I'm not sure how long this will last, partly because it's humor, and partly because it may been seen as "Windows bashing" with no actual content.
But it reflects my experience with Windows. What it doesn't do it reflect my equivalent-but-different experience of Linux. I do feel like I spend endless hours on sysadmin-like tasks on Linux, and there are days where I get nothing done because of the Yak-Shaving.
I should write an equivalent article from the other POV. Has anyone done that already?
I am moving to Linux as main OS the moment someone tell me a sure Haswell combination of CPU and MB that can do VGA passtrough so I can visualize one proper windows for gaming.
You can also run Windows as your main OS, but run Linux under Virtualbox or the like, so you can switch between them without rebooting and have the best of both worlds (Linux for programming, Windows for gaming)
"Linux Doesn’t Boot or Shutdown Properly" made me laugh. Considering I've had countless occasions waiting forever for my Windows machine to shut down (or even hibernate) while people at Starbucks are eagerly waiting to get rid of me.
The same (underpowered) machine with Linux, and I never have that problem any more; and frankly, that aspect alone, makes me happy.
Oh, yeah, THAT's horrible -- I've in that situation couple of times (not so often, as I hibernated the machine most of the time, but there were times that couldn't be helped.)
It's almost gets the point; embarrassing -- while, Starbucks people are usually nice, it's really awkward when they already have given a word that they are closing in 10 minutes and my computer's still 4 out of 10 updates after that 10 minutes...
INHO, actually, that update scheme might have been appropriate if computers were desktops, but I don't know why they are keep insisting on that. (With the SAME machine, I can happily work while update is in progress running Ubuntu. I don't understand why they have to make updating the system so painful with Windows.)
> why they have to make updating the system so painful with Windows
I've actually thought about this and I've come up with a pretty decent explanation.
Most UNIX filesystems have inodes, which essentially represent a filesystem object's content, and directory entries, which are how user code specifies which file it wants to access. A directory entry is basically just a name and a pointer to an inode.
An inode is deleted when it isn't referenced by any directory entries and isn't being used by any programs. One important practical effect of all this architecture is that deleting files on UNIX-like systems (for example, to replace them with a newer version) generally doesn't disturb any programs that are using those files.
Another handy feature of many UNIX filesystems from the perspective of software updates is that mv'ing one file onto another will result in an atomic replacement operation if source and destination are on the same filesystem.
Windows filesystems don't have any of this infrastructure, so Windows has to do updates when nothing but the kernel and updater are running, i.e. during startup or shutdown.
I get an additional speed in Linux and Linux appears to be honest in file copy operations than Windows, which appears clever.
Windows based activities are no match in Linux, especially in setting up the system. I spent quite some time in finding the right location for .vimrc, so I can change some trivial behavior .
I never thought humour writing has gone to such lows, both in terms of content and presentation.
Okay, I first thought it's another "bash them winz" post but I thought give it a try and I am back with the feeling that it's worse then that. At least those bashes have content and analysis even though very trite and non-significant.
But it reflects my experience with Windows. What it doesn't do it reflect my equivalent-but-different experience of Linux. I do feel like I spend endless hours on sysadmin-like tasks on Linux, and there are days where I get nothing done because of the Yak-Shaving.
I should write an equivalent article from the other POV. Has anyone done that already?