🚀 go-pugleaf

On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 00:21:04 +0000, mark <marknot@thisaddress.com>
wrote:


>Enjoy Ubuntu I bet that in 6 months or so you will be wondering why on 
>earth you bothered with the all the problems that windows has to offer 
>like Viruses, trojans, worms and the nightmare that is installing 
>windows software (just wait until you use Synaptic to install stuff).
>Anyway with a dual boot you cant loose.

I've been on Windows platforms since 3.1.  I'm a software developer
and gamer.  I've never had a virus, trojan or other nasties.  If
you're geek enough to install Linux, then you're probably geek enough
to practice safe computing and should never get a virus either.

Oh yeah, I also don't have any form of anti-virus software installed,
nor do I have a software firewall.  

And because I'm a gamer, I wouldn't touch *nix with a 10 foot pole.
Yeah, Epic is nice enough to provide ports, but most games don't.  It
would piss me off to the n'th extreme to be sitting on the sidelines
and not able to play some game because it hasn't been (or never will
be) ported to *nix.  Sure, I might be able to run it (poorly) under
emulation like Wine, but what's the point in that?

I won't even bother with my need to run all MS office apps and various
other pieces of software in order to support my clients, none of which
have ever been ported to *nix.

And I'm a software developer who did a fair share of work on Unix
based systems, although my main thrust is the IBM midrange platform
(which uses a proprietary OS).  So I'm not afraid of alternative OS's,
it's just that I'm not going to torture myself trying to use them in a
gaming or business support environment.

There's certainly nothing wrong with Linux, but recommending it to
gamers seems counterintuitive, unless the only game you ever plan to
play is UT.

So there.  :P