Originally Posted by Kayaker72
please please please tell me that that's sarcasm or a
joke? there's a very good reason i use linux, thy name was windows98 and
the loss of 30gb of data right in my final year of highschool { a) usb
backup drives weren't invented then. b) i didn't lose any schoolwork
because i never did any work. c) but i lost a lot of music and
painstakingly (56k modem) downloaded, uh, images}
.
as for
mac, yes you get a good level of integration, and you pay for it. and
fair enough that they want certain standards of code written by others.
but
then they get a normal pc connector, make it into a fancy shape, and
charge a crudload of royalties for someone else to use it?
and
they just take any means they can think of to crush competition (enough
that makes microsoft's IE and media player look all warm and fuzzy).
read the latest one?
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Kindle-K...ews-11971.html
they've obviously got the best legal dept in the world to have never
been hauled up on the anti-trust guys.
.
and for my day or
two of pain, my system is now screaming along. 11,000 fps on glxgears,
oh yeah. recompiling the whole system in under two hours, sweeet. the
best thing about linux is tailoring everything perfectly, i've got the
whole system set up, office and gimp, media players, firefox, skype,
wine, all except DPP which comes next, and so far i've used not even 7GB
for everything, because i'm only supporting the hardware and programs i
know i have, unlike windows which has to support every piece of
hardware known to man and then some.
no idea of the original
problem, i'm blaming either a buggy videocard driver (which came direct
from nvidia), or me selecting the wrong options for my hardware (or
both).
but for me, computers are just like the photography. the
fun is lying down in the wet and taking the photos, or the hike to get
there, who cares if i never print the photos. and the fun is in setting
up the computer and the working through all the options to get it
running blazingly fast (even more reason why i use Gentoo, the
compile-your-own version of linux, no pre-made packages like ubuntu or
fedora).
.
so i'm getting a call about an insurance claim
tomorrow, if all goes well i get the money within a week or two, then
i'm going for my 27"er...
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