me" but not because I want to, I am a graphic designer and the graphic design programs that I learned to use are the adobe suite and corel draw and they are only for windows and mac and well the talk is not enough for a mac either, besides I am one of those who have a personal saying «I use GNU / Linux and I will always use it but if they gave me to choose between windows and mac I stay with windows »not because it is easier to use but because I take so many laps in choosing another system if I already know windows (not that it is bad to use a new system, no, not at all, I was using freeBSD for a while and I really liked it a lot, but I am a graphic designer and all the appropriate tools for design are found in windows, (if I know GNU / Linux has, inkscape, gimp, blender, xara, etc.) unfortunately I have little time to learn to handle other programs,that if I want to learn to use the free ones so as not to depend on windows, it would be EXCELLENT, but for now it's my turn, anyway good article and greetings!
Thank you ferchometal. Sorry to use you as an example, but you are exactly one of those users that I talk about in the article and do not take it the wrong way.
Sometimes we learn to work with a tool and not to work using the tool. I explain. Where I worked before (a school) we had a philosophy that we did not teach how to use a tool.
Whoever needs to make a text document only has to know how to write or the order that it entails depending on the type of document. You do not need to know how to work with Writter or Word, because to write something you only need a text editor that allows you to fulfill your objective.
In your case you learned Corel and Adobe (with their entire suite). You adapted to its shortcuts and its tools, but it does not mean that you cannot do the same with other applications, only that it will not be more comfortable for you because you do not know them thoroughly.
That's what I mean in the article. Many times we want Linux applications to be the same, or do the same as Windows or OS X. And yes, they may do the same, but to get there, another way is used.
regards
not calm, no problem precisely that is why I have not been able to become completely independent from windows, because I do not know how to handle free programs completely well, greetings!
I'm also a designer, I learned like you, photoshop and corel draw, but 2 years ago I decided to add gimp, inkscape, sk1 and other opensource applications, and today I do almost all things more in linux, windows I use it only in cases where there is no another and they are very rare, I would say almost nil. The truth is that today for me there is no difference, the issue is that you have to be somewhat self-taught and take the time to understand new programs, and convert what you do into each other, but that you can, you can.
But I'm also an amateur photographer and I've achieved better results with rawtherape or darktable on linux than with adobe Lightroom.
that good, you have tried to make a pdf printer with inkscape, the truth is that I know how to do it with adobe illustrator but in inkscape I fall short, and well, if I mess up the free programs but well, there we go ...
I do not understand .. How to make a printer with PDF? You mean print in Inkscape as PDF?
If it is that when one squares the printing format in Illustrator it ends up matching it well with the "pdf printer" option, it is called like that, but then one day I tried to do it in inkscape and then I didn't find the same option.
Ah well I'm not very knowledgeable in these topics, but I do know that with Inkscape the work is exported to PDF very easy ^ _ ^
In Linux you must receive updates because if not the new hardware or it would not work or it would not work as it should, since in each new kernel for example, new drivers are put.
That applies when you constantly change hardware. But if this is not the case, it is not entirely necessary. Of course, the Kernel may include improvements for the hardware you have, and therefore it needs updating, but it does not mean that you have to do it every day.
Of course not, but when I use debian with kernel 3.2 and another distro with kernel 3.9 I notice the difference ..., things like the usb wifi that I have, in kernel 3.2 every 30 minutes it turns itself off or crashes, the drivers intel hd4000 are pretty bad in games, or even my onboard sound card doesn't work in automute .., and things like that.
In addition to the fact that the turbo of the intel i5 does not work, it only works up to 3,4 ghz.
You can always upgrade the kernel. My Debian Wheezy at home has 3.10.4, it's thunder.
It is best to keep the kernel as up to date as possible.
I have been using Ubuntu for 5 years and the truth is that I never had big problems, whenever I installed something it worked and the only time I had to configure something extra was the ssd of my laptop, the trim and something else to make it more efficient, nothing else and see that I install things.
Be careful, I only use the lts version, which is supposed to be the most stable, and I add several launchpads and update the kernel to the last output for the latest version, also whenever I update I make sure that it is touched and if something is going to be deleted, thing to know if it can affect important things in the system.
Anyway, I think the problem is that this man has to live testing things and that makes the system destabilize, it would have been better for him to use a virtual machine, if possible.
Simple. This is what happens when a technical read only occurs when using Linux. It is technically indifferent whether OS X, Windows, or Linux is better suited for the task as long as it is the most appropriate tool. If the vision is political, it is different, because there is a transcendent reason to use free systems. That was lacking for the 120 Linux guy.
What is most difficult is to see the philosophy of the distro, when one assumes it, it no longer matters, any problem is solvable (and the problems are less and less, as long as they are reasonable problems), the problem itself is to adopt the way of thinking, that is consistent with what we want to do, I get hooked on kissing and, if possible, add the minimum possible effort to it, something that the AUR is spoiling me and more and more.
Changing ubuntu (from what I understand from the comments) for mac must have another story behind it. There is no relationship that I can glimpse. since ubuntu always makes it quite easy, so much so that it becomes annoying.
Sorry but Ark is the worst application of its kind that I have tried, it does not even allow to compress a file in several parts. How is it supposed to outperform WinRAR?
I mentioned Ark for two reasons:
1- Because it is the one I use with KDE
2- Because my needs do not entail doing what you say.
But hey, then I change Ark and say File-Roller. 😉
It depends on the compression format you use, I use 7z which allows you to split it into the size you want.
How does it improve it? In that it doesn't ask you if you want to buy the Premium version every damn time you want to unzip something, at that. It lasted me a day on my return to W7, I immediately installed P7zip, which I hope is not so insistent on its business ambitions.
Good choice, compresses better than rar and is less "commercial".
http://www.7-zip.org/, this is the one I use in windows and I never fail.
It's not for nothing but I use Peazip. And on Windows machines too. This is how I facilitate the transition.
Ark is bad enough…, but if we were talking about gnome file roller, I would tell you the same thing XD.
If I agree Ark along with web browsers are KDE's weak point.
