Linux is everywhere. It runs your car radio, your microwave, your ADSL router is probably a stripped down Red Hat. These are things you want to work no matter what.

The fact that certain people like Canonical have spent so much energy packaging up the Gnu-Linux system as a desktop environment is a noble cause, certainly, but that’s not it’s beauty. Can you imagine if Windows 7 ran your microwave or the car-park pay meters?

They are completely different things and this religious argument is ridiculous.

People at my office always say “My Outlook Express blah blah blah” when we use the full version. Then they say “My Windows blah blah blah” when they’re talking about Word. Then they say, “My email is so slow” when they are using Outlook to download emails. Then they’ll misuse the words “backup” “file” “save” “network” and a host of other words. Ha! I even had a director once say to me, “Will this program run on an IBM?” while pointing to his Dell Windows Vista computer. Yeah, yeah, I know he means IBM-compatible, but c’mon! When was the last time you heard someone under the age of 50 say that?

It’s as brain dead as people using the term “hard drive” for their PC box.

It’s actually very hard to keep the text if there ‘is an error.’ Because the text never makes it to the program, it’s only sitting on your machine. So it’s really your browser that removed it from the cache.

Also worth mentioning would be registry cleaning. The afore mentioned ccleaner also does registry cleaning.

Regardless of all the tricks, eventually you will be better off to re-install windows from scratch (including reformatting).

So anyhoo, let’s cut some bullshit on Linux, shall we?

Unless you’re running Gentoo (and who knows, maybe even then), you are NOT running your Linux distro as-is for the year or three Windows folks go through before their systems slow down. Six months in, chances are you’re going to have to do a system upgrade because your fucking package manager hasn’t updated SHIT since the last OS update. Meaning unless you wanna add potentionally system-fubaring repositories/packages or compile your own goddamn software, you have to wipe and install your OS every six fucking months. FIND me a Windows user who does this and has a slow system.

Now, I’m well aware that Linux has some awesome advantages (hardware requirements that have either barely gone up or outright stopped in the last 5-10 years, depending on what you’re doing, rock-solid stability if you’re not using 3D hardware). I’ve got a Linux box downstairs and an OpenSolaris box (I love ZFS, the day it gets a rock-solid, independently verified stable release on Linux is the day I drop OpenSolaris like a bad habit) next to it. While my desktop runs Windows 7 (I have some funny system setup edge cases that make Linux a headache on it), said desktop has a snapshot on the fileserver (for quick restoration using dd over SSH on a Linux LiveUSB drive) and the hard drive it’s on doesn’t store ANY important data. However, Linux comes with a variety of disadvantages which basically amount to a lack of unity amongst its development community. It’s getting better, mind you (leagues better every year), but we’re still a ways away from “just install Linux” being anything that RESEMBLES good advice.

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