Star Why Windows Isn't Hell Or Why Linux Isn't Bliss, Part II
Linked by Thom "Slakje" Holwerda on Sun 27th Jul 2003 19:04 UTC
Editorial 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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The Original Article was a Troll?
by OhPlease on Sun 27th Jul 2003 21:17 UTC

Here are some of the author's statements from the original article:

1. Linux would be all "bliss" if we forget the slow boot-up/shutdown times...

Only a user who constantly reboots or shuts down a machine would even comment on this. Maybe it is just me but I don't ever turn my computers off. And as noted by others, this statement does not apply to Gentoo.

2. ...if we forget the lousy hardware support for, let's say, Ati products

Try to install certain webcams, along with certain other pieces of hardware, in Windows XP and you have the same problem, so what does this statement prove, if anything?

3. ... if we forget the "geek" image of Linux

Which Linux has the "geek" image? Is it Xandros, Lindows, Mandrake, ELX or what? I better tell that to my friend who switched from AOL on Windows 95 to Mandrake 7.0 on Earthlink all those years ago. She will be quite surprised to learn she is a geek.

4. ...if we forget the fact that some distributions suddenly have to be paid for

Oh you mean some Linux distros have to be paid for, just like Windows XP? Again, the point of this statement is what? What does it prove?

5. ...if we forget that some distributions suddenly get discontinued

Oh you mean like how Windows 3.1 & 95 got discontinued?

6. ...if we forget the crappy way software is installed

Okay, first of all, configure, make & make install works on every distro I have ever used. Yeah I know that you may not have all dependencies installed, which means it won't always work, but that is what devel-rpms and devel-debs are for. But even if we ignore this information, tools such as apt-get and urpmi are far too useful to be called crappy.

Now these 6 statements were taken from the second paragraph of the orginal article. After reading that particular paragraph, I read no further and did not read the comments either, having seen the original article for what it was, a troll.

Now the author writes a second article, decrying the fact that he was flamed. He is either misinformed, or trolling a second time, at the reader's expense.