Linked by Thom "Slakje" Holwerda on Sun 27th Jul 2003 19:04 UTC
Misinterpreted. I think that is about the best word around to describe the reactions to my previous article. Whether it has been misinterpreted due to people only reading what they want to read, due to an unclear choice of words on my behalf, or other factors, I am going to try it again. I will try to explain my position, again. Now, more stable, the code has been rewritten from scratch!
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Hearing people's opinions, good or bad, is the risk you take when you publish your thoughts. You shouldn't have to post a second article to justify your first. When you tackle the issue of Windows & Linux, you are going to get people flaming back and forth. Even if you just wrote one sentence, "I love both Windows and Linux." You'll get flamed just for listing Windows first and Linux second.
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Now to my own opinion of your first article, I think the reason people were outraged by it was because you claimed that you weren't taking sides, that you liked both operating systems, but the path you took was pointing out all the good parts of windows and the bad parts of Linux. This seems VERY biased, even if that wasn't your intention. From a quick skim of the article it seems that you are saying, "Windows is not as bad as you think it is, but Linux sucks."
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One of the worst parts of it was where you claimed that Linux had a crappy way of installing programs. Well, Windows is no better. Sure, I can grab a self-installing program off the web and install it by double-clicking on its icon. That seems pretty easy. Or, I can do "apt-get install gimp" and install gimp.
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Now, you did say that you hadn't played around with apt-get enough yet to form an opinion, so perhaps you shouldn't have even mentioned it. Instead of just saying that Linux's installation procedure is "crap," you should have given examples of why it is crap... such as being stuck in RPM hell or whatever your experience is that makes you dislike it.
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I guess my main gripe with your original article is that it didn't seem to say anything useful. It seemed to be something of a ramble instead of a coherent discussion and unfortunately, very few people understood what you wre trying to do.