I agree with everything you have said in this post. In my personal experience, free software has given me more satisfaction than proprietary software. I use SCRIBUS to layout a couple of monthly publications, their similar would be Indesign or Quark Express, there are some things that are not the same, but since I use Scribus I don't miss them at all. Another is the case of Inkscape that Joaclint Itsgud has shown that he has nothing to envy to his namesakes.
Less than a week ago I had to reinstall Windows 7 on a laptop that had not suffered for a long time and did not miss it. But life circumstances make it convenient for me to have W7 back. Easy? I put it under doubt. Microsoft users may not update very often, but I've been upgrading since installation. And what a bad update the damn thing. The first day, for 300 megabytes, he stayed for more than an hour, without letting me work. Turning it off the other night, 119 updates took about the same time, with the CPU heating up almost to melting point. Also, several times it has told me that this or that update has failed. I have had updates to OpenSuse that revamped all KDE, and installations of more than a Giga, and I have done them flying in comparison, without suffering on the part of my machine. The installer, by the way, sucks. It doesn't give you half the options of the simplest one-stop installer, and it takes a ridiculous number of reboots. It does not come with any built-in codec. I couldn't even unzip, and I had no drivers for any of my network cards. Easy? Today I have been trying to fix the mess that a friend has in her Vista. I've seen how ridiculous and long the process of uninstalling programs that she doesn't know what they do there is. My friend does not know much about computers and I am going to have to soak up Google to see how I clear the disk of as much shit as normal and current use of her computer has been leaving her for years. Easy? That's what it's all about, convincing you that operating an OS is easy, so that you don't try to know how it works and so they can get you all the Babylon ToolBars and all the useless applications that flood you with.
Anyway, I am not debating any more, and I am only saying that everything that has been complicated in Linux has been because I have wanted to complicate myself, and that although it is possible that I change distro, I do not change OS until they offer me an alternative credible.
This is how you speak companion, pure reality.
Health.
We will see the needs and we will be able to say if it works for you or not to use "x" system. Now, let them say that in GNU / Linux nothing works ... Well, it sounds to me like they have never used a distribution properly.
I've been using Linux for several years now, and well like everything at first, it was difficult for me to adapt, but maybe because I wanted to find all windows in linux: / .. Something that doesn't help .. Simple, when I realized that I really had to learn to using a new and different system was when it all started working for me ..
Reading the article, which by the way seems excellent to me, I remembered this image that I found there last year. I share them !!
http://i1096.photobucket.com/albums/g328/jimbrittain/weuselinuxbecause.jpg
Greetings to all!
We use Linux because it is fun to use the console, fun to use the CONSOLE !!
Yes, I am on Windows I have dual boot with Kubuntu 12.10, the windows is for games.
That's right, for some time here I realize that one of the things I like the most about Linux is that it is fun, and every time something happens to the system, it is fascinating to discover what happened, why it happened, how I am going to repair it and what is the ideology behind the operation that led the system to break »that is fun, also the Windows terminal is not even in diapers compared to any of the ones we have in Linux
Well, one thing in which OSX and Windows have a great way to go is the field of graphics, audio, and video, since the software available in GNU / Linux is not at the level of proprietary software. I use Windows to run Adobe programs among others.
For the rest I use GNU / Linux by default I have the Elementary Luna beta2 distribution for a few months without major problems updating daily.
As simple as there are people who think that a computer is like a TV, learn to use volume, change the channel and turn it on. About Mac I do not say anything because I have never used it and for the price it has I think I will use it less (perhaps with a primitive one) but Windows does everything and everything makes it easy for you, but oh friend when a bug comes in, or something not going well. In Linux I never had problems with printers, webcam, wifi, or with various graphics cards or other hardware. The only problem with the distributions that I have used has been ME, for wanting to experiment or put testing repositories (at what time I did it in Arch with how well I was doing).
But as you say, that each one use what they want. Let's give thanks that we have many options to choose from and in Linux even more with distributions for all tastes and colors.
It is not the first time that I read or see that a Linux server is switched to osx, it calls my attention that the behavior is repeated. Perhaps it is because they got tired, and going back to windows would be to go down a ladder or something like that (wasting all the knowledge acquired), then there are two paths: bsd or osx (which in a certain way are one) where to use what they have already learned + some Windows features. There are also some who use the OS as a technical challenge or to experiment and do not absorb the concept of free / opensource, so it does not matter to them.
ps: don't attack me for the block, I'm at work 😛
XD I was an osx user ..., until I tried winbugs 8.1 ... and compared the performance of osx in games with windows ..., in the end I stay with windows and linux ..., osx is very nice but in terms of drivers video is sad.
And what did you say that you preferred windows 7 over 8?
Yes, I prefer windows 7 over windows 8, and windows 8.1 over windows 8 and windows 7.
because?
windows 8.1 fixes the instability problems of the 8, it is much more fluid, the intel video drivers are finally working well, the flash looks fluid, the vlc is fluid, even the flash pepper uses gpu acceleration (uses a 0,5 , XNUMX% cpu ...), modern applications start to work, xbox music has finally become a worthy rival to spotify, im + starts working decently, etc. etc ..., small nuances that greatly improve the experience, in addition to which incredibly I have a lot more free ram.
No thanks. I continue with my Windows Vista. I'm sick of the Windows 8 Start Panel and the Windows 7 harassing Windows Update.
Windows vista? I better install Windows myself, the pc will be much more fluid.
Wow! You finally came out of the hell of OSX and its Aqua interface which is a dominatrix if we put it next to Aero, GNOME Shell and Modern UI.
I hope that Windows 8.1 improves the experience, since I continue with Vista because Windows 7 has already fed me up with its heavy updates, and Windows 8 makes me dizzy with its start panel.
Aero is no longer like that uu since they removed the aero glass .., I'm following a project waiting for them to put the aero glass .. because the flat colors look horrible: /…, with the aqua interface I have the same problems with the Linux one , I open a game that uses opengl, the pc interface uses opengl, I exit the game and the pc stays half stuck for about a minute, the same thing happens to me in Linux, for example using the amd drivers with my apu ...: / ...
If I had an nvidia I would use osx but since I no longer have it, what can I do?
I contribute my granite.
I use Linux mint 13 kde on my pc and the truth is that no problem.
