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on Wednesday April 22 2015, @06:19AM
from the dagnabbit-stupid-freaking.... dept.
from the dagnabbit-stupid-freaking.... dept.
A 37-year-old Colorado Springs man was cited for discharging a weapon within city limits after shooting his Dell computer 8 times with a 9mm handgun. The police report said that he "was fed up with fighting his computer for the last several months" and shot it in a back alley behind his home. What was not mentioned is exactly why he was so "fed up" with his computer. Could this senseless and violent tragedy have been avoided if his PC were running Linux instead?
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Colorado Man Ends Battle With Computer by Shooting it 8 Times
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The forest may be quiet, but that doesn't mean
the snakes have gone away.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by bradley13 on Wednesday April 22 2015, @01:08PM
Every OS has it's own, unique problems. In the case of Linux, it is this: Things that used to work, break. If they don't break, they change for no good reason.
One minor example: A few months ago, I installed Ubuntu 14.04 on my laptop. This laptop is frequently docked and undocked, attached to projectors, etc.. Under Ubuntu 12.04, Mint 14/15, or any other older Debian distribution, display autodetection worked flawlessly. Now, in all newer Debian distros, there is a bug in a library. Not even disper will work - I have to select displays and resolutions manually every single time. This bug is well-documented, must surely affect zillions of people, and has gone unfixed for nearly a year now.
Two steps forward, one step back. Two nifty new features added, one important old feature broken. Yep, that's Linux.
Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 22 2015, @03:50PM
Thank you for the warning. I considered updating Ubuntu on my laptop, but I'll refrain. I certainly use that laptop for talks a lot. Until that bug is fixed, no newer version for me.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday April 22 2015, @06:11PM
That's interesting. Maybe it's not so much that linux doesn't have its foibles but how you feel about them based on the computing ecosystem you're accustomed to. I can see how that would be annoying, even more so if one's expectations had been set on a Windows or Mac platform where everything "just worked" because vendors lived or died on whether their products did that on the Windows or Mac versions current at that time. To me, that sounds like a minor issue that on linux you can solve because "you can make it work." But then I've been using linux for a long time and in the early years getting anything to work was like belly crawling through broken glass. Nowadays it feels like a total breeze in comparison; if you don't change anything, everything will run until the wheels fall off the car, so to speak. Wrinkles like the one you cited feel more like opportunities to tinker, have fun, and learn something new about the OS.
Washington DC delenda est.