by BBOSAK2143 » Sun Dec 29, 2013 8:08 pm
The thing that really makes me fall head over heals with Linux is the fact I do not have to have all these drivers disks! You know we were all sold a bill of goods when these CDs and DVDs came out how indestructible they are! Is not true at all, I have babied a lot of disks and they are basically shot! So, with these OS's I build, I simply put all the programs in I will use or want. Is on a flash drive and if I dump, boom can be back up in about 2 hours max! Is not at all true with Windows! I have imaged Windows before, in fact still have it. How did it work??? Stunk! Some reason Windows can not do its partition properly so if I load that image it dumps in about a month! Of course I did that long before I heard of the Linux way to do it. Have no desire to do that, I did do some of that at school, but I got spoiled with Linux! I am a real sucker for coloring! Gnome has held me captive for quite a long time! Since I started doing these themes, I hardly use the other desktops! Just here and there to play games that are not Gnome based. Hate to say at times Gnome is a disaster area when it comes to things that are not closely related to it! Of course when you understand how many responsibilities Gnome has, then you could see why. If Windows had this many responsibilities, would probably blow up the computer!
Back in 2000, a buddy of mine(Mike) built my first computer. He had a few years of College, just as I got done with this past May. He built me a real trainwreck! Now one would be upset, but I was not! Why??? When I had to figure how to keep that thing going, I learned many things! While he was messing around with porn pics, I was learning how to build my next computer! I also had another friend, who was a bit like TheeMahn when it comes to knowing the pieces of the computer. Ironically, his name was Bob. Everyone called him Bobby. He was about 55 and I was 40. Bobby had messed with the commodores all the way up! Of course, he did stagnate with Windows, but mechanics wise he helped me build. I was so scared to fire that first one up. He just told me "Plug it in, it will work!" Loved his confidence and was he right!!! Now is like nothing to me! Can not even count how many I put together since '02! Will always remember that first time and all Bobby taught me and the countless hours I spent studying how to put one together! So, the funny thing is a few years later when the 2.5GHZ processor came out and I promptly built myself a beauty, Mike came over and saw it run! His jaw dropped and 2 weeks later he was calling me one evening asking me the exact parts I used and how I did it!!!! Someone else might have told him so BS since he had caused me some heartaches, but no, I did the right thing and just let bygones be bygones and told him the proper things to do! He wound up building himself a decent one just as I had!
Back in those days, I was fiddling with XP! I remember all those blasted betas as I was also a beta tester for them! XP was also the last OS they asked for any of its users to beta test, which was also a very disgruntling thing. See on Linux, that still happens! People will build one, list as a beta, find the hassles then fix it right! I guess Windows now feels they do not need to know what its customers want, so I also add that to what will eventually knock them out! Now what I really admire about you Xxjoker is your ability to just move to another OS much faster than I ever did! I spent about 10 years being upset with Windows until I woke up! I sat there believing everyone that Linux was only command line and had to be a genius just to use it!!! That may have been the case when it first came out, but has been no where near that for at least 5 years! So I woke up 2 years ago and said "I need a change!" Besides that, I only had one copy of Win7 and since I dumped quite a few times on that, they hand ownership over to my wife!!! Now, I say "Who bought the disk???" Was not right of them, but since I was going to College, I knew I could find an alternative and understand how to use it. Shawn would not be that lucky! See, I thought when I bought the disk would be alright as we only have two computers, so the OS for both would do! Wrong!!!! When I called MS on the phone, they wanted to charge me $200 for another license so that would have been a total of $400 for both computers to run that OS! That is just pure greed! As the economy has given the short end to many people, am sure many others have done the exact same thing I did and went OS hopping to find something else.
