This has been driving me NUTS lately.

[demented-pants.livejournal.com]

Am I the only one noticing a trend lately wherein people everywhere seem to be going, "Oh, windows is so insecure and awful, I'll switch to Macs, they're better," without having a damn clue what they're talking about? When pressed, sure, they might say, "Macs don't get viruses," which is (of course) a fallacy, or, "Windows crashes all the time..."

Regardless, they switch to macs and then they're totally illiterate and I have to help them figure out wtf they're doing. And then when everything doesn't JUST WORK ZOMG like they're expecting it to, it's somehow *still* Windows' fault, somehow.

Ugh. I'm not advocating for one above the other. I use Mac, Windows, and Linux all three, though I have a definite preference for Windows, personally. Use what works for you.

But for fuck's sake can we all have a little bit less of that annoying superiority?

Comments

[simoncion.livejournal.com]

...your last interaction with linux required two separate compiles which brought you to the LILO prompt...
^^^ There's the issue. LILO sucks, hard-core. They should be using GRUB wherever possible! :D

[japester.livejournal.com]

There was a time when there was no grub. it was lilo, or write your own bootloader. Lilo doesn't suck, it's just not as pretty or menu enabled like grub.

[simoncion.livejournal.com]

Heh. I was under the impression that lilo didn't understand the filesystem of its boot partition and had to have a magic command run to update notion of the sector offset for each OS's boot sector each time you changed your partition layout. (or something... it's late and my memory is fuzzy.) Regardless, it seems like it has a sane config file and my recollection of the magic command is incorrect. I retract my comment as to LILO's suckitude. It seems like a decent tool.