Hard? Not at all, my 7 year old uses it to play minecraft, Mupen 64 and watch movies.
My wife does not understand much and yet she handles it very well.
I installed it for my sister-in-law who had never had a pc and never reneged on anything, everything works the first time and for the use she gives the machine she has plenty.
Who can say that M $ Office uses it thoroughly? 98% use the most basic that you do the same or better with opne ofice or Libre office.
In Win $ you get used to the sig - sig - sig and when you want to remember you have 20 search toolbars in the browsers.
My pocket does not give me to update the equipment every 6 months so once I found a stable distro and that it complies, I do not move from there.
In Win each new version made you sell a kidney to buy the right hard and on top of that they psychopate you that if you don't use that last released version you won't be able to do anything, you are exposed to hackers and other things.
Nowadays it seems to me that to say that Linux is difficult is to say anything; You grab a mint and it installs just to name one example.
The truth is that I don't miss win at all and the only place where I use it is in my workplace from where I'm writing now.
regards
«I speak to you from my personal experience. I am a user who uses the computer mostly for work. I work with servers, with code, text editors, browsers, I rarely play games and in my spare time, of course I enjoy a good movie. Therefore I am not demanding, I do not need advanced video cards and with Intel I have plenty. "
Clear. Your user profile is the one pointed to by linux. To the sysadmins ...
“I have been using Arch Linux for several weeks, and even updating every day I have not had any problems. What's more, I only had to "configure" a few things when I first installed and I have not had to touch anything else. The laptop I use works with everything (except for the fingerprint reader, which I haven't bothered to see if it works, I don't use it). »
I've used archlinux longer than this blog exists. You have to configure a lot, it will be your turn when you don't have such basic hardware. Buy a usb headset or better a bluetooth headset and see how nice it will work in arch with kde.
«Those who use OS X, or Windows, receive updates (or Service Pack) every thousand years and do not protest Why not do the same with GNU / Linux? If something works for you, why update? But of course, many times we update, something breaks and then LINUX DOES NOT WORK. Well, know that in other OS exactly the same thing happens. »
Okay. But Windows has much greater support for any distro. Note that XP has support until 2014 and was released in 2001. 13 Years of support… What distro can give you that? (leaving out red hat)
«Therefore and returning to the initial topic, if you want to use Windows, OS X, or some other OS because you like it, because you need it or simply because you feel like it, do it, but don't tell me at this point that it is better to use OS X or Windows because it's easier, or because everything works, because guess what: with GNU / Linux everything works for me too. »
Everything will work perfectly for you. But not all Linux users are the same. Also we return to the issue of configuration, only in linux you have to configure ...
To all this, Linux is not for everyone. Also note that most of those who support you do it from windows ... so they really have no idea what linux is because they have not used it as the main system to have experience and knowledge necessary to comment.
Who said that GNU / Linux only targets Sysadmins? That's old-fashioned statistics, very old-fashioned. I don't know about your experience with ArchLinux, but at least I haven't had to do any of the things you say. But ok, let's say you spend that work on Arch. Does the same thing happen with the rest of the distributions, especially with the ones that give you the Out the Box experience?
PLEASE!! XP support? XP has been dragging errors and security problems for 13 years, XP and its programs (cof cof IExplorer cof cof). Do you call that good support? And it is that a support for more than 5 years for me is almost unnecessary.
Please, let's do a survey among all the readers of DesdeLinux and let's see how many GNU/Linux gives problems. Of course, taking into account that they are users of a specific distribution and not those who change distros like underwear. And that they comment from Windows, well I'm sure it's due to some special circumstance, for example that they are at work.
And finally: I have been using GNU / Linux as the main and only Operating System on my computers for more than 7 years .. so the last lines of your comment are over.
Greetings and thanks for stopping by and commenting.
Who said that GNU / Linux only targets Sysadmins? That's old-fashioned statistics, very old-fashioned. I don't know about your experience with ArchLinux, but at least I haven't had to do any of the things you say. But ok, let's say you spend that job on Arch. Is it the same with the rest of the distributions, especially the ones that give you the Out the Box experience? "
Nobody said, maybe I express myself wrong. However, if you are a sysadmin of a Linux server, of course you will be comfortable using Linux. The configuration in arch linux for kde sound is not that simple. With the other distros for noobs because kde works better but we were talking about arch,
"PLEASE!! XP support? XP has been dragging errors and security problems for 13 years, XP and its programs (cof cof IExplorer cof cof). Do you call that good support? And it is that a support for more than 5 years for me is almost unnecessary. »
You put me into a Windows advocate role that has no place. That you may have used Windows xp for 13 years somewhere (which I have not done because I use arch at least I will have used it 6 years at xp or less) is something that must be recognized.
«Please, let's do a survey among all the readers of DesdeLinux and let's see how many GNU/Linux gives problems. Of course, taking into account that they are users of a specific distribution and not those who change distros like underwear. And that they comment from Windows, well I'm sure it's due to some special circumstance, for example that they are at work.»
It is that we return to the subject of needs. Your sysadmin needs are not the same as the needs of fercho and 120% linux man. In my case, I just want an operating system on my machine and nothing to restart. And my needs as a user are better satisfied in Windows than in any linux distro. Regarding those who comment from work, I mean that there are many who comment without knowing (not you that if you use linux) those who work, already use windows from 8 to 12 and from 18 to 21. At what time will they use linux enough to be able to comment with experience. Besides that they surely use windows to advance their work ...
«And finally: I have been using GNU / Linux as the main and only Operating System on my computers for more than 7 years .. so the last lines of your comment are over."
Of course this is your confusion, I was referring to those who support that Linux is for everyone from Windows.
Let's see. Yes, I work with servers, but I also use the personal computer with GNU / Linux (Arch + KDE right now). Therefore, I have stability on both sides.
In addition, I use the computer and do the same as anyone else: I surf the Internet, listen to music, watch movies, play, well, the normal thing. I do everything I could do with Windows and more.
And of course I understand that everyone has their needs, but GNU / Linux can be used by most users (of any type), and that is demonstrated in many comments.
And about those who comment on Windows, well no idea why they do it. Maybe their needs force them to. I don't know if tomorrow I have the need to use another OS, but I live convinced that GNU / Linux will always have its space on my personal PC or Laptop.
