I had a conversation with a *NIX hater last night. She hates Unix and / or Linux…but she can’t explain why. She is a born and bred Windows girl. She will not entertain the thought of anything different from what she is accustomed to. She is a “point and click check-box chick”, and she knows everything. She asked me what could be better than Windows? Look, I gave up on these conversations years ago, but I said “Pipes”, and I’m not talking about burning some rope. She has no idea what a command line is, or a pipe…no clue, and in the end it doesn’t matter. Actually, I could care less. So I showed her how to enter a command and take the result (output) and automatically feed (input) it to the next command, and so on, and so on, and so on. Pipes can be as long as needed, and you can script ‘em if you want. Anyway, pipes rock.
I don’t care what OS anyone chooses to use, I really don’t, but if you’re going to dog one over another, you need to get your ducks in a row.
Bottom line: I stopped providing “support” to personal friends a long time ago. It is not worth it. I just tell ‘em to hose it down and set it on the curb for collection. I broke my rule last night…I tried to help someone that was not able to be helped. Never again with a friend. I broke my own rule. Last time that will happen. I know nothing, and my papers are not in order. Try another route. I’m done.
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*nix provides the BEST web server imaginable. Never, ever, have I had a problem with Apache running on linux. It’s so god damn stable, you could tie a cinderblock to it, and sink it in 1,000 feet of water and it still would run. Running any type of PHP app (such as WordPress for example) on Windows is like trying to spit in the wind while coming out clean. It just doesn’t work as well as running it under Linux. Not to mention, the requirements for running a command line only version of Linux can allow for even a 486 to run it well enough to satisfy most uses. Let’s see Windows server do that (although Microsoft copied this feature in Windows Server 2008).
My site’s been going strong on Linux for over a year now, and I’ll never look back at any OS platform again. Oh yeah, I almost forgot … It’s damn hard to argue with the price, isn’t it? That alone speaks volumes.
Like you say .. COOL RUNNINGS!
I hear you loud and clear. I will never support friends running Windows. I broke my own rule last night…never again. If my friends need some help with Linux firewall scripts…I am not the man…I used to be, but I’m done with that shit as well. If my friends want some help with their computers…I just tell ‘em I don’t have a clue. I want to keep my friends, and doing computer “stuff” for ‘em is not the way to do it. I am out of the friendly support business.
I let my IT guy handle all these things. Ha!
Smart Girl!
Linux…I can’t live without it.
I’m lucky, though. ArmedGeek helps me out with it, and I never argue with genius
You’re a lucky girl…having the ArmedGeek to look after your bits and bytes. Buy him a beer for me.
The difference between Linux and Windows, is like the difference between a thermonuclear bomb, and throwing stones.