While I agree with some of the things Manuel has to say, I also have to say
that he is not, himself, exactly a poster boy for doing things the right
way. There's been some real friction between him and other developers, and
his referenced article, viewed in that context, reads as "sour grapes".
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Scott Gomez
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Chuck Norcutt <
chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> But before you jump to Ubuntu, Xubuntu or LinuxMint and make a decision
> about which of the four desktop environments you want to use and after
> you realize that Ubuntu had just been prostituted by its commercial
> developer by quietly sending/selling your file search results to Amazon
> and... well you ought to read this:
> <http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2012/Aug-29.html>
>
> For those who don't want to bother reading the long list of frustrations
> over Linux development it basically boils down to a bunch of prima donna
> developers who consider *their* version of Linux their own personal
> sandbox. Their are so many "forks" (different versions) of Linux
> because the developers can make any changes they want in order to do it
> right (in their eyes) and they don't care how much damage they leave
> behind in apps and device drivers that no longer work.
>
> As I was reading this I was thinking back to my early OS/2 development
> experience with Microsoft. We had a system test case that was not
> working for some reason. We were convinced our test code was correct so
> the problem had to be in a particular interface whose development
> belonged to Microsoft. When I tried to explain the problem to the
> 20-something developer he said: "Yeah, it doesn't work because I
> changed the interface." You did what? What about the design
> specification that says it's supposed to be such and so? "Oh, I didn't
> like that so I changed it." But this specification has been published
> to application developers. What are they going to do when their code
> doesn't work any more. "Well, let them change their code".
>
> Brilliant kids but so, so naive.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> On 1/30/2013 11:35 AM, Chris Trask wrote:
> >>
> >> I am not sure about your hardware but I would suggest downloading and
> >> installing virtualbox <https://www.virtualbox.org/> and then
> experiment
> >> with different varieties of linux, one that is quite neat at the moment
> >> is mint <http://www.linuxmint.com/download.php> its a bit confusing but
> >> the one at the top i.e. the mate version in either 32 bit or 64bit is a
> >> nice OS.
> >>
> >> Once you are happy it does what you want you can install it properly and
> >> overwrite windows or depending upon disk space dual boot or even better
> >> install to a fresh drive and put the old windows disk in an external
> >> housing so that you can access any files.
> >>
> >
> > I got a deluge of similar advice from members of another list, and
> I'm going to give Ubuntu, Xubuntu, and LinuxMint a try. The last one
> sounds best of all. Can't download any of them at the moment due to the
> severe weather across North America.
> >
> > Chris
> >
> >
> > Chris
> >
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