I don't know of any normal pc user who has maintained windows xp for 13 years without ever formatting it. In fact, it is the one that has given me the most problems in the workshop.
Hello Community I agree 100% with @ pandev92 I think nobody has spent 13 years uff too 2 years without having to give XP a good format with its support and pack, I have been using linux for more than 6 years, I started with Debian Lenny, then jump to squeeze, wheezy but it is not on servers or anything else it is laptop and personal pc and my work pc, and curious thing my servers (4) three use windows because accounting systems and other BD require it but only that others services in debian, and both server and laptop, and personal and work PC 100% stable and I have a sister who spends the happy day watching novels playing in short the normal of adolescence and until now there have never been problems or even concerns by linux
oh and something that I see in many places like this or similar is that Windoleros always end up in war with mac or linuxeros, damn they can't see the good things and stop saying if one is better or what other is incredible.
Greetings community and congratulations to Desdelinux Which is the best
Well ..., in Linux sometimes you have to configure, but in windows I have had many times to download driver files to the pendrive for the post installation, because the ethernet or usb wifi driver did not even come by default ..., everything has its drawbacks. osx can only directly use what has a driver .., and if not, then to fight to see if you can use a linux driver in osx.
About 13 years ago I tried GNU / LInux for the first time. Corel 1 I think it was. I didn't understand anything at the time. And the sound wasn't working for me, the modem wasn't working, I didn't recognize anything. I didn't know how to install a program, let alone compile, nor did a system that worked that way caught my attention.
Then I saw the difference, that my devices had Windows drivers, that the «next, next, finish» was the best thing that could happen to me, etc ...
And there my adventure died, I had only 10gb of hard disk and it was too much to give.
Last year I gave it a try again.
I installed Kubuntu. I didn't have to install a fucking driver and most of the programs I need are available from the software center and installed with one click.
I went further, and to get rid of all subjectivity I installed it for my mother on her PC as well.
What happened?
That a person who has no computer idea began to use it without any instructions, without any help from me and with great pleasure, since windows dragged him.
Much remains to be done, yes, but as has been said here, using free software is a political and philosophical decision rather than a technical one.
Hug!
... in my opinion and little experience working with ubuntu, archlinux and debian the biggest problem I have found is that you have to know how to read. There is enough information and in many cases they solve our problem but we are not able to realize it.
In general terms I am happy to use some linux distribution. It helps me a lot in my approach as a programmer, although I would have to do more research in other fields, for example design ...
Regards!!!
From my point of view, the only two options to change from GNU to Win or Mac alleging technical deficiencies are A: Due to ignorance, or B: Due to pure bad milk.
It has been repeated many times that the objective of GNU is not to have a system that does not fail, that does not need updates, that supports all hardware, with the best quality and the most functional software. NO, GNU looks for a system that guarantees user freedom, including privacy.
I already see myself closing a personal blog about my car stereo claiming that I am already fed up with it, because it does not allow me to heat my food, I better switch to my microwave that already includes am fm radio.
For the majority user, that is, the domestic user, who only requires internet, basic editing of images, multimedia and texts is covered perfectly.
For the specific cases that we see in the professional field, for example, the designer who with krita + gimp, has 95 - 98% of what he achieves with Potoshop, but being realistic, if you have an obligation with a client that 2-5 % matters, it is as easy as virtualizing a lightweight winpx, even more so if it doesn't load anything (audio drivers, firewall, internet, etc etc.). This starts up fast, runs smoother than wine, and being isolated from the cloud, it becomes super secure.
If it is required to use graphic acceleration, then the same but in a dualboot or on another computer, also without internet access.
Gnu is Gnu and Linux is Linux, the Gnu philosophy today is not followed by any of the major distros.
In a single line and there are already several highly debatable points.
Despite the fact that GNU is GNU and Linux is Linux, it is a true argument, it can lead us to false conclusions, such as that Mint is not a GNU distro, or even worse: "I don't use linuts, I use ubunto".
I don't really agree with calling the GNU ideals philosophy, but anyway, first we would have to specify which aspect we use to measure the greatness of a distro, and then we see if it follows the GNU "philosophy".
If we use the number of users then it turns out, oh, the horror, that Ubuntu is possibly the biggest distro of all time.
If we choose to call the mother distros great, then we see that they are not that far from the ideas of GNU.
What I was referring to in my first comment was that if someone wants to stop using GNU / Linux systems, why does it not allow them to perform very important tasks such as playing call of duty, or watching one of the 38,000 versions of gagnam without tearing? style on youtube, using your ATI card, well, congratulations, go well.
But do not say goodbye by ranting against the operating system or a particular distro, do so against AMD (or any other manufacturer, as the case may be) for not taking the trouble to produce quality drivers for a minority or release the code for that the same minority do them.
The latter applies to each and every one of the points mentioned as reasons by the ex-Ubuntu user.
I am left with one of the comments they left:
fosco_ says:
Jul 24, 2013 @ 12:44 pm
"I SELL my blog" I think that says it all ...
Years ago (and I mean many years), installing linux was an adventure. Then there were two diskettes to start the system (a slakeware was my first distro) and it was necessary to configure even the mouse (gpm I think I remember). But from that to today has changed so much that installing and tuning a distro is child's play. I went through the old Red Hat, Suse, Mandriva, Ubuntu to stay with Debian without a doubt. I have it installed in a laptop and a dual-boot desktop and I have not had the slightest problem. They share a network with windows with which they have no problem. What's more, Wheezy only asked me for the Wi-Fi password and she did everything else by herself. There is no way that installing Linux is more difficult than doing it with Windows. In terms of drivers, except for something very new (I'm talking about Debian) you don't have to walk around with several CDs to install all the peripherals, nor do you install a lot of garbage like windows but what is necessary for it to work. Some may give you a problem. But it is that in windows it is almost worse, because windows is problematic. Another thing is that the user needs to run specific programs from another operating system. That's another thing. But as an operating system, it is not that it is bad as the title of the post questions, it is that it is better than windows without a doubt. I remember that a few days ago I read that the International Space Station was switched to GNU / Linux, citing indisputable reasons. you can see the news here
http://www.omicrono.com/2013/05/la-estacion-espacial-internacional-se-pasa-de-windows-a-linux/
So that "bad" should not be.
