2006/7/14, Daniel Iliev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Linux can run trash even now. The funniest thing is that *trashers* don't know it and they think windows is irreplaceable for great many programs but that's not true...at least not any more.
And so I don't use windows. The only thing I miss is the perfect ICQ client. GAIM is nice, but I'm a bit tired of the away message issue. They just don't get it work. Kopete, well, they have a broken file transfer thing. And file transfers are more important for me than just showing people a bit of text. And I like CenterICQ. I have a linux box (I have tree linux boxes - all my boxes run linux (you know, I can't stand windows) except my notebook, but the ACPI support just sucks. I know, Linus. The ACPI designers are monkeys on drugs. We all know.) which I want to connect to wherever I am. And I want to run ICQ wherever I am. And I can't install VNC clients or nx-clients wherever I am. So I just run ssh or PuTTY. And it works. I just miss things like file transfers.
One of the most popular false beliefs is "linux can't run games".
I don't play computer games. But if someone sais this (and this happens from time to time), I run Nexuiz or Quake4-Demo or stuff. And everytime I show people: "Hey, you don't need windows to play games. And you see, this is an old box (PIII, 550MHz; AMD, 800MHz) which just runs this games without any problems". And then they are a bit impressed. Another thing: My scanner is connected to my father's computer. I personally don't have a scanner and I don't need it. Well, I scanned a picture with highest quality, which resulted in a 20MiB JPEG. I tried twice to open it with Windows (2,6GHz, 1GB RAM) and both times the machine just crashed. Then I went to my linux box, ran GIMP and everything was fine. And actually, GIMP used 30% of my RAM. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
