The reason there are so many choices of everything under the sun is because none of them are the best. People want something specific, they can fork a project and make what they feel is better. Since it is free, no one is stopping them.
What do you get out of it? Competition in the free market itself. KDE and Gnome are striving to make their project better than each other. Beryl and Compiz are working to make xgl a kickass new environment, each in their own way.
Remember how Internet Explorer blew Netscape out of the water in browsers, then there was no competition. IE became outdated. When Mozila and Opera started to grab, look how much IE improved.
The point is, competition, like in economics, causes growth. If there were only 2 or 3 distros, they wouldn't have such good package managers (or any at all). I used to favor BSD over Linux, but Linux has taken ahold of all this new technology and is pushing it further. BSD just has wrappers to load Linux applications to keep up.
Is Windows better? Is Linux better? It doesn't matter, as long as they are fighting each other, both will be stronger. It took OS X and Linux to get Microsoft to finally release a new operating system.
BDwinsAlt - Sat Apr 28, 2007 10:50 am
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I like it because my dad can't get viruses or screw anything up. Any one can pirate a copy of windows. It's just easy to get along with. Who wants to help contribute to Bill? He already has too much money. I like the fact that almost all software you get for Linux is free (OpenOffice) where you have to pirate or pay over a hundred dollars for Microsoft products. There aren't really any 15 day trials.
Because I don't have to download patches, keygens, and cracks, I don't have to worry about viruses anyways. Antiviruses don't always protect you. It's a pain going into safemode only to find that the viruses has attached itself to that as well and you have to download a remover from a 3rd party guy you know nothing about since you can't delete the process.
Linux gives me package errors sometimes, but I can usually fix them.
That's why I like it.
Oh yeah, and so wetzel can't think he knows everything. He tried to put c++ code on the board like this: include "main"#
I laughed but I didn't say anything. Of course he gets to look so smart. He bypasses passwords at school (not hard when there is no admin password if you logon to the computer itself and not the county domain.)
Let's see him try to figure out how to bypass mine.
Maverick - Sat Apr 28, 2007 1:04 pm
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I totally agree with you Solo Ace, it's confusing and messy with all those different Linux distros, package managers, software locations.
Maybe it's healthy competition but it's certainly not helping the end users.
I recently been using Linux more because I'm having my development server running on it (CentOS) and at my work we are having a project environment running on it (Buildix - knoppix). It's hard to get around in Linux and learning the different commands but also dealing with the differences between the both distros.
Solo Ace - Sat Apr 28, 2007 4:49 pm
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