All the best
The author has rightly said at the beginning of his article that not all hardware works the same on all machines. Neither do all users have the same predisposition to understand certain programs and it is practice that teaches teachers in all areas. There are also people who learn faster than others. And finally I say that almost all hardware is tried and tested on Windows which does Linux a disservice.
Having a good base in the use and management of Linux is a degree to be able to face the daily problems of any GNU / Linux distribution, because certainly, in the end, you always have to be studying. Even the author of the article is specified in more than one occasion to ask some doubts or problems that he ignores and is that one cannot know everything either. At least that's what it seems to me.
What annoys me the most is that users who switch from linux to another OS deny linux and criticize it, that's what I don't understand. The author of that blog has been with linux for years and now it turns out that linux is worthless garbage. So many years to realize that?
Please, say that you want to use Os xy period, but do not start saying the criticisms of a lifetime that we who passionately use Linux already know that they are false.
How about Elav.
Completely agree with you. I have used Linux for many years and I have not had any problems, all the irons work very well and if there is any detail, then consult the wikis, forums or investigate and that's it.
I have a laptop to which I have not quidato windows yet, because it has given me a bit of laziness to look for it in a way and thoroughly (there are some tips and advice that have not worked for me) how to configure hybrid Intel / AMD cards, but on one occasion it I will do.
Well, I have used linux for several years, now at work they gave me a mac, I have been using it for 7 months and it seems very good, but not everything is magic as they say, there are many programs that do not have a mac version, it is very closed and It does not allow you many things (cut and paste files ... ¬¬) if it slows down over time and has already crashed a couple of times and takes me out of the session. But the truth is that almost everything works without problems and being able to use a terminal gives you many points. I still miss things about linux, and I have virtual machines to test distros, but for my day-to-day work it is enough for me. It is a very nice hw, but to my liking it is very expensive (that's why the OS is sold very cheaply) I have not put linux only or dualboot, testing things in virtual machines is enough for me.
I put linux on my wife, my sister and several friends, none of them complain. (ubuntu and mint) I couldn't pass a designer and an architect (they don't have their tools in linux).
Win 8 is very heavy.
I try a lot of things and even so I almost never break anything in linux and I don't have to configure a thousand times or anything, I suppose you grab the way to do things, configure and suffer once, if you don't write down / automate / or you spend it breaking things, linux may not be your option.
I am a user of Win XP on my work PC, Win 7 on a laptop that I use for personal work (basically because of ArcGIS) and Ubuntu LTS or Debian Stable on my personal PC. And finally I use Android on a Nexus 7, and also iOS on an iPod.
Linux is perfect for me in almost everything I have wanted, let me explain: I am a statistician so for my main work I use free software R which in Win or Linux works great for me (faster in Linux, yes), for certain works of GIS, I used gvSIG as an alternative to ArcGis but unfortunately it did not measure up, I hope it will improve quickly, so for now I use ArcGis on Windows. Finally for leisure in general I use Linux always and generally without problems; With this preamble I want to give the following opinion:
I think there are many important things in which GNU / Linux is several steps behind, I detail:
1) Office Suite: MS Excel, MS Word and MSPPoint are the business standard, and yes, that may end its reign with google docs, and that even between versions of MSOffice there are problems (2003 vs 2007 vs 2013) but the fact is They are a standard that is poorly supported in Linux and also for those of us who make use of the advanced tools of excel, we do see a difference with LibreOffice or OpenOffice, I would like there to be better support for MSOffice in Libre / Open Office even if they don't have certain features advanced MSOffice that at the end of the account we only use certain professionals.
2) Support for mobile technology: As I said, I have a Nexus 7 and an iPod and I must say that the support for both is lousy, that there are certain options for Nexus 7 but they involve doing certain hacks that can break your system. It seems to me that the support for Android and iOS is a point in which it must be improved a lot, as the one in the article says, one wants to have things synchronized without much effort (and without necessarily having to resort to the cloud)
3) Specific programs: From what I have read in Design linux has respectable options that give excellent results (see for example http://www.davidrevoy.com/ ), but instead in CAD and GIS the options are far behind their peers in Win, they are options that are used for basic things but more is needed in production; I sincerely hope the community looks into those niches and we start to grow into better applications and not more distributions.
4) Standardization: Yes, this is a complicated topic, but I think a little order does not hurt, one often wants to follow a blog to do certain things but it turns out that the routes are not the same, as now the configuration files They are not saved in X but in Y or that the one who made the blog used another version of a library etc, and one ends up not knowing what to do and has to read more and more, and that when you want fast results is wrong, very wrong.
5) More united community: There is a lot of anger within Linux, many fanboys of Ubuntu, Arch, Fedora // Gnome 2, Gnome Shell, Unity, KDE // deb or rpm // Canonical vs Rest // experienced vs novice // and one ends up seeing in the blogs many attacks against each other and a lot of energy and time / man is wasted that (if we were united under the same objective) should be dedicated to better tutorials for all options, let me explain, the community makes a tutorial of installing certain things in R, then one does it for Debian Stable, another for Ubuntu LTS, another for CentOS, another for Arch, Debian testing, etc, etc; in such a way that you would notice a community that has many facets, debates and even internal groups, but that works together to give great support for all novice or semi-novice users who use Gnu / linux
It's been a long time, but it's something I've been thinking about for a long time and I think it's a good time to share it.
The GNU / Linux world is something complex, it is a natural system that evolves, if a project works, it survives and advances, if not then it dies. You cannot impose order on chaos, you kill creativity.
We have standards in many places, we have foundations that dictate the standards, for example: html5, those dictated by the Open Geospatial Consortium, etc.
Ordering the chaos is not killing creativity, it is simply that the new ideas respect the basis agreed by all, and if the new idea is to change what has been agreed, then the decision is to modify the standard.
I more than agree with your last point and it is that the truth is that what fucks up everything Linux, if it is not GNU in general, is standardization, and that is a strong point of Windows and of « proprietary »OS X (that disgusts me that OS gives me) unfortunately you cannot ask for such an idea, because it would simply be totally breaking with the ideology behind Linux, which personally is the one that fucks you the most, it is just a thought my truth, without the intention of offending, a greeting.
