The Blog Of Dysfunction

I was going through Ubuntu forums, and not surprisingly there was a 72 page long “what do you miss in ubuntu” thread, basically about stuff people miss after porting from windows.
Photoshop, Itunes, Games, powerful DVD and Audio ripping software, are some of the commonest software people seem to miss the most.
My personal list stops at [...]

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Yes that’s right folks. Lets not kid ourselves. Linux is not a democracy. Linux is anarchy. Everyone going in their own damn directions. It’s not about working together. It’s about works for me! It’s not Yes We Can, it’s Yes I Can. Link

Early in my adventures with linux, i realized that for linux to have [...]

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I was fooling around trying to make a hot key for my tomboy notes, when i discovered that if you press the <start> button and “n” the window you have open goes black like this
Did not find this in a quick Google search

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I dont know if this really qualifies as [...]

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I do not have the gift of tongues
I speak English, Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil, some Bengali and some Telugu, but not Geekese. I will not be able to install the damn thing if it’s not in easily understandable language. Shame on you, the evil autocrat Microsoft is more user friendly than you.
Lean is in,
Bundle the [...]

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Whoever thought that a day would come when I would actually blog from linux!!
Ubuntu is up, and functioning well. Guess why? Old man got me a DSL cable for my comp. All it takes to get ubuntu up and running is an internet connection and lots of patience while it uploads its gazillions of updates [...]

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This Post was suppposed to have been up ten days ago. 
What can I say, I finally managed to install ubuntu but I don’t know if I am the conqueror or the conquered.
Ubuntu is different from windows. There, I did it, I just won the Captain Eric Moody understatement prize.
I dont understand [...]

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Linux is NOT for the uninitiated. In fact it is not for anyone who is not already good at command line magic or has lots of energy and time to expend.
I agree it looks way cooler, and it is open source and as a philosophy it has no equal, but user friendly? NO WAY.
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