Lusotec stated in post jdeml5$9a5$
1...@dont-email.me on 12/28/11 2:14 AM:
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> Snit wrote:
>> See: this is how the herd is. Spewing insults and accusations and more.
>> With Chris, I recently noted how absurd a claim of his was - and now he is
>> on a rampage spewing BS about me. Here was the claim:
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>> Almost every function you find on Mac or Windows is available
>> on Linux.
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>> When faced with the fact that this was silly, Chris Ahlstrom went bonkers
>> and went on the attack. Weird.
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> Again with this? You are a lying broken record!
Oh! Oh! Show how it is a lie! Show where Chris backed this absurd claim
of his.
But you will not. You, and your herd, will run from it... then whine that I
have not fallen for your BS and just let your running be ignored - I am
actually calling you and yours out on your BS claims.
And even you know Chris's claim is utter BS... if it was not you would show
I was wrong to say so by defending it. You know you cannot. You know I am
right.
So here you are, knowing I am right but still claiming otherwise - just to
suck up to the herd. It is what your herd demands.
> Chris claim is true and you, Snit, supported his claim with your own list of
> 3rd party software or features that are available in GNU/Linux. Ignoring the
> facts does not make you right. Just makes you a liar.
If you thought his claim was true you would defend it. You would show where
I was wrong in my list of counter-examples to Chris's claim. Here it is
again so you can show me how "wrong" I am:
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Aha! So you are willing to take me up on the challenge that Chris Ahlstrom
has not. Excellent... and to be clear, I will select none I do not use on
at least a fairly regular basis... and none that are all that rare. And so
I am not comparing desktop Linux to a group of compeitors, all are on OS X.
Also, to be fair, Chris did allow for *some* things not being available on
Linux... so let us say you need to find only 10 of the 12 items... fair
enough? Items that come with a distro or in its repository (if not that
kills the benefit of the repository, right?) Here they are.
1 Excellent screencasting software, similar to ScreenFlow
2 Anything like the media browser, a tool which helps novices and
advanced users alike.
3 Anything like Automator: allowing non-programmers to "program"
relatively complex tasks.
4 Anything like Tofu, allowing easier online screen reading
5 Tool to spellcheck a website (DreamCatcher)
6 PDF Services: and just before Peter runs in on this one, I am
not talking about Print-to-PDF
7 Email program with build in attachment viewing and slide shows.
8 Presentation software that allows for the relatively easy
creation of video-presentations similar to these:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qodM2lCWiVw>
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvrpuBAMddw>
9 Ability to find path from almost any window in any program
(not just the file browser, most programs)
10 proxy icons: allowing for moving, attaching, copying of a
a file from its open window
11 System Services: allowing you to tap into features of one
program from within almost any other
12 Something similar to iWeb or RapidWeaver: super quick
web development
And I could go on and on and on: nothing on Linux like Photoshop or
Dreamweaver, nothing on Linux that works as well with one of the most
popular phones or the most popular MP3 players, nothing on Linux like Time
Machine (allowing you to get back data using the same UI as your media
organization apps shows you), nothing like Pages or MS Office, I have seen
no speech recognition worth using on Linux, many games, etc.
This also leaves out significant UI issues such as no standard naming or hot
keys for many common elements... you might have that on some systems if you
stick to KDE or Gnome, but no doubt you will kill that as you try to fulfill
the above (even if you can find such a system to start of with).
So there you go - start with a distro and tell me what software to add. Let
us see how many you can show work even *almost* as well on desktop Linux.
I look forward to it. Thanks for having more guts than Chris Ahlstrom does.
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But you and your whole herd will run. It is all you can do because you know
I am right. Better get some really clever name calling thought of... how
else can you obfuscate how you know I am right?
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