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Just to add fire to #anti-CISPA : Microsoft and Facebook are supporters.
Wednesday, 18-Apr-12 18:24:16 UTC from Choqok-
@omni I hate microsoft a billion times over and Facebook is not in my favourable column of companies :D #YouWontFindMeOnFacebook
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Wednesday, 18-Apr-12 18:26:51 UTC from Choqok
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@omni Yup, although I'm nowhere near a good pony, I'm on Windows 7, but a legally aquired copy that cost nothing to me and the pony I got it from; I should be on linux but i'm not secure enough to abandon my games ;_; #Iamweak
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@twispark Could start off with dual-booting. Desura is your friend, and there are enough interesting games to find on Linux game sites (though most don't look that professional as AAA titles, they are surely fun)
Wednesday, 18-Apr-12 18:30:50 UTC from Choqok-
@omni Yea to be honest I don't know why I haven't switched, I think my indecision doesn't help, I pick one distro then I want another for it's KDE(Chakra?) or it's managers(openSUSE?) or other unique features or I get annoyed at software instability(Ubuntu?) or I get annoyed by software outdatedness(debian?)... THE LINUX WORLD IS NOT FOR THE INDECISIVE UNFORTUNETLY. I was thinking about installing the Ubuntu 12.04 beta2 since that seems to be getting hype about being all amazing and refined for the desktop
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@twispark If you're fine with taking the time to built your system from scratch, why not Arch Linux? You'll take the best parts from all distributions you like :P
Wednesday, 18-Apr-12 18:36:07 UTC from Choqok-
@omni *pukes* No thanks, I was a fan of that but it's too much effort for me right now, it also can take TOO much effort just to mod your desktop (when you havent done it before) but Arch is too different and too bleeding edge for me, that's a hobbiest/dev's distro rly
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@twispark Okay, that's fine and completely understandable. Why not just try several in a Virtual Machine until you have decided?
Wednesday, 18-Apr-12 18:38:51 UTC from Choqok-
@omni That's certainly a sensible decision and I have done that a lot but it always comes down to something small which I guess I just need to get over, for example openSUSE was great BUT the way it displayed font weirded out my eyes, it almost looked kinda thin for some reason. Windows have an annoyingly low tollerance for letting your mouse resize them which im not fond of, when playing with themes and such it always seems to easy to break stuff where there are no Reset buttons so you're left with the buttons in different places or something
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@twispark I've got almost 30Gb of Linux .isos downloaded right now..
Wednesday, 18-Apr-12 18:36:51 UTC from web-
@eaglehooves lul I have similar
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@twispark I'm on Win 7 too. I have a dual boot, but I never use it, since everything is so established and stable on Windows.
Wednesday, 18-Apr-12 18:32:54 UTC from web-
@eaglehooves Ok well, I don't agree with that, I've used PC's hard all my life and I can feel the crappy kernel at work, I get the errors that tells me how this crappy NTFS can't handle long or complex filenames, I am aware of how much Microsoft is screwing all of the world in the freedom dimension aswell as in our faces! I'm just a bit nooby when it comes to settling with a decision, I also like to tweak and tbh gnu/linux OS give you SO MUCH freedom that you can break a bit too much a bit too easilly for my liking sometimes ^^;
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@twispark I have CS5 and some engineering software my major pretty much requires me to have. Wine threw a fit when I tried to install them on it. Only time I crashed any of those was when I fed Mathematica an infinite loop on accident (it was 4am).
Wednesday, 18-Apr-12 18:39:09 UTC from web-
@eaglehooves Lul, I think you're making an argument for Windows' stability, I'm not saying it falls over whenever you run a big program on it (not anymore) but it's not the best for me, the linux kernel is designed to be beaten straight in the everywhere with everything you have to throw at and beat it with, Windows' kernel is just good enough for most things but it's certainly a bottleneck (along with the whole OS itself) sometimes, I'm a big multitasker and that's what Linux is good at (the Internet runs linux, it has to be good at fast varied stuffs) :D Also back to freedom, Windows has none, Microsoft works to crush freedom, GNU/Linux distros are prettymuch 99.999% free software (you can purge that tiny closed-source componant and have 100% freedom if you wish)
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@twispark Between not running the software I need and not supporting decent parts of my hardware, Linux just puts down a remarkably poor showing on my laptop. The added benefit of the latest drivers actually gives the overall edge to Windows (vs Ubuntu at least).
Wednesday, 18-Apr-12 18:47:48 UTC from web-
@eaglehooves I think Laptops are more of an issue because the hardware is usually more difficult to make free drivers for because the configuations in laptops can vary so much manufacturers don't bother making it easier for the free software guys to get the drivers right; at least that's what I hear
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@eaglehooves BTW as if on cue my Windows 7 machine (all very new still componants, nice fast powerful gaming machine) froze for a minute, I wasnt doing anyhting, video was on VLC, Chrome many tabs, VM, GIMP and such but at that moment I wasn't doing anything lol
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@tavi Linux or OS X then?
Wednesday, 18-Apr-12 18:28:26 UTC from web -
@tavi According to Avaaz.org they are: http://is.gd/kdNnIP
Wednesday, 18-Apr-12 18:29:53 UTC from Choqok -
@tavi EVE works on Linux through Wine. I think I could drop windows easily (then again not like I payed for it so they got no support from me)
Wednesday, 18-Apr-12 18:29:59 UTC from web-
@mrdragon You're helping them to be able to say "Windows is the most dominant platform" due to useragent reporting, for example, though that is very little support it is some support
Wednesday, 18-Apr-12 18:31:28 UTC from Choqok
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