Re: Programmer knowledge

From: Rampage (no_at_spam.com)
Date: 03/23/04 

Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 22:57:08 GMT

>>
>> I totally agree on the portability part. No doubt. But Windows
>> going to the wall in favor of Linux? ;)
>>
> People are waking up to the fact that if we don't do something then
> pretty soon Bill Gates will have all the money, and the world economic
> system will collapse.
> Since Linux is free then there is no chance that adopting it will
> simply cause a Microsoft2 to arise with a similar monopoly.
> Governments and individuals are increasingly going for Linux. My
> sister, for instance, will not use Windows. Personally I've never used
> it since I need MS for compatibility. However I used to have an Irix
> machine and it crashed maybe two or three times in two years of doing
> development on it. (OTOH one of those crashes was caused simply by
> over-filling a graphics pipeline, which is not the height of
> stability). Windows crashes every other day.
>
>
>

I've tried Linux. It did not work. I had to do some serious programming
and searching the net JUST to get my drivers to work, and I still lost
tons of features supported as -standard- in Windows. Then we're off to
the GUIs. The GUI's were a mess. There were multiple libraries stacked
one in another, on top of the X API itself.

So I finally get it set up, and I start looking around for this supposed
"free software." I download some IDE's for C programming and they all
look and feel like Windows 3.1 software, and some of them didn't even run
because of incompatibility with my distribution of Linux.

I thought to myself, if I ever make anything that I want to distribute,
it probably won't work on half the systems out there. The solution:
distribute your code, too. I don't like open source. I don't like
distributing my code.

Then we have the output from some of these programs. Every app tells me
every little insignificant detail about what it's doing. I could care
less what it's doing. Just tell me if it failed and why, otherwise it
should STFU!

Linux is a nightmare. If there is some way to make it work dependably, I
don't know it. I wish I did, though, because I would use it. But it's
just too much of a mess. It's like a bunch of nerds just got together and
said, "Hey, us nerds need an OS that can only be operated by other nerds
and produces nerdy output and doesn't support any hardware or software."
That's my take on it.

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