Comments on: My appreciation

By: c704710

c704710 — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 01:37:33 +0000

Over 3000 Linux games (that’s GAMES, not emulators, not engines, just games). Published and developed by over 100 entities. Including the likes of Activision, Atari, Bioware, Interplay, IBM, id Software, Electronic Arts, Maxis, Google, Epic Games.
Underground indeed.

By: Rivon

Rivon — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 21:24:11 +0000

*faster than any GUI

By: Rivon

Rivon — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 21:23:50 +0000

MM: to point 3 – OMG, where do you live. Yes, you can use “apt-get install firefox” (and by the way it’s much faster than any guy) but you also have the Synaptic (or it’s equivalents in different distros), if you so badly need a GUI.

By: Blacksheepboy

Blacksheepboy — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:45:34 +0000

Seeing as how we’re passing along virus stories, I had some old junkie computer that hadn’t been reformatted since 2001. It had several trojans and a nasty ad virus thing since then, but CCleaner and Spybot (along with manually deleting fake [infected] DirectX files), nothing has ever done harm to the thing. The computer only got infected in the first place because my family did silly things like download fake ad-blocker programs.

By: MM

MM — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 08:00:34 +0000

Waco: where do you get those statistics from? Norton? Mckafee? Kaspirsky? or whatever those companies are named.

By: Gnoblar

Gnoblar — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 03:27:37 +0000

I have Windows 7.

It works fine, nothing has ever gone wrong.

It has never slowed noticeably down.

It’s called taking care of it.

By: Waco

Waco — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 02:21:53 +0000

>1. I don’t care about security. Security threats are like terrorists, mostly just imagination.
Only there are somewhere around 2 million computers in the US on botnets sending out spam/stealing information/etc right now

So no, it’s not actually like that at all

By: RungAaz

RungAaz — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:30:43 +0000

In my opinion all IDE’s suck.
The only IDE, which was awesome was Dev-C++ from Bloodshed, but still too bugy.

Now I use Notepad++ as Editor and GCC as Compiler.
I write my own Makefiles and I’m compiling through DOS-Prompt using MinGW’s make.
Programming never was so easy.
No more tons of useless buttons and all that GUI stuff.
Only the Editor, the DOS-Prompt, the Compiler and me.
At least 5 times faster in getting done as if I would use an IDE.

By: MM

MM — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:02:48 +0000

Visual Studio is an IDE and gcc is just a compiler.
I guess I’m comparing VS against gcc + all IDE’s combined

morgan: Eclipse… netbeans… its so horrible. Don’t get me started… Yes I’ve used them a lot. I’m not a MS fanboy, I’ve used every c/pascal compiler on the planet maybe except codewarrior.

Now people think they can use a computer when they really can’t

Isn’t that a good thing? Shouldn’t everybody be able to use a computer? My grandma wants to use the internet, what OS would be faster for her to learn?

1. I don’t care about security. Security threats are like terrorists, mostly just imagination.
2. True
3. Whatever package redistribution program you always get to type something on linux in the terminal. WTF? Why do I need to type anything, this isn’t the 1960’s.
4. Not an issue
5. Never ever have I seen a system related issue on Windows 7, it’s always the 3rd party software.
6. Why wouldn’t it be able to get to safemode? What about bootable disks?
7. Yes this is my philosophy too. But you need to step aside for a moment and think clearly. Linux just isn’t working, we need to invent something new that will live up to our philosophy.
8. They also have the best research teams and the greatest computer science minds working for them all publishing their research papers for free.

The last time I had a virus was in the DOS era.

By: RungAaz

RungAaz — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 18:59:15 +0000

Word!