Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 8th Aug 2006 18:46 UTC, submitted by Borys Musielak
"Microsoft has reached an enormous success with its Windows product during the last decade and practically monopolized the market for home computer operating systems. But, does it mean Windows is still the best OS around, especially for power users? I'm going to cumulate my Windows XP frustrations and tell you about the top 10 reasons why I decided to dump Windows and use GNU/Linux as my primary desktop OS."
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2005-11-13
Ok let's test that. Find me a Windows application freeware (not shareware with limited function) to edit an iso image of a DVD ...
Why surely my friend
http://www.avsmedia.com/DiscCreator/index.aspx
*NOTE I did this from google, have never even used this application myself. Time to find = 2 minutes, 30 seconds.
Unless you know such software ahead of time, good luck on that one... the first 10 hits I found are demo version or so call free-version until you tried it and it tells you it cannot edit larger than 100Mb image, or other such limitation... I gave up after 3 or 4 install/uninstall (was back in the day where I was using Windows)
Its about the same with Linux, unless someone can point you in the direction of a good application you'll end up just installing/removing applications using apt-get or synaptic trying to find something that works.
I've found in a few cases the stuff I want isn't even in my repositories and then I have to hunt around and find a repository that contains it or go to the website for the app, which in some cases gives nothing but source code (what a f'ing joke).
It can take longer to find an app in linux in most cases for me then on windows but I'm getting to a point in linux where there probably isn't much I need to install, its doing pretty much everything I need at this point.
Edited 2006-08-08 20:04