Linux No wifi. Still.

I'm very aware that there aren't a billion people using linux on the desktop, so I feel quite safe in assuming that you're talking about Android, which has so little in common with something like Ubuntu as to be a total irrelevance. Really - must try harder!

Such as? Actually, I've a funny feeling that I understand the basics of it more than adequately, and what you're actually trying to do here is make some sort of special pleading. If the concepts that underpin the software mean that it's unreliable, difficult to use, and that people aren't willing to write drivers for it, those concepts are mistaken - and that is in fact the case.

What you're doing here, if you step back and take the long view, is taking something that's really rather bad and trying to claim that it's OK for it to be bad because of the way it's made. Er, no, make it differently, so it can be less bad.

In the main, I do. But for your position to be consistent, you have to guarantee me that any time you find someone considering linux, you have to tell them how disappointed they're likely to be, how poorly it's likely to work, and how much trouble they're likely to have.

I have a feeling you won't do that. I have a feeling, in fact, that you'll tell them it's all lovely and wonderful and made of rainbows, and then when their sound hardware doesn't work, or whatever it is on that particular occasion, you'll start up again with the yeah-but-no-but-yeah-but-excuses.

But that's just a feeling.

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No one is saying that - you are the only person saying it's bad, everyone else here who uses it says it's good, or admits they don't understand it enough to want to use it, except you, who claims to understand it perfectly yet you can't seem to ever get anything working on it.

 

Ahh i do apologies, although you didn't ask for how many people used it without trouble on the desktop you actually said "I hereby require you to provide several million examples"

But as you can see i preempted your mistake so i also provided the estimated (46 million) desktop users of Linux, is that sufficient for you?

Now how about coming up with those facts or evidence to backup your spurious claims.

In the main doesn't mean not using it and using Windows instead though does it, so the question remains why do you still bother with Linux?

I also don't have to guarantee you anything, if someone says they are considering Linux and asks for my opinion then i will give them my honest answer, until such a time i will allow people to make their own choices and form their own opinions.

Your judgment of other people is as flawed as your understanding of Linux.

Ohh and will you please learn how to quote other peoples post, or is that asking to much based on your understanding of what you copied and pasted into your terminal - without actually knowing what it does

 

I did?

 

*prepares for a time-consuming discussion of semantics*

 

I'll semantic you

 

Let me slide into something more comfortable and I'll be right with you nurse.

 

...quite, Shirty. I'm not going for it!

 

That's enough I think