- Aptitude has a GUI interface that lets you search packages like it were the App Store. Not exactly hard to use.
- Resolved by GUI interface as stated above.
- At least Linux handles dependencies for you. Be glad you don't have to screw with stuff like that in Windows.
- 99% of the time deps are fine. I've almost never have gotten a legitimate dependencies issue that couldn't be resolved with "apt-get update" which GUI aptitude runs when you start it.
- Now your just ranting and not making a point.
- Same as #5.
- Remember, GUI. Single button saying "Distro upgrade," on Ubuntu.
- Sure.
- Ugh, drivers. This is the only thing I'll agree upon. Managing drivers in Linux sucks but, if you don't upgrade, they always seem to work. You run into the most issues when manually installing drivers and not using the package manager though...
- Haven't seen this happen in 5 years.
- At this point you gave up if something went wrong.
- GParted usually does an okay job, however, I'll agree that it gparted tends to bork up however, if it's making drives unbootable, you probably did something on installation to make that happen. I've had a lot of issues with GParted but, destroying data isn't one of those problems unless you told it to.
- Sure.
My point here is that you explained everything that can go wrong and in most cases it doesn't. Ubuntu has been getting a lot better with usability over the years and I have seen normal people use Ubuntu. People complain because they're not used to it but, if a normal person if forced to use it, they'll learn how to update, use a browser, and do thing very quickly. Before I graduated from college I saw a lot of non-technical people who would ask for help on their laptop and it would be running Ubuntu because daddy installed it or it came with their Dell.
Side note: I've seen people kill drives with the Windows installer partitioning tool too.
Too slow. Zeros are faster to generate and most drives don't do 4k chunks very quickly.
Code:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=4M
I don't agree with blue knight on things often, but this is one of those things. People like what is familiar. I've seen plenty of people learn how to use Ubuntu without too much issue to do regular things (browser, office, music, etc.)
However, I'm still a little annoyed that blue-knight won't even describe why he doesn't like Windows 8.1 while saying that it's so bad. Something can't be so bad if you can't say what's bad about it. I think someone needs to read Dr. Suess' Green Eggs and Ham; "I do not like them, Sam-I-Am!" When in reality, he hasn't ever tried green eggs and ham and when he does, they're delicious.
So I'm siding with
@newtekie1 on this one. I'm calling you out until you explain to us why you feel so strongly because without reason, you just look like someone who doesn't like change.
Linux has gotten a bit easier to use over the years. Most of the time, pointing and clicking does most of what you need it to do. If some girl who's an education major and isn't technical in any way, shape or form, can learn to use Linux and not have a problem with it, I think other people can too. Just like Blue-Knight, you're getting super worked up about this when you probably haven't dived into Linux recently. It sounds like your experience may be dated.
Edit: I'm getting the distinct impression that people are making mountains out of mole hills when it comes Windows 10 and Linux. So many of these claims are simply astonishing.
On topic: I happen to know that the local hospital is moving to Win7 as we speak, they may have already upgraded even.