And in the same way, I agree with you, since many times, not having a standardization is a headache (so far, I have not been able to install Steam on my Debian Wheezy safely, since I even tried a "miracle script", but it was in vain).
I hope that at least Valve is somewhat considerate so that other users who use stable distros also enjoy applications for GNU / Linux without sacrificing their stability in vain.
Speaking of experiences regarding software:
SPSS (win) taught me that their version of linux is the PSPP, which is not at the level of its winds counterpart, okay, but in my opinion the [url = http: //www.r-project.org/ ] R [/ url] is better and you have many more options in statistical analysis, apart from more things you can do
R is excellent software for statistical analysis, it is better than SPSS in almost everything (at least for those of us who don't mind it doesn't use a GUI).
I think this is becoming very common, sad but each user has the right to decide.
I would like to see more linux blog post about linux for freedom 😀 which is the big difference with other OS.
And if something breaks it's almost always our fault hahaha
I use several GNU / Linux ditres, as I also continue using XP and win7, in all I experience problems in some more than others, but the truth is I could never stop using GNU / Linux.
I sell Linux blog to share a Mac, interested from € 1.500 onwards, that the latest iMac with Fusion Drive is worth its own.
Hahahaha .. is that when you want to be a troll hahahahaha
Hahahaha good !!!!
If so, then I abandon my project of acquiring the domain to ask @elav to make a version of DesdeLinux in English (My God, at that price my wallet is bursting!).
@Elav, I understand perfectly, in my case I do not have money to buy a mac but I returned to windows. Turns out I was using pear os Linux, a ubuntu-based distro with Elementary Os tools and gnome shell as the base.
I don't consider myself an expert but not a novice either, maybe it was improper, or stupid to try aida 64 with wine, but I didn't imagine that this would ruin the gnome shell session.
To make matters worse, the packages ended up breaking, luckily I had cinnamon 1.8 as an alternative environment. The truth is that fragile packages in Ubuntu do not please me, because I deleted gnome 3.6 and when I updated to 3.8 everything broke,
That is not something well seen since Ubuntu on several occasions has boasted of being an easy and clean system, even that everyone can use it and that the experience that is needed is the basic one. The distro even more robust than Ubuntu is called Linux mint, which today is not the son of Ubuntu but its direct rival.
Mint is simpler, easier to use, friendly and above all, DON'T GET FUCKED BY ANY NONLESS, now I'm on windows 8 because I'm upset with the instability of Ubuntu and derivatives, it really seems more vulnerable than windows 2000 or ME.
With the exception of Debian, Mint, Trisquel and other 100% free projects that are the only deb that are worth it for me, I have always said that Rpm have better structure and environments will be more robust especially with Fedora / Opensuse that are about to on top of Ubuntu and derivatives in system structure and package management.
Also source code distros like Arch Fugalware, Manjaro, chakra They are less vulnerable to breaking packages or graphical environment because they do not patch libraries or packages as much as Canonical does.
Well, as you can see there is a constant that is repeated: Ubuntu. But luckily we have other alternatives. 😉
I think that when you want to leave, any excuse is good and well, you quote «Icaza». Everyone is free to migrate completely to Gnu / Linux or to do it little by little as is the case with many of us, just as it is valid to go to another OS that is not Gnu / Linux, but criticizing the OS is unacceptable, to focus on the defects I think that both Mac and Windows polish themselves in that area. Worthy recognition should be given to Gnu / Linux that without receiving the support of all the hardware manufacturers such as Windows and Mac represents one more option. In my case I have had problems with the drivers in an ATI, of course the free option is not perfect but it is progressing and even so I do not judge the reason for these problems and I pull right and left against Gnu / Linux, because I am aware that you do not have the necessary support. The fact that everything is chewed on Windows and Mac does not make them better, on the contrary, more demanding to the degree of perfection should be asked of both with so much support.
The truth is that this blog has been dead for months, it is not something recent.
It makes me laugh that according to the people I know, they use windows or mac os because it is easier, but they always end up asking me how to configure X things or how to format or things like that, and I am not that you do not use GNU ´s why… and better I don´t say anything, but little did I stop helping them and I say aa is that I don´t use windows B \
I use osx, windows 7 and ubuntu, the truth is that all 3 systems have virtues and defects and although I use more os x for convenience, windows for work for specific applications and linux to explore and expand my knowledge and I must say that all 3 are to my liking As I mentioned, the 3 are operating systems that have the same objective and fulfill it in their own way and style and each person is free to use the one they want while satisfying their needs and desires, you have to be respectful of people's tastes, not everyone has to think like us (;
The truth is that I use debian on my lap and Ubuntu on the desktop and it works fine on both, on my lap I have only had problems with the broadcom wifi drivers, but nothing that has not been solved = D
I agree but that is not the important thing.
WHAT A GOOD WRITING !!
I have read many articles that talk about the same thing but with this you convince anyone.
I speak from my personal experience. I love * nix, that's why I've had Mac OS and if I liked it a lot, I say I liked it, because since they left Snow Leopard, I don't quite like the system, its hardware is excellent, yes. But when Apple decided that PPC eMacs were no longer compatible with the new, I switched to Linux. When the 32-bit Macbook can no longer put the new OS, It ended up with Linux. And a Macbook Air, it works great on Linux. Conclusion I already use pure Linux, even if they are Apple. Distributions I use. Debian, Ubuntu Fedora and OpenSuse. In that order. I love its performance and the extension to the hardware I use, for me it was clear to leave proprietary systems. Windows, I have not used it for more than 10 years and I do not need it. And Mac always seemed to me another Linux distribution that if it pays as it can be Red Hat, only that apart they sell hardware. So if another Mac crosses my path, it will surely carry Linux and OS X again. What makes me very fat is to pay for a license that I will never use, as in the case of PCs that graze your window and nobody wants to give you that money back and you go to their brand new statistic of one more computer with Windows and apart they will surely win something that the manufacturer passes them for that license that I will never use.
