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Try the guide and tell me if it works!
The guide is here: http://fun.drno.de/flash/howto_turn_windows_into_linux.swf
29 Oct 2006 02:34:03
LOL!!!!
05 Nov 2006 23:47:34
that was good
13 Dec 2007 04:23:48
dude that was freakin hilarious! These Buttons don't work :)
13 Nov 2008 21:40:20
Yet we can install python on windows to run k3d....
I thought i would face a serious post about installing gnome, kde, and some other great tools on windows to change the boredom to a diferant slot...
25 Sep 2009 02:12:58
haha... apparently this guy knows nothing about computers. linux is much, much more advanced then windows.
and it also looks prettier :)
just look up kde 4
28 Sep 2010 00:38:28
This would have been funny if it actually had a factual basis behind it. Just typical anti-Linux "humor" created by a moron who obviously never actually used Linux before.
The GUIs you'll typically find in Linux make Windows look horribly bland in comparison. In fact, Windows 7 stole a LOT of its GUI elements from Linux, like its shiny "new" taskbar, which was copied verbatim from KDE 4, which came out long before Windows 7 did.
The jokes about files in Linux are poorly done. There are still plenty of file extensions found in Linux. The difference is they're pretty much completely unnecessary. Only Windows blindly relies on file extensions to determine file type. Linux can actually see the data itself and decide. Typically only binary executables consistently lack file extensions. So if this idiot wanted it t be accurate, he'd have renamed kernel32.dll into kernel32.so. (Don't get me started on uncompressed kernels.)
Also, the Linux filesystem is FAR from "scattered." It just so happens to be far better organized than the Windows filesystem. The Windows filesystem is a clusterfuck of executables mingled with assets mixed with libraries. Too many Windows developers don't even cast DLLs in consistent spots. Sure, Windows32 seems to be where a lot of libraries are found, but sometimes you'll find libraries somewhere completely different because Windows has no hierarchy standard at all. You can easily search for ANYTHING outside /home just by having a basic, minimal, understanding of how things in Linux are distributed. I can easily find ANYTHING on Linux. Good luck me finding EXACTLY where the binaries I am using are in Windows.
Finally, you have gotta be kidding me on the registry thing. The registry is one of the biggest reasons why Windows has terrible total uptime, the registry is a rickety structure that can't withstand even trivial mistakes in configuration. In Linux, because all your configuration is plain-text and placed in individual files, you get the following advantages you'll never get from the registry:
1. It's robust. One screwed up configuration will NOT screw up the rest of the configuration and break everything.
2. It's accessible from ANY text editor you want, making it a lot less of a hassle than trying to track down obscure keys in the registry.
3. The text files are PLAINLY NAMED and AREN'T necessarily split up. Thus, instead of having keys in countless different places, you have system configuration in ONE place.
4. You can EASILY recover your system if its botched by bad configuration by simply using a text editor in a LiveCD to fix things. If your registry is botched in Windows, pray you have a registry backup, and pray that Windows can at least boot in safe mode. If not, you're boned and have to HOPE that the "use last known good configuration" works. Linux can withstand configuration breaks that render it almost completely unbootable simply by not forcing thy user to use BINARY CONFIGURATION DATABASES ONE CANNOT MANUALLY EDIT THEMSELVES WITH A SIMPLE TEXT EDITOR.
And don't even get me started on the fact that Windows file permissions are a horribly lame joke and thus even a poorly-written virus can wreak havoc on the Windows file system.
Lets not even approach the utter lack of decent ACL or MAC for Windows.
That is why Windows gets reinstalled so much, because once it fucks up, the repair options for the user or horribly limited because Microsoft can't even be bothered to make a well-designed operating system.
It's really no mystery why Linux is actually used more than Windows outside the desktop, and the only reason it's not used more than Windows on the desktop is Microsoft's abusive monopoly over it.