Comments on: Things I can do in Linux

By: Half Truths Don’t Make for Good Open Source Advocacy « lucky13

Half Truths Don’t Make for Good Open Source Advocacy « lucky13 — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 23:32:07 +0000

[...] Things I can do in Linux: 1. Update every single piece of software on my system with a single action. This is one of the main reasons I run Linux. For every Linux distribution Iâ€™ve used (Gentoo, Red Hat, Suse, Ubuntu,Fedora, Mandriva), updating is simple. When you update, you have every application, every library, every script – every single piece of software upgraded automatically for you. And on most of them, they will check for updates automatically and notify you. This is great for security, fixing bugs quickly, and getting the latest in features. [...]

By: Kanute « Book Project

Kanute « Book Project — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 02:41:10 +0000

[...] Things I can do in Linux [...]

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 27 May 2007 15:43:27 +0000

I am a windows user and haven’t try linux before. This is because my previous college environment and the working environment for now are using windows platform. And almost home users in my country (Malaysia) are using windows OS. So, if the file (e.g. word document, slides show or something like that) that save in linux platform, can they open and run in windows platform?

Btw, it is hard to find software/application that design for linux, am I right? Maybe I am wrong, because I totally don’t have any knowledge about linux. But at least I know linux is very reliable in the server side.

Thanks for the information that you leave in my blog, I will give Active Virus Shield a try.

Have a nice day.

By: Dan MArtin

Dan MArtin — Thu, 24 May 2007 03:39:41 +0000

Just FYI, the real source is my weblog: http://dmartin.org/weblog/things-i-can-do-in-linux-that-i-cant-do-on-windows

Jean took the content from my site and posted it on Digg. I had to ask him to take it down. Now he has his own list in its place.

By: Taddei

Taddei — Thu, 10 May 2007 11:25:56 +0000

What I like most about Linux versus Windows is that if there’s something I can’t seem to do, I can read up on it and either find a program to do it, or tweak what I have to make it work the way I want.

By: Toprato

Toprato — Thu, 10 May 2007 11:23:47 +0000

Everyone always bitches about hardware support in Linux, but I find quite the opposite. My printer works out of the box with Linux, but requires drivers for Windows. I am always tracking down the install disk for my sound card if I do a Windows install and it works out of the box on Linux. I need to track down drivers for my graphics card in Windows, but in Linux it works out of the box. Seeing a pattern
The flip side is that if it doesn’t work out of the box in Linux, you can be in a world of hurt trying to get it to work.

By: Parka

Parka — Thu, 10 May 2007 11:17:21 +0000

Most points in that list are only true because there isn’t much commercial software on Linux.
If Linux ever got as popular as Windows that could possibly change and nullify much of those points.