[OT] Was: totally satisfied :D

[Mehrdad]

On Wednesday, 19 September 2012 at 21:30:58 UTC, Nick Sabalausky 
wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 20:49:58 +0200
> "Mehrdad" <wfunction at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wednesday, 19 September 2012 at 17:29:17 UTC, H. S. Teoh 
>> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 12:02:24PM +0200, Timon Gehr wrote:
>> >> The issue is that in one case you know how to fix it and in 
>> >> the other one you do not (and you care less about it 
>> >> because you prefer to think Windows is superior as it is 
>> >> what you use '99% of the time'),  not that the problems are 
>> >> inherently (un)fixable.
>> >
>> > Yeah, that's one of the things that irks me about Windows 
>> > culture. It's touted as being "user-friendly" and "easy to 
>> > use", etc., but actually it requires just as much effort as 
>> > learning to use Linux. People complain about how Linux is 
>> > hard to use or things break for no reason, but the same 
>> > thing happens with Windows -- you either do things the 
>> > Windows way (which requires that you learn what it is), or 
>> > you quickly run into a whole bunch of gratuitous 
>> > incompatibilities and bugs that nobody cares about because 
>> > you aren't "supposed" to do things that way.
>> 
>> 
>> Yeah, they're "fixable" by your definition all right.
>> 
>> It's just that when you ask people how, either no one you ask 
>> knows why, or they try to convince you that you're an idiot 
>> for even thinking about asking."
>> 
>> Relevant examples:
>> 
>> It's next-to-impossible to go on a forum and ask about fixing 
>> a boot-sector GRUB install without some fool coming along and 
>> diverting the entire thread into "Why the hell isn't GRUB 
>> installed on your MBR?"
>> 
>> When you have a (God forbid!) space character in your 
>> directory/file names and some program chokes on it?
>> "Stop putting spaces in your file names."
>> 
>> When you ask how to make a passwordless account or how to 
>> obtain permanent root privileges?
>> "Are you insane?!"
>> 
>> When you ask if there is a defragmenter for Linux?
>> Some fool comes along and says "Linux doesn't need 
>> defragmentation!!!!!!!!!"
>> 
>> When you ask why the fonts are blurry?
>> "It's just different, you're just picky. Get used to it."
>> 
>> When you ask why the touchpad is so darn hypersensitive?
>> "Modify the source code."
>> 
>
> Yea, as much as there is I like about Linux (and I intend to 
> switch to it for my primary system), I've always considered the 
> "culture" surrounding it to be one of Linux's biggest 
> liabilities.
>
> You should have seen the shitstorm I had to put up with when 
> inquiring about a text-mode editor (so I could use it through 
> SSH) that worked more like Kate/Gedit and less like 
> VI/Emacs/Nano. Of course, I did make the mistake of 
> *mentioning* the forbidden word: Windows. But still, I mean, 
> grow up people: it's a fucking OS, not a religion.


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