[clue-talk] my latest guilty pleasure -- Linuxhaters Blog

[Sean LeBlanc]

On 07-25 14:38, Nate Duehr wrote:
> This guy's blog was brought to my attention this week, and it's 
> hilarious.  Great stuff.
> 
> http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com
> 
> [Content warning: He's a foul-mouth, sarcastic, and grumpy as hell... 
> all part of the show.  Maybe NSFW, depending on your particular W place.]
> 
> He really gets to the crux of not just Linux problems, but problems with 
> computing in general.  His article "The Fallacy of Choice" is classic.
> 
> http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/2008/07/fallacy-of-choice.html
> 
> I've been sneaking in some "me" time every night this week to continue 
> backward through his posts.  I laugh out loud at almost every one of them.
> 
> And the more I read it... the more I realize I wasn't alone in my 
> thinking that Linux as a Desktop OS... really does suck... for those who 
> don't want 1000 "choices" as to what they want to do, and who actually 
> want things to work when they use them, etc.
> 
> I used to spend night after night after night configuring, tweaking, and 
> playing with Linux desktops... and I got exactly what he talks about as 
> a theme in his postings... a broken desktop that some dumb developer 
> somewhere broke (yet again) at every release of [insert distro-du-jour 
> here] I was using, where nothing ever got better, but lately -- the 
> windows can jiggle!  Did you see the windows jiggle??
> 
> Nope.  Never loaded compwiz, and don't care.  Do we have a reasonable 
> replacement for Excel or Visio yet?  No?  Okay, I'll be over in my 
> virtual machine doing some real work... sorry.  Got things to do.
> 
> [Deep breath]... I think this guy is really me blogging in my sleep.
> 
> This short one about the current state of Ubuntu made me giggle:
> http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/2008/06/ubuntu-rants-heard-round-community-ver.html
> 
> And he got right to the bottom-line (pun intended) in this one:
> http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/2008/06/cha-ching.html
> 
> I hate to sound like a troll, but I think there's some folks here who 
> really have been frustrated with Linux -- seriously frustrated -- and 
> this guy does at least call out the BS the "community" expounds...
> 
> "It'll be better because it's community tested!"... uh-huh...
> "You have all sorts of choices"... yeah, that's great but do any of them 
> WORK?
> 
> ... Etc.
> 
> Read it whatever way you like, as entertainment, or a real rant, or as a 
> kindred thinker, or a complete loon... but he's right on a lot of things...
> 
> It was just too on the mark not to share.
> 
> His "How to make a GNOME App" is bloody brilliant, too...
> http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/2008/06/how-to-write-gnome-application.html

I started reading a few posts. This reminds me of BileBlog (for Java) and a
little more explicit version of the Unix Haters Handbook.
 


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