Linux Hater's Blog

Nice quiet weekend here. I'm kinda sad that K Pride Week is pretty much over, but that doesn't mean we have to stop making fun of them. I'm sure they'll keep providing us with good laughs as time goes on. Seriously, sometimes writing this blog seems too easy.

Got a few links for y'all today (Thanks to all those who sent them along). In no particular order:

Alright. OK. I hadn't used KDE in a while. Surely, some things must have gotten better. So I installed OpenSUSE 11 just to check it out. Cuz like, SUSE was/is the best KDE distro right?

I start up the browser, and type in www.slashdot.org...

You know, just when I thought it couldn't get any worse with OpenOffice, along come the KDE folks with yet another office suite.

Why? Seriously? Why? goddamnit. Every line of code you guys write for KOffice is a line of code that could have gone into improving OpenOffice. Please know that you are probably doing the world more harm than good by working on this.

Maybe someone thinks that if Linux has like 3 billion office suites, then it can finally take over MS Office? I mean, there's so much choice. Who could possibly resist?

As a shit-storm chaser, it's been fun watching the fecal hurricane that has resulted from the KDE4 devs chucking their shit-pile 4.0 into the proverbial fan that is the internets.

With this theme in mind, today, I'd like to call out the jack-assery of a particular kind of luser: the luser journalist. Typically, these journalists occupy positions of large influence (or they believe they have influence, at least) and they pontificate their opinions that show they don't have any idea how anything works.

Alright, so as soon as I started bitching about graphics, my coworker, lets just call him Linux Graphics Hater (warm applause everyone! ready those tomatoes!), went off on a rant the technical reasons why open source ATI and intel drivers still suck ass. He also corrected me that nvidia might actually be making money from some of these linux drivers. Good for them, but as long as they're still kind of hiding the fact that they're only really doing it for their paying customers, I think it supports my overall point.

Damn. I thought putting Gentoo as a choice in the poll would totally skew the results, but looks like Ubuntu is holding strong.

In honor of Ubuntu, here's a few links to make you feel warm an fuzzy about this awesome distro.

In case you lived in a cave, let me tell you that an article is going around all the luser blogs about how Bill Gates wrote a pissy email about how he couldn't install MovieMaker.

Sound the alarms people! Microsoft fucked up on the distribution one small program that nobody uses! Surely everyone is going to switch to Linux now! Hurray!

Do you find using Linux painful? Is it like being in hell? Well at least now you can make the visual experience match the psychological one. Hurray for choice!

I vote for this to be the new default Ubuntu theme. It would give potential users a fair heads up about what they're getting themselves into. Someone quick! file an "idea" on the brainstorm site!

A couple amusing links for you guys this morning.

Long time SuSE/KDE users revolt over KDE4 presentation in OpenSuSE 11.0. Circle-jerk gone wrong? A long thread, but a lot of typical "you don't need that feature anyways" talk going on here. But you know, KDE4 is awesome, ok? I've always wanted to be able to rotate my desktop icons, cuz you know, my right eye is about 3 inches below my left, and the whole world looks like it's always slanted to me. Thank you KDE devs for bringing some sanity into my world.

Unfortunately, don't have any time to post anything today. I've got a social event to attend.

Newb guide #4. Suck it.

• Pick versions of the kernel, glibc, gcc, that are different from all other distros. So that you too, can "Think Different," or at least claim that you have the newest kernel among all distros for the next 2 weeks.
  
• Pick a color. Make your distro's default desktop look that color. Beware that blue, green, red, and brown are taken. This is your distro's branding you see? Having a consistent color increases usability, even more so than having usable apps.

I've been seeing a bunch of freetards trumpeting up their victory in Munich for a while now. They don't talk too much about Vienna though, which was a complete clusterfuck.

I found an article that provides some deep, super deep, I mean all the way up in ya ovaries deep, analysis of what happened.

Their first, huge mistake was their attempt to roll out their own GNU/Linux distribution called Wienux.

Hmm, why does that sound so typical?