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Linux is fucking brilliant.

I hate microsoft SO much.... You have no idea how much I'd like to nuke that shit hole off the face of the planet..... Years of my life have been pissed away, taking care of that REALLY SHITTY software......

@Life_N_Times_of_Shane_T_Hanson: I feel you mate. It's a really shitty OS. Unfortunately the world doesn't feel the same way as we do :(

@abi: Linux has improved in leaps and bounds and you can basically download an ISO and install it off a USB stick, and you can have a pretty good operating system with all the bells and whistles... All the office software etc.. The easiest way to run it is a dual boot, and have it on an external SSD or plain external disk... and then use both until you feel like Widoze is a useful accessory and Linux is your main OS... I view Microsoft as being shit software micromanaged by a bunch of retarded fat bitches from the lesbian HR dept, who are pilled out of their fucking minds on head meds... It was me who created the term, "Crapware" to describe microsofts "everything"... But with Linux - it ticks over and the ONLY real problems I have ever had with it were from my own seriously fucking with it, beyond my comprehension... But those problems came with Microsft by default... and lots of them. The main issues are - I hate bells and fucking whistles and am basically a humorless prick..... I want a microwave with an on button, power level, timer with a bell and that's it. I fucking HATE microwave ovens with 44 buttons on the front panel... Well Linux comes with a variety of interfaces... I like the XFCE versions - because they are a simple menu driven interface without abstract heiroglyphs and all sorts of distracting bullshit.... I use computers to get shit done, not to be entertained by them... The closer I am to a pencil and school exercise book it is, the happier I am. So the XFCE variants work for me. There are "types" of Linux - go with the most popular - the most updates, and forums and support etc... e.g. Ubuntu, Mint, etc... they all have variations in them... but at the end of the day are you getting your work done or fucking around with rhetorical discussions about which screen savers are the most progressive..... and like I had ONE laptop, with Microsoft ????? somewhere around 2005, and the swap memory was thrashing the hard drive to death and the whole thing was just going flat out - just doing nothing... except chewing up power and it was so fucked, it was at 90% resource useage - doing nothing.... opening a document - and that took like 10 minutes.. and well when I changed over to Linux - cause I had just had enough of this fucking microsoft crap, the resource useage went to around 3.5 - 5% and except for the glowing screen you could hardly even tell that it was on.... Fucking Amazing... ALL of the software has improved since then - everything has gotten so much better... and it's really moved away from ONE program having 10 bits on 10 different websites and all the fucking aroound to gather them and install them, to get the one program to run as a very powerful file manger, and now most things are comprehensive..... and there is a lot of really good shit out there..... Microsoft really is for brain dead fat bitches in the HR dept... who have the IT dept coming around showing them how to plug their mouses back in etc..

@abi: Depending upon what you need to get done there are SOME specialist programs that don't come in Linux versions eg. Auto CAD, so unless your using specialist software for specific things, and it runs only on Windows, you can use Linux for everything else and or there are lots of free software that is remarkably good, AND or there are some places that are making very good software that you can pay for outright or subscribe too... I prefer the purchase outright - rather than internet connected only shit... because if the internet connection goes out, so does your software....

@Life_N_Times_of_Shane_T_Hanson: Ubuntu just pissed off a lot of their fanbase because of the same becoming big micromanagement crap. I'm thinking of either solus, mint or nix os

@abi: Some of their fan base is pissed off.... they might have a) good reasons, b) pissy reasons or c) both... and how much were for the changes, and how much were against the changes and what were all the changes? I made many big changes to the Open Office Suite, and it was like dealing with the fucking stupidest of cunts.... e.g. I had some 2000 fonts saved up from all the programs and give aways on computer magazine CD's etc.. and there was NO font embedding... So you make artwork or documents etc. and then you send them to the printers, save them and go to open them on other computers and all that meticulous formatting in that font, all gets erased and it defaults to the system font, which totally fucks up the layout and formatting - like if your publishing a poster or a book, or have an indexed document.... Dropped Capitals etc... Then page 210 in Times New Roman becaomes page 186 in Sans Serif.... There goes all your formatting, and Using Playbill in 250 point font for a poster, dedaults to San Serif 12 point on another machine....... You want to see the fights I had to have to get FONT EMBEDDING as a function in the Open Office Suits and just how many stupid cunts there really are in the Open Sores movement... So having lots of fuckers screeching to the high heaven is one thing, but is it a legitimate concern or is it just pissing and moaning etc... OR both...

Do you have a link to the actual changes / controversy about them?

Yeh I can't be fucked whinging about them.... https://ubuntu.com/desktop/flavours Xubuntu... Or whatever floats your boat.... And everything that runs in every other version also runs in Xubuntu too..... There are just variations in what is in the install..... If your doing office work, you get the office stuff, if your doing studio / mucic / graphics you get the studio version... etc...

@Life_N_Times_of_Shane_T_Hanson: It's basically the age old, Ohh it's run by a company now and they don't care about the customers anymore! problem. Here's a unbiased opinion from a guy who uses ubuntu servers for his work : https://youtu.be/nmBT7nmonFY

@abi: Ubuntu - the Founder Mark something - they got Linux out of the stone age and into the commercial realms - and made it accessable to everyone.... and for free.

There is a lot of pissing and moaning - but it's the biggest distribution for one reason, it works and works well and people want to get on with their lives and get their work done without enormous amounts of fucking around with the OS in the process. I am not going to continue with this pissing and moaning bullsht and debate. I use it, it works, I am happy I am getting my projects done. The OS is reliable and stable. I really don't give a fuck for this debate with you over this OS or that OS.... You can either install or not.

@abi: (almost) EVERY ONE hated the microsoft software - endless drefragging, all the malware checkers, cache memory always filling up, buggy buggy software - fucking unbelievably BAD software... Yes well at 5am this morning I sat up in bed, stroked my pussies and said, "Mark Shuttleworth - he's done it. He along with lots of help and hard work, has done it. He has created a HUGE Linux based sofware company that is giving Microsoft a big fat black eye.... I am happy with the software... it's robust, it's stable, it's rock solid...... and I am so glad to not have to use Microsoft Software any more.... Microsoft's offering got as good as it ever did, at XP and Office 2003.... After that they just started dumping bullshit software like Millenium onto the market - which was a fucking abortion and Office - they just started their big keep everyone coughing up cash on the never ending upgrade cycles - where essentially fuck all changed, except they kept on putting in stupid interfaces, instead of menus and the fucking interfaces didn't work either... I was gifted some MS Office 2007 CD's and I really tried hard to use it - but it was SO fucked... I threw the CD's out and I saw through the scam they were pulling.... There were no "upgrades" in a technical sense, where the improvement was "an improvement" - like from a land line phone cable to Wi-Fi, all they did was use a different colour plastic on the land line and give it a bullshit name... and called it the new and improved version and charge you double in the upgrade from the OLD version of MS Office to NEW version of MS Office.... Fuck Microsoft...