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Back to Linux, and Not Impressed

posted by janrinok on Friday December 23 2016, @08:47PM   Printer-friendly
from the try-another-distro? dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

I've been using MacOSX as my primary desktop since the days of Rhapsody. But I always had Linux virtual machines running on occasions. A dwindling number of machines at home were running Linux, most notably a couple of Raspberry Pi and a Synology Diskstation. And when I installed Linux, I usually went for Ubuntu, which did a good job polishing the user experience. The build ring for Tao3D includes a number of virtual machines running several major distros for testing purpose, but it's been quite inactive for a while, and repairing it is on my short-term to-do list.

Working for Red Hat, I thought I had to use Fedora as my primary desktop. And the experience has been a bit underwhelming so far, unfortunately. In just three days, I managed to render a Mac Book Pro unbootable in OSX, had several different issues with skippy or laggy mouse cursors and even non-responsive keyboards, had a driver crash attempting to access my home Wi-Fi, found out the hard way that NFS performance is just horrible, and had to use Google for trivial things way too often.

I complained several times on this blog about what I perceived as a degradation of OSX software quality since 10.6, but this experience with Linux puts all this in some serious perspective.

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday December 23 2016, @09:33PM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Friday December 23 2016, @09:33PM (#445232) Homepage

    Mint choked hard during the install. If it can't even install itself, I can only imagine the horrors I'd have to deal with if it did install. Using Mint is like dating Oriental women, that is, those who recommend it have never tried it themselves.

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday December 23 2016, @09:39PM

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Friday December 23 2016, @09:39PM (#445236) Journal

    My girlfriend is Chinese by way of Malaysia and we're doing fine :) Sorry to mess up your data set. Of course we're both women so for all I know that isn't in your sample set so...

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    I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...

  • (Score: 0, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 24 2016, @03:00AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 24 2016, @03:00AM (#445375)

    > like dating Oriental women, that is, those who recommend it have never tried it themselves.

    Your problems with "oriental women" are probably caused by whatever makes you think calling someone "oriental" is acceptable.

    • (Score: 4, Insightful) by TheRaven on Saturday December 24 2016, @08:41AM

      by TheRaven (270) on Saturday December 24 2016, @08:41AM (#445488) Journal
      My partner is half English, half Hong-Kong Chinese. Her (Chinese) mother prefers 'oriental' to 'asian' because no one who isn't obsessive compulsive remembers that it's defining a region of the world based on its position in Europe, and it's a lot more specific than asian. Describing someone as asian is barely more specific than describing them as human: more than half the population of the world lives in Asia (or a bit less, depending on which continent model you use) and the region encompasses dozens of distinct ethnic groups.
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      sudo mod me up

      • (Score: 1) by purple_cobra on Saturday December 24 2016, @12:12PM

        by purple_cobra (1435) on Saturday December 24 2016, @12:12PM (#445520)

        What do you mean, "words have meanings" [thefreedictionary.com]?
        Sarcasm aside, has any of the professionally offended class argued that she shouldn't prefer this word?

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 27 2016, @09:32PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 27 2016, @09:32PM (#446469)

        Yeah. Referring to a people using the name of their continent can be construed as an insult.

        -A Canadian

  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Saturday December 24 2016, @01:07PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Saturday December 24 2016, @01:07PM (#445526) Journal

    I can't imagine why you would think dating oriental women is not to be recommended. I dated many asian women (and many other kinds of women, too) and wound up marrying one. We have two beautiful, intelligent kids now. And i dated them and her not because they were asian but because they were cute and intelligent. The girl i married's first words to me that the party we were at was like the bar scene from Mos Eisley; right then and there i knew she was a keeper.

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    Washington DC delenda est.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 24 2016, @02:26PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 24 2016, @02:26PM (#445538)

      We have two beautiful, intelligent kids now. And i dated them

      Now there are some experiences I would'nt want to share...