Linux is Dull
I have to get something off my chest, I?m just going to come right out and say it - Linux is agonisingly dull.
Yes, yes I?m aware of its history and how it shaped the internet/applications, but it?s painful. Do I care what a Kernel is? Do I care if some nerd with milk bottle glasses, bad acne and no girlfriend has made a L33T!!1!!1 new rotating mega clock function ? that?DUM DUM DAAAAAAA?reads the time.
I like to think of myself as an average user of computers and the internet in general, I personally don?t know what?s ?wrong with windows? or how they are supposedly taking over the universe like some kind of disease ? but some people seem to.?
I recently had a huge argument with a friend who is a self confessed ?code nerd?.
Now, I?d like to make one thing abundantly clear ? I do not doubt her intelligence or anyone else who can write this stuff, its impressive that people can hold that much knowledge in their brains, but when she started to inform me that Windows was turning my brain in to mush due to its ?self contained lack of adaptability? or something to that effect, I feel I have to defend the average computer joe.
I explained to her, like a huge majority of user?s, I use computers for fun. I like to play games, I like to look at funny videos on the net and I like things to be hassle free. Point and click, if you will.
I don?t want to have to worry about whether my database v3.667hge is going to splice in to my Ubuntu-debian-red hat 7.109-iou and blow the legs off my computer table.
I want things to be non-difficult like television or a light switch. You switch it on, and it works. Good times. I like things easy, because you should keep the hard stuff for work and the fun stuff for when you?re chilling listening to music on a media player that doesn?t force your PC to be re-booted every time you switch it on because of one botch line of code.
When I was done ranting, and took a breath, she practically had tears in her eyes. You?d think I?d just kicked her baby by the way she was looking at me.
Do I feel bad for rubbishing her favourite thing: maybe a little? But when it?s the other way round, Linux fans are remorseless vampires sucking on the blood of the innocent PC/laptop user.?
Perhaps I should adopt a live or let live policy, but to be honest, I?ll be sticking with Windows because I never need to worry that my clock is wrong.
And, as if I need to validate my point that Linux sucks ? typing ?Linux sucks? in to Google returns 284,000 pages. Stick that in your pipe, and smoke it.
