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Dan Gilmor on moving to Linux
40hz:
@Innuendo
Steam for Linux has been available for quite awhile now. But just because Steam is available doesn't mean everything has been ported over to run on Linux by the authors of the software.
Re: the flame war
What set off the OS flame war was Steve Ballmer calling Linux un-American, anti-business, and the equivalent of malware in response to its own user's complaints about the numerous performance and technical issues that plagued Windows 8.
When Linux began to be seen as a viable alternative by many in the tech community, Microsoft responded with a full court smear campaign that was heavy on FUD and short on substance. They also threatened legal action for a variety of nonsensical reasons - and pushed for government intervention in halting the "threat" that Linux and FOSS posed to the community at large.
Any explosive responses from the Linux community were in direct response to that rather than simple snark since Microsoft made no bones about their intent to either co-opt Linux and GNU, or litigate /legislate it out of existence by any means necessary.
The Linux camp has always argued for peaceful coexistence. Microsoft has always refused to do anything to facilitate that happening in a meaningful and practical manner - despite their repeated token assurances that their intentions are nothing like what their actions indicate their goal truly is.
If the Nix community sees fit to call bullshit on Microsoft, and publicly question the intelligence of those Windows users who continue to make excuses for Microsoft, about all I can suggest is some Windows users learn to grow a thicker skin. Lord knows the Linux community has been forced to do just that in the wake of Microsoft's unilateral declaration of war - and the ongoing disinformation campaign that continues to be conducted against it by the corporation and its shills in the tech press.
Linux is easy to use by anyone with enough intelligence to use Windows or any other OS. If people choose not to see or believe that, then so be it.
:)
40hz:
Well the delivery of malware is by and large a Linux issue, now of course the user executes it on his/her local Windows machine but still.
-rgdot (March 05, 2016, 11:35 AM)
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How so?
Tuxman:
The funny thing is that we from "the Nix community" (not "Nux"...) never make similar experiences. Must be you.
rgdot:
Well the delivery of malware is by and large a Linux issue, now of course the user executes it on his/her local Windows machine but still.
-rgdot (March 05, 2016, 11:35 AM)
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How so?
-40hz (March 05, 2016, 03:05 PM)
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How many percent of infected sites that spread malware are on Linux servers? Not far from 100%.
wraith808:
@Innuendo
Steam for Linux has been available for quite awhile now. But just because Steam is available doesn't mean everything has been ported over to run on Linux by the authors of the software.
-40hz (March 05, 2016, 02:59 PM)
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Steam being on Linux means next to nothing without the games being there as it's only a distribution platform, and Gabe Newell knows this, and as such, is championing that effort. I could be wrong, but I think that's what Innuendo was referring to- especially since he brought up Fallout 4 which is noticeably not on Linux.
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/38i0x8/fallout_4_any_hope_for_us/
The fight doesn't stop with the distribution platform being there. Gabe Newell still fights behind the scenes to bring parity. But it's a hard fight.
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