Tough love: Linux needs more haters (opens in new tab)

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17 pointstx17y ago10 comments

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baha_man17y ago· 4 in thread

Maybe I should set up a blog called 'FreeBSD Haters', the first post could be on why getting a printer to work is so hard, and the second on why Firefox doesn't work properly...

Prrometheus17y ago

Does FreeBSD try to be a desktop replacement for the everyman?

baha_man17y ago

It depends what you mean by 'desktop replacement' and 'everyman'... I'm a programmer, I use FreeBSD at home, and it's great for development. It's also pretty good for multimedia, for example I now much prefer Amarok to iTunes.

The only downside is that a few things are ridiculously difficult when (in my opinion) they shouldn't be, for example setting up printers.

I don't think the average 'man in the street' could install FreeBSD as a Windows replacement, but then they couldn't administer Windows properly either.

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pavelludiq17y ago

PC-BSD does.

zppx17y ago

Wanna be a useless blog, everyone knows that BSD is dying. (Just a pun, okay, I use OpenBSD as a secondary operating system on my laptop).

carruthk17y ago· 1 in thread

LinuxHater's just trying to point out some of the mad stuff we need to fix so that folks who don't want to learn to love the command line can learn to love linux too. Printers have been diabolical to set up in unix & linux forever! (PS: man-in-the-street can't administer any OS that's why they need all the help they can get)

nailer17y ago

Exactly. Linux hater shows the things Linux apps need to fix so that Linux can become a desktop OS for mainstream people (beyond the limited eeePC-type environments), and that everyone else can get the hardware and app support they want as a result.

I love the site, and I suspect the people who react badly to it are those that don't actually know as much about the platform as the author does.

ars17y ago

http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/

Also, Anyone have a link to the thread were linus talks about the benchmark as a bug report?

sant0sk117y ago

This article slipped through the cracks a few days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=249387

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