I've had my ups and downs in linux but at the end of the day it's the OS that I like and use. Lately I have skipped a lot of the distro and desktop but I went back to Chakra and I have not had any problem with it, everything I need is in the repo of the distro everything works 0 problems and as always I only have 2 complaints that are not fault of linux I use iOS so I would like to have iTunes and the other is that I pay a Netflix subscription and I would like to be able to use these 2 things without having to make a virtual machine for it but hey, it's not something serious really.
-If you use Linux, you are not worthy of using that iOS crap, you should switch to Android, CyanogenMod or Replicant.
-Netflix? You mean that company that managed to convince the W3C to implement DRM restrictions in the HTML5 standard?
A company like this must be boycotted. the Free Software Foundation called on people to close their Netflix accounts and send them to hell
and again linuxero intolerance comes to the fore
I use Linux for the same reason that I use iOS because it is the one I like and I feel comfortable apart from everything that I bought from Apple has turned out good and today I continue to use it the same as when I bought it.
Netflix then tell me an alternative that is better or the same and that I can pay for and that has an iOS application.
But why are you exalted? that's what I don't understand about some people who use linux but with that attitude you only make the community and people see that at least they intend to enter the linux world.
I hope you first think before writing something, and the truth is that if you write that impulsively or imagine how you do when talking to someone, the freedom of each person is to respect them, not to criticize because they do one thing or another.
by the way I told Oscar, don't get me wrong ^^
I believe that anyone is free to switch distributions as they wish. Even if you want to change the operating system. What would the world be like if one couldn't make decisions.
Regarding if Gnu / linux is really bad, the truth is that I have been using it since 2007 and it is true that at the beginning I had some difficulties (nothing that a little research will not solve) and to date I have not changed the OS I have installed distributions in many machines and to date I have not received any comments.
I think it is a matter of the person who is using it.
I do not know why the difficulties of the other OS are used so much, when you want to defend the one that we use. Each one is different in approach, and in no case are they comparable. Windows has inherited the implementation of the OS on desktops, first made by IBM, and then by countless other brands that made what were called "clones." This history has made each manufacturer negotiate with Microsoft each new component it manufactures to make the appropriate driver to work with the Operating System, when something does not work, as the user has paid, they have the right to have the manufacturer solve the problem. , or so it should be.
Almost at the same time of the creation by IBM of the pc, a company was created that also made desktop computers for the home, where the idea was to make a set so that it would be easier to use by people who did not have computer skills, That's where Aple teams were born, they continue with that idea, a set of hardware and software, and ease of use.
The GNU / Linux distributions for use on desktop computers are more recent and have joined several elements created by different people or companies, who collaborate with each other. There is no common set, and in desktop computers there is only one company, which still does not give benefits, dedicated exclusively to desktop computers, which is Canonical with Ubuntu. The GNU / Linux operating system is mostly implemented on servers, but only those who want to install it on their computers, which have not been manufactured thinking that they will have that OS. The progress in recent years has been enormous, and many of us use it every day without any problem, and many others, who can start using computers, would also use them if it were the one they were given to learn. In short, there are two clearly commercial and closed options, and on the other hand a free option that each one can configure to their liking, but it is clear that it requires the user to make the decision to install it, that if, you can test it without problems and at no cost. , which the others is impossible.
Greetings community.
If we are all supposed to be different in many ways, why can't we have more than one operating system to choose from.
Today in the linux world we can find a distro for each personality and also give it our personal touch.
Let me quote a tweet that said:
Users who try to convince you to use linux are like jehovah's witnesses to free software.
Definitely in Linux you have to read a lot when something doesn't work but let's face it: How often do you add new hardware to your pc? because to your laptop it is almost impossible to add hardware other than HD and RAM and I have never had problems with that. Now it is not that OS X does not have problems, a couple of weeks ago I got together with a friend to see a project. On my modest Acer D250 (mini laptop) I started to work with Linux by entering my Desktop (a powerful machine with Fedora and Centos virtualized) and everything was great, my friend with his Mac Book Pro could not even connect to his own wifi through that there were more than 3 devices connected ... and worst of all, I had no idea what to do to fix it ...
Although there are things that definitely have to be fixed in linux, for example the resolution of my screen that is a 42-inch LCD never works at first ... I always have to create the xorg.conf file that took time to create the correct one. now it's just copy paste and the other sometimes on network cards like Broadcom and TPLink that have given me problems.
In summary: Windows or Mac OS X are no better than Linux but if something breaks in those two OS, good luck with getting help. On the other hand Linux if something does not work for you you will find thousands of pages of information to solve it even if it is not from the distro you are using but once configured it hardly fails you.
Ditching the stability and security of your Gnu / Linux system for osx is only for the whim of being fashionable. to become izombies
Well, everyone is free to use whatever they want or need, but it makes me laugh when they say that in Linux everything is more difficult and then in other platforms or jailbreaks are made, or you have to go looking for an executable + a serial + a crack + God knows what else and if you think that the one who has the knowledge of inverse to "split" a photoshop-style software, can put it without protection or vaseline on as many sides as he wants, I'd better stay in my file (for me It is easier to make a pacman -S gimp than all the above, maybe this wrong 🙁) that at least if everything works for me and what does not work for me I fix it because among other things I enjoy and like this technology in which each day I learn more.
Another thing that makes me very comfortable in Linux is its adaptability, almost no other operating system gives it to you, you can use stable, testing, or risk your life further in almost all distros (the big ones) you can also change desktop environment without giving up your distro either for power or taste, and thousands of other things that we all know, file browsers, window managers ... etc ... ... ... ..
I do not change, whoever wants, well that it goes beautiful
I have to say that Linux if it gives problems with the hardware. Especially with the Wifi. On my Linux Mint laptop it always makes it difficult for me to install the driver, and on my desktop I have been fighting for a couple of weeks to get the wifi to work, which is in the kernel but does not work well (in fact it is a known bug that does not it seems they intend to fix).
Seriously? but what hardware do you have? the truth is that I have not had any or with more or less powerful PC's, I use arch and although it is a little extensive to install it at the beginning then everything fluid! also now has support for steam 🙂 and I can play, watch videos etc ...
