Comments on: What if everybody used Linux? https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/12/29/what-if-everybody-used-linux/ Fri, 31 Dec 2010 14:55:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/12/29/what-if-everybody-used-linux/#comment-528830 Fri, 31 Dec 2010 14:55:54 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/12/29/what-if-everybody-used-linux/#comment-528830 Rorschach: Listen to yourself. Grandma does not install SATA disks. Grandma uses the computer with the OS it came with and the hardware it came with.

It happens I was just starting a post on Linux and grandma readiness, I may use your comment as a reference point!

]]> By: Rorschach https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/12/29/what-if-everybody-used-linux/#comment-528829 Fri, 31 Dec 2010 14:52:30 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/12/29/what-if-everybody-used-linux/#comment-528829 Maddening that Linux is still not granny-ready in 2010/11. Took me hours of studying the forums to figure out how to get SATA 3 disks to work.

]]> By: Joel https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/12/29/what-if-everybody-used-linux/#comment-528828 Thu, 30 Dec 2010 18:30:43 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/12/29/what-if-everybody-used-linux/#comment-528828 I like Linux, especially Ubuntu and I use it on my personal computer. For work, it’s all Microsoft though, all our business apps require it.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/12/29/what-if-everybody-used-linux/#comment-528827 Thu, 30 Dec 2010 17:06:54 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/12/29/what-if-everybody-used-linux/#comment-528827 You don’t avoid Linux. You use it all the time. You are using it now as you read this web site.

]]> By: Birger Johansson https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/12/29/what-if-everybody-used-linux/#comment-528826 Thu, 30 Dec 2010 10:41:45 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/12/29/what-if-everybody-used-linux/#comment-528826 Comment 11 looks like mabus. Don’t feed the troll.

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Personally, I avoid Linux; I like well-functioning computers, but I do not want them to actually evolve sentience when I am nearby.

]]> By: Chris https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/12/29/what-if-everybody-used-linux/#comment-528825 Thu, 30 Dec 2010 04:57:25 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/12/29/what-if-everybody-used-linux/#comment-528825 What does this have to do with Linux?

]]> By: atheismisdead https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/12/29/what-if-everybody-used-linux/#comment-528824 Thu, 30 Dec 2010 04:02:40 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/12/29/what-if-everybody-used-linux/#comment-528824 we’re this far from nuking all of you….

the X-MAS vacuum cleaner for the atheists….

shermer, randi, myers, pz, dawkins, harris

thecoolgadgets.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/henry-desktop-vacuum1.jpg

youtube.com/watch?v=lz4R0GHfM-Y&

why does everyone always want to PUNCH you, shermer?

youtube.com/watch?v=wxrWz9XVvls&

take your meds, you little fckers…

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now we are going to bury you…

And the lesson from all of this? DOUBLE!
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What do you want, you little ****ers?

more of these idiots

youtube.com/watch?v=q4C5yzFmC80

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prizes_for_evidence_of_the_paranormal

HOW N WON ALL THE PARANORMAL PRIZES!

THE HIGH PRICE OF REVOLUTION

youtube.com/user/xviolatex?feature=mhum

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/12/29/what-if-everybody-used-linux/#comment-528823 Thu, 30 Dec 2010 03:45:18 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/12/29/what-if-everybody-used-linux/#comment-528823 Almost no one I interact with in a documenty way uses Linux. Most use Windows or a Mac. My using Linux does not hamper them, me, or the interchange of information or documents.

In this sort of situation it is helpful to use OpenOffice and to set saving files in Word format as the default.

]]> By: gruebait https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/12/29/what-if-everybody-used-linux/#comment-528822 Thu, 30 Dec 2010 01:35:25 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/12/29/what-if-everybody-used-linux/#comment-528822 MadScientist:
My most recent “just in case” computer was acquired from the dumpster where my neighbor laid it to rest. (Perfectly good hardware, totally borked Windoz. Runs just fine on Ubuntu.) That’s el-cheapo.

Thankfully, I haven’t needed anything Microsoft-ish since I retired, and I can plead incompetence when relatives need their windoz machines healed 🙂

]]> By: MadScientist https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/12/29/what-if-everybody-used-linux/#comment-528821 Thu, 30 Dec 2010 00:21:01 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/12/29/what-if-everybody-used-linux/#comment-528821 @gruebait: Is Ruby an off-the-rails sort of character?

I’ve seen Linux on an awful lot of el-cheapo computers which run Winduhs. The machines appear to boot from flash memory and offer you a choice of an instant connection to the internet or booting Winduhs. I wish I could avoid Winduhs but I have to deal with too many people who use nothing but that.

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