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ha ha ha !

Pita in Serbian and Croatian language is actually Pie in English. Those pictures are maybe some obscure form of pie.

Anyone who has used gnu/linux for a significant amount of time must admit that it is an operating system designed for hackers. It puts far too much effort into exposing system operation (or not enough into masking it), when all you want to do is use your computer to get work done.

So why would anyone who isn't a software developer or computer geek want to use desktop linux?

I remember it being pita bread...

Some people will say you are just trolling us.......

Assuming that you are serious, I will simply tell you that you are wrong.

My 2 systems:

Home:
Linux-only (Arch)
CrossOver---but only IE installed ATM
3 users--2 of whom know less about computers than my cat.
Used every day for browsing, WP, e-mail, photo editing (GIMP), spreadsheets, webpage editing (Bluefish), and much more.
Reliability is excellent (unless of course I am diddling with it....)

Office:
HP laptop (in a docking station in the office)
Arch and XP dual-boot
CrossOver with Office 2007, Fasttrack, and a few other things
Regular use for all work tasks--spreadsheet, WP, all the standard stuff
Used in Windows mode less that 5% of the time---eg to run MS Project.
Reliability excellent

Because it works.

Complete and utter nonsense. I've been using Linux as a desktop for many, many years and I'm just as productive as anyone with a Windows or OSX box. Even a half-wit can use Linux as a desktop nowadays. No "hacker" status required.

1) It saves me (and my company which also uses Linux) one Genuine Boatload of cash. No usurious Microsoft licensing fees.

2) Minimal security headaches. Even with clueless users, it is much more difficult to be compromised by the nonsense out there and if you've taken the proper precautions, clean-up after a compromise is easier because the users don't have admin access.

3) Almost total interoperability. I have absolutely no problem exchanging files and information with other people on other platforms

4) Greater productivity. Because the software costs are minimal, I can easily experiment with new approaches and new software packages. In the long run that make me more productive because I can experiment with things that would be cost-prohibitive in a Windows world.

To put it bluntly, you couldn't be more wrong.

Well, I've been using GNU/Linux for a significant amount of time and I'll admit no such thing! I'm firmly of the opinion that Linux is the best desktop OS (Taking all things into consideration including value, security, stability etc.) for pretty much all general purpose users. there are distros that place greater value on exposing system operation (By which I assume you mean they aim for as much configurability as possible.) but most these days firmly focus on noob freindliness. Take a look through the top distros listed on Distrowatch and count the number of times (new) user freindliness and ease of use is mentioned.

Hmm, I have a WinXP/RedHat dual boot box at work that still gives me a 'sync out of range' in XP after I had to go back to a lower spec'ed monitor. Sorry, I'm lying; in my attempt to fix it I managed to crash the Windows side solidly and I indeed no longer get the message. In RedHat it took me 30 seconds to fix it properly. It's indeed geeky.

Serious now, I'm using Ubuntu (6.06 updated to 8.04) and in the past 3.5 years I only had to use 'geeky' stuff once when I installed the driver for the nVidia video card. I don't think that the current versions of a number of distros are that geeky or designed for hackers.

You're obviously used to Windows, that's OK. But don't blame gnu+linux for not being exactly the same thing you're used to - it isn't.

Anyone who's used to gnu+linux will find windows flawed and annoyingly "helpful" (just *how many times* should I click the "This program requires admin rights, are you sure you want to run it? Yes, I'm sure" button, AKA the "I'm fscking sure I want to execute this program 'cause I'm the fscking admin and I'm fscking know what I'm doing" button...)


Well, rant mode off :-)

If you want something that behaves like windows, just stick with windows. At least, until ReactOS reaches production quality.

They're onto us, lads. Scatter! Actually, this fits nicely into the megathread in General, a place specially hand-crafted behind closed door for just this sort of thing.

Because it offers an alternative to Windows. GNU/Linux doesn't suffer from a lot of the problems Windows has (principally security, and also an extremely time-consuming install procedure counting updates and application installation).

Another key advantage is wider than just the OS itself - the GNU/Linux "ecosystem" is the Free Software ecosystem, and to the end user that means no cost. The de facto standard software on Linux is almost available cost free. By contrast, the Windows "ecosystem" is a commercial one, where expensive proprietary software is the norm (MS Office and Photoshop spring to mind).

Of course, that's not to say Linux doesn't have problems. But they're different problems. Linux is another way. Some find it better, others find it worse. What matters is that it is different.

It depends on which distribution you use and what you consider to be a lot of effort to do or learn about something. It's not difficult at all to use Linux, and it can do pretty much everything.

I actually was intentionally (and, I see, successfully) trolling. A mod spotted my thread and moved it into this one for me.

Although a "LQ Newbie", I've been running Linux exclusively for almost two years now.

I knew it!!---Nice work

Watch out for those mods.......some are borderline unstable (I'll let you figure out which ones......)