The laptop is an HP, I think it goes without saying much more. On the desktop, I have a TP-Link Tl-WN821N spike, which in theory should work, but it doesn't work because the driver is bad in the kernel. So I have gone to update the kernel to be able to install the driver through backports and…. SURPRISE. Error updating kernel. A bug that is also in launchpad and that prevents the desktop from loading. To start over from scratch.
Maybe you, with GNU / Linux you have plenty, but for everyone it is not the same, it is more noticeable that you have not used windows since XP more or less, in my days when I was with w7 the updates were quite followed, at most 2 or 3 months without updating, and if the guy wants to use MAC this in all his right, within all Mac it gives enough support to its users
I love how you write it - there are problems on all systems, I use linux - ubuntu, fedora and open suse -. at work I use windows I miss it. My "two from school" kids have used ubuntu since they were little and have never had a problem at all. It is a matter of how it looks and what expectations we have, things can be done well in any system but sometimes we prefer the known.
I use kubuntu 12.04 on an asus x44h laptop and the truth is that it works 1000 wonders
Whether it's work or play, I've never had any problems, and all the hardware works 100%
In the end it's a matter of taste, but as far as I'm concerned, I don't change linux x at all
Some are lucky that all of their hardware has been compatible with GNU / Linux. But most people don't do that, many abandon GNU / Linux and go back to Windows because there is always a problem (Wi-Fi doesn't work for them, their CPU runs at full power and the machine overheats, the keys don't work. FN to control your laptop, some don't like the graphics card).
The problem happened to me that I tried each distro and in none of them I could lower the brightness of the screen, my eyes could no longer hold, after several months looking for solutions on the internet (none worked for me) I finally managed to make it work but it only works for me on ArchLinux, Debian and Ubuntu only version 10.04. For that I had to do a few tricks modifying some configuration files, so sometimes it is necessary to have more or less advanced / medium knowledge in computer science and to know how GNU / Linux works its directory structure in order to make your system work correctly. for example at this moment I have a big problem in my Arch, every time I suspend my computer, then when I summarize it, most of the time I crash in Xorg graphio mode, so far I have not caught the solution. But that's what I mean, sometimes you need to have a lot of time available to search the internet in forum for solutions, configuring things, patching with some script out there so that it works correctly. the bad thing is that time is wasted on details that affect your productivity, which is why many abandon linux and return to windows.
What if, I did not give up, and now I only use 100% GNU / Linux, I no longer plan to return to Window $, it is more and I am not even up to date on what happens in Window $, I do not care if a new one came out Win8 nor blahblahblah.
From my point of view, the choice of distros should be added time to configure and maintain. The derivatives of debian and ubuntu are mostly special to walk quietly.
The owner of the page if he wishes to change this in all his right. I am sure that he also contributed to GNU / linux in his own way
Easy: if the domain is cheap, they buy it to make an English version of DesdeLinux.
Returning to the point, you have perfectly mentioned the problems that many GNU / Linux users who have just left Windows have, since many times, most of the programs that come out for GNU / Linux tend not to be adapted to Windows users or not fully meeting the needs of each user (such as those who learned to use graphic design programs, for example).
As for Windows, the one that ironically has not caused me major problems has been Windows Vista with its updates, since it barely touches the 10 MB size of updates, so it does not cause me major inconvenience, except the typical ones that it has to I already know how to solve them.
I have been in the world of GNU / Linux for almost 6 years, but the distro with which he left me at his feet has been Debian, which I learned what simplicity, robustness and quality mean in an operating system, which is why I use mostly for programming and it works wonders for me. Another distro for which I have been interested again has been Slackware, which I will expand on the installation procedure and the troubleshooting that may be for later. In short: what is needed to enjoy this operating system is nothing more and nothing less than the will to do it, and time. If you do not have these two factors, then you will not fully enjoy it.
I hope this does not harm the GNU / Linux user community and its contributors, as I have felt quite comfortable with the distro I am commenting on.
Now please, if you want to use a decent UNIX derivative, I suggest you use OpenBSD, as it is bulletproof stability.
I remember that blog very well, and as they said above, its owner was always Ubuntero. It was also at one time, until the Maverick version, which for me from then on went to hell.
In a laptop that I have as a server, I have Archlinux, because it is installed with the minimum. I had a bit of a struggle to install it completely, due to the Wi-Fi issue, since that is how it connects to the network, but for now it is working as I wanted. At work I have another laptop that has an old version of Ubuntu, but we have it there only to watch videos, since it has a broken keyboard and our job is to keep a plant running that is with another computer.
On my desktop, the one I always use, I have a version of mint installed and for now it works very well for me. I had a problem that the graphic server would freeze from time to time, but it is something that I solve by searching the network.
Well, as the author of this post said, the user adapts to what comes or in this case, I have adapted to the programs that are in here. If I have to retouch a photo, I do it with Gimp. Make an office document, use libreoffice. The pdf reader, is for me, much better than the acrobat.
And as for mac, it is very difficult to use a system and equipment, where everything is completely closed. Imagine that the latest mac or you can not change the memory, since they are soldered to the team.
Better I stick with linux and a more open and standard system.
Well, I will tell you about my experience, I am a geophysicist and I am dedicated to oil and mining exploration, generally in these areas private software owned by certain companies is used (I will not say names), specifically software for signal processing, GIS , CAD, Remote Sensing, seismic processing with CUDA, InSAR, and Statistical mounds; obviously with very high costs, and many restrictions; We have looked for alternatives to cover our needs (both free and proprietary), we tried Unix (PC-BSD), Mac (some 27-inch iMac), also with some Sun workstations (Ultrasparc 5) that we had abandoned, and of course with Linux ( Xubuntu 12.04.2 and Fedora 17 scientific spin), the latter gave us the best solution, specifically Xubuntu since it provides us with all the necessary tools to do our work practically "out of the box", we do signal processing in Scilab + gfortran (with Geany as IDE) + qtiPlot, in GIS we use Quantum GIS + SAGA GIS, we use Nvidia Quadro cards for seismic processing with CUDA, and all the statistics with LibreOffice Calc + Rcommander; In conclusion, I can tell you that Linux works quite well on all our hardware, it allows us to do the same as Windows with private software created by large companies without the license restrictions and the high cost.
Excellent experience .. U_U