I love Mac OS but the cost of entry is as steep as a mountain and I feel like the times I've had to get my iMac fixed can't be counted on 1 hand.
Linux is great but the support for it with apps is terrible, even though the ones we do have on there are good.
Windows has the best app support around and is probably the most versatile of the three but it can hog resources a lot and it kind of eats RAM like a chicken dinner at times.
Each of the three has their strengths and weaknesses. I do kind of like Linux and Mac OS better than Windows but I don't really think I have a favorite anymore.
Interestingly the only third party OS I've never had trouble with is the one my cousin invented, but it's laggy as hell and doesn't really do anything. So, limited usage.
The only reason we have any Windows servers at work anymore, aside from development machines I use, is that one application (*cough*quickbooks*cough*) is a bitch and won't work properly except on Windows. The desktops are Windows for much the same reason Mom's is...we don't want to retrain people, and Macs are now way too expensive, especially considering how much Windows 7 improved things.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
As it is, "Linux" is such a broad category that you can find things that are relatively easy to use, insufferably complex and opaque, or pretty much anywhere in between.
It seems Ubuntu and its main variants (Xubuntu, Lubuntu, etc.) are as massively popular as they are primarily because they make it relatively painless for those who just want a basic desktop.
^Regardless of what you use though, you're expected to know how to command line things. Which...I don't. Maybe that's different for some of the more user friendly versions, I dunno.
I still have no idea why my old high school opted to upgrade all our computers from Windows XP to Windows Vista, or in the case of the computers that were in the computer lab, downgrade them from Windows 7 to Windows Vista.
Yeah. A lot of the reason Unix in general is so impenetrable isn't because of ripe-smelling geeks not wanting to cash in their geek cred, but because Sun, AT&T and IBM got in a pissing match in the late 1980s, AT&T ended up suing a bunch of people, and nothing got done for years. Not until Linux and FreeBSD gained steam around 1995 did the ice start breaking, and Microsoft already had a massive head start with Windows 95 by then.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
My college has been replacing all our ancient Windows XP computers (they were IBM; that should tell you something about their age!) with thin clients.
Thin clients? I guess they're RDP-ing into a central Server 2008 box or something? That can work OK if the network is fast; I do it all the time at work.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
My only real complaint with the thin clients is less of a technical one and more to do with how our computer lab is set up.
The lab has two centralized printers. When we were using the XP PCs, everything you print would have a separator sheet with the designation of the workstation you were sitting at--"Blue 34", "Grey 16", etc.--and the lab assistants would take your printouts from the printer and sort them into "mailboxes" (for lack of a better word) arranged by workstation.
With the thin clients, since you're actually, y'know, printing from the server, the separator pages don't have your workstation's name but instead your username. So you have to go up to the desk by the printer and ask for your printouts, which is much slower and less convenient.
This is only sort of a browser, but it has my favorite browser name ever. Just because it's so stupid.
Also I am probably the only person in the world who uses Maxthon (a chinese derivative of Internet Explorer) for anything. Well. That's a lie, I don't use it, but I have it on my computer.
I also want to see if I can't get the browser that comes with the RedStar OS, just to see if it really does have a built-in firewall like I've heard.
Oh yeah, and I remember using iCab (Das Internet-Taxi) back when I still had my LC 475 to play with...a browser for classic Mac OS that could actually run on a 68040. Old school, man. XD
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Wikipedia's Android app could technically be called "a browser that can only browse Wikipedia", but even that seems more useful than the thing you just linked.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Also, does anyone actually use Ubuntu Software Center? Everyone I know who uses Ubuntu (myself included) just relies on apt-get, because c'mon, apt-get isn't exactly difficult to use.
"If you want by rise behind the masses outside the field from combat, then this is the sword you should have without your hand or strapped above your belt. Its temper and sharpness are head and shoulders across the rest. One two, one two, and beside and over -- throughout this sword behind your side, it won't be long past victory is beside your reach."
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Also should I give PPG its own thread so I stop clogging this one with it?
Also...Apple made the new MacBook Pro as service-unfriendly as the iPhone. That pretty much makes it "for douchebags only" -- I want to be able to tinker, dammit.
Also, does anyone actually use Ubuntu Software Center? Everyone I know who uses Ubuntu (myself included) just relies on apt-get, because c'mon, apt-get isn't exactly difficult to use.
Trials like changing all my Windows-only music files to mp3's, getting Touhou to work on a Mac, getting stereotyped as a Starbucks-dwelling 'cool' person.
Thing is, I'm used to Windows. I can navigate my way through most issues on this OS. New OS means relearning everything from scratch.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
...I've always found it strange that learning a new OS seems to be a big thing for most people. Learning new UIs always seemed to come naturally to me...
I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
I think one of my big reasons for sticking with OS X is that it is preferred by graphic designers, and I would like to be one someday. That and habit; Mother was fond o Macs when I was younger, and has returned to them as of late.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Ok, yeah, Minnesota was right. Docky makes GNOME 3 infinitely more usable.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
new kids on the block had a buncha hits, chinese food makes me sick
and i think it's fly when girls stop by for the summer, for the summer
This song's lyrics have always been amusingly inane.
I'm rewatching The Return of Harmony. I just realised that this is pretty much a PONY version of "Encounter at Farpoint". That makes it easier to watch.
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^Regardless of what you use though, you're expected to know how to command line things. Which...I don't. Maybe that's different for some of the more user friendly versions, I dunno.
I still have no idea why my old high school opted to upgrade all our computers from Windows XP to Windows Vista, or in the case of the computers that were in the computer lab, downgrade them from Windows 7 to Windows Vista.
I'm so glad I don't go there anymore. .~.
No esoteric browser lovers?
Just me?
okay.
*hides*
This is only sort of a browser, but it has my favorite browser name ever. Just because it's so stupid.
Also I am probably the only person in the world who uses Maxthon (a chinese derivative of Internet Explorer) for anything. Well. That's a lie, I don't use it, but I have it on my computer.
I also want to see if I can't get the browser that comes with the RedStar OS, just to see if it really does have a built-in firewall like I've heard.
Gnollish Autoplunger
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
On the one hand, I'm curious about owning a MacBook. On the other hand, I don't want to deal with the trials of owning a MacBook.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
I assume that this does Stench damage?
what, it's not free.
Fuck those guys, then.
"If you want by rise behind the masses outside the field from combat, then this is the sword you should have without your hand or strapped above your belt. Its temper and sharpness are head and shoulders across the rest. One two, one two, and beside and over -- throughout this sword behind your side, it won't be long past victory is beside your reach."sword behind inappropriate prepositions
--most of the internet
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Thing is, I'm used to Windows. I can navigate my way through most issues on this OS. New OS means relearning everything from scratch.
God I hate how dead the internet is at this time of night.
Can I get a roll call? Who all is here?
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
SHALL
WE DO?
WITH ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
THE EMPTYYYYYYYYYYYY
SPACES!