Aspies For Freedom

http://www.gplv4.org/ :lol:

The current GPL v4 draft:

http://www.linuxsucks.org had a good piece once in which they proclaimed that Linux was free if your time was worthless. After struggling with the damned thing for hours on end just to install a browser other than the one that came with whatever distribution, I have to agree. Just because Microsoft subscribe to the idea that ease of use will win a commercial war does not make it wrong.

Quite outside of the scope for this topic; it was meant simply to provide a link to and discuss a joke site that I find funny and it's material, not to be a serious disucssion about Linux.

But I guess it could be extended to include that, too. As for your point: I agree that Windows is quite simpler to use when you have little experience of it, compared to Linux. Once you learn to a larger degree how to operate Linux however, it gradually becomes more even with Windows. And eventually, Linux, having greater functionality, ends up being the more useable.

To use Linux have to be learned to a much larger degree, but in the end, it is worth it. And as Linux slowly grows in use, the process of learning it will likely be made easier.

gunzip whatever.tar.gz
tar xvf whatever.tar
cd whatever
./configure
make
make install

if from source, or if you want to use a pre-compiled package, slap it in your distro's package manager and install it using a nice fancy GUI should you want it.

now try to remove IE from windows

Might as well scrap the GUI shell altogether and go right back to DOS. :razz:

What is so great about being forced to use a GUI for everything anyway?

Depends on the app!
I'd much rather have Word than a line editor, but bioinformatics programs are sure easier to run from a command line where you can easily specify lots of -options. :)

Apologies for the drawing this out, but I do not see what is so great about having a GUI for everything, either. In fact, I would love to go back to DOS and perform functions quickly simply by typing commands. That is not the problem I have at the moment. The problem I have is that trying to operate alternatives is like pushing the proverbial up a hill with a fork. :lol:

I really wouldn't want to miss my GUI. Simply because I do about everything possible in multimedia (try doing 3D modeling from a command line -- type every vertex and polygon in a .txt?) from 3D to video editing to webdesign. That's pretty difficult without a GUI. Would like to have a Mac but I don't have a Mac budget at the moment and I game a lot so I'll stick to Win32 for my main PC.

I do most things from the CLI, but running in a terminal emulator on X. I have aMSN running and mozilla,together with a graphical IRC client and kmail. Everything else I do from the CLI and have SSH sessions open all over the place.

http://www.freedos.org/ There you go.

http://www.nliteos.com/

Great App been using it for a few months now, mainly to slipstream hotfixes and other Apps etc for windows installs. can be used to remove components Including IE.

Well i wouldn't say that Windows is easier... I would like to see all these guys that claim that Win is easier to do a nice configuration via the registry editor... hahaha

In linux every configuration file can be opened with a simple ASCII editor (kate, vi, vim, and so on) and you have more probabilities to understand it than reading a string in the regedit of win that looks like:
00000000     REG_BINARY     46 41 43 53 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ...

In linux you learn. In windows you follow.

And something more guys, don't forget that most of us were forced to use windows at some point of our lives, either because of school or a job situation. Windows was our supposely best choice.  Nowdays at least in some schools in europe they have already started teaching linux as the primary OS. I would like to see these kids after 10 years what they would say about how "difficult" and senseless is windows... hahaha