At first I tried Unix, but unfortunately I could not get any wireless to run. Now we all know, Unix is Linux's ancestor so I then went to Linux! I was amazed how quickly I was able to hook up to the net and the speed of the browser! Sure, I was befuddled for a while on what to use for programs! Eventually after arriving on Ultimate, that was taken care of completely!!! Will say it a million times over that TheeMahn knows exactly what people want to do and use!!!! How he can have that uncanny knowledge is just another fact that proves his brilliance! TheeMahn also reminds me of Bobby, only difference is he is just a hair younger than me. His knowledge, drive and help pushed me forward just as Bobby did! He gave me the confidence to assemble my own OS and there is just now way to ever thank him for that, but forever I will try!!!! Since, I have Verizon, there are limitations with speed, so I unfortunately can not download the newest Ultimate or else I would! I have learned quite a bit, but believe me have a long long way to go! My OS is built on the same principles, but there is some small flaws, unlike its counterpart, Ultimate! Comes from lack of knowledge. In time will get better, but for now am pleased this thing can run all day and do some incredible feats and take fairly close to the same amount of abuse I gave Ultimate! I put that OS through the wringer!!! I did some real stupid things as to my lack of knowledge and finally took it down in 6months! Now that is the highest amount of time I ever got out of Windows! Windows to get it that far was like walking on eggs!!! I watched the downloads, did not install anything I did not need! Ultimate was the direct opposite! I installed everything under the sun!!!! I fiddled with kernels and header files, you name it and that thing kept running! Actually, when I re-installed was just due to the fact I messed up a few programs. The OS was still working! Windows now that thing always looses that ntdlr file!!!! I think someone needs to glue that stupid file to the OS!!!!!
I have seen that probably a hundred times! I have also toasted somewhere around 10 hard drives with that OS! I swear, installing that OS is like taking acid to the hard drive and melting it! These Linux OS's, you can install, re-install probably a million times before anything happens!!!! Honestly with Windows I can hear the hard drive sounding like Rice Crispies!!! You know snap, crackle and pop! These Linux OS's I do not hear a thing besides the fan motors!!!! Meant to say, you know I never did get that Win7 to update!!! Of course after the Anti-Virus adventure is toast anyway!!!! Is another thing that just widdles that OS to nothing!!!! Put an antivirus in there and is close to just installing a virus!!!! I know sounds drastic and mean, but am being very very truthful and honest! I have tried countless AV's on Windows and eventually one day that OS just gives out, file I mentioned goes out fishing!!!! This thing, I run clamav and have no troubles with it. Worse thing with clamav is always make sure you get the latest gui or you'll see tears in the terminal!!!! Had to kid about it as sure get a charge out of some Linux error messages!!!! They are more human and down to earth! Windows is too high and mighty in terminal lingo!!! Sure at points there are messages, I spend time to figure out, but least can generally find information. Windows, good luck!!! I have been to techs and forums and most just shrugg and say "I don't know, it's just the way it is, maybe next version will be better?" Been down that road since Win 95 and basically looks prettier, but is still the same ineffective system!!!
It's like I always say "You just can't paint over rust!" The underlying system is faulty and needs an overhaul, but will never happen as greed prevails! Just throw some bondo on it and repaint, "No one will know the difference. They will think it is great! After all we always tell them, we are!" They come in with their phone commericals and act like is the only one to get, just like they do with their OS!!! In my book is wrong! Who has the experience with phones???? Linux! Windows has to stop trying to cut everyone down, move forward and actually make an OS! If they do not, they're going down! My prediction stands at the end of next year MS will announce they are getting out of OS's and pursuing XBOX! I feel that is their true place is life as they seem to only understand people like to play video games and surf the internet! So, will surely be their demise if they continue to not understand what their customers want! Linux will prevail at the head of the table since they always ask all of us "What do you want???? Even if Windows somehow moved past Linux, I would not go back! I simply can not condone greed of their kind and never could! I constantly, beat myself thinking "How did I get roped into Windows that long????" I was a sucker! Now, I spend hours just trying to learn new things with an OS, designed after the most brilliant developer, TheeMahn!!!!
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