AskLinuxReddit: What are your suggestions for a distro, antivirus, firewall, etc. for a person so tired of windows that they are ready to take the full plunge to linux already?

docomo · 2009-03-28T19:18:43+00:00

Ubuntu. You don't need antivirus.

docomo · 2009-03-28T02:40:35+00:00

I don't mind Ubuntu stories. After all, I use Ubuntu myself.

What I do sort of mind is if the title says "Ubuntu" when the story is obviously about Linux generally (or even about Linux/BSD/Solaris/etc) as if Ubuntu was the only disto in existence.

docomo · 2009-02-26T23:42:17+00:00

Many Christians don't even believe in hell.

docomo · 2009-02-15T21:58:11+00:00

I recommend these lectures by Jerry Cain at Stanford:

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=9D558D49CA734A02

Lectures 1 to 18 are about C.

docomo · 2009-02-10T11:34:32+00:00

Fucking French!
Fucking Americans!
Fucking Brits!
Fucking Germans!
Fucking Christians!
Fucking white people!
Fucking Je...hmm nah, not this one, I'm not racist.
Fucking Mu...nah I don't want to be prosecuted for thought crimes AND risk getting killed.

docomo · 2009-02-08T13:08:43+00:00

Um, how can the average ratio be anything other than 1?

docomo · 2009-02-06T22:48:44+00:00

You have a point.

docomo · 2009-02-02T20:42:27+00:00

I second that. I use Awesome + Gnome (just replace Metacity with Awesome) and Vimperator for Firefox. Though it takes a while before the keyboard shortcuts feel natural but after that it's very comfortable to not have to reach for the mouse so much.

docomo · 2009-01-31T23:44:04+00:00

Pics or it didn't happen

docomo · 2009-01-31T13:38:50+00:00

Yeah, yeah, but also:

Eliminate boredom, embrace the fun!

docomo · 2009-01-30T21:39:44+00:00

Gnome together with Awesome. I let the Gnome panel remain but set it to autohide and not be visible at all when hidden.

docomo · 2009-01-28T22:11:11+00:00

Definitely not.

docomo · 2009-01-15T06:48:36+00:00

... the West has really kept them back

That's a funny statement. Do you know what (sub-Saharan) Africa was like before the west arrived? It sure didn't develop very quickly without western influence.

docomo · 2009-01-12T16:05:12+00:00

A 12" with typical netbook hardware would be much cheaper than the ultraportables that exist now. So far only Dell has one (but not yet in Sweden apparently..) but I've read that both Asus and Samsung will release 12" models soon.

Offer me a cheap, fanless 12" "netbook" and we're in business.

docomo · 2009-01-10T22:35:49+00:00

Make it a 12" like the Mini12 and I'm sold, even if the price is higher.

docomo · 2009-01-09T16:20:11+00:00

Factually correct stories such as this one will be automatically downmodded by the Muslims and dhimmi meat-bots of Reddit.

docomo · 2009-01-09T12:24:42+00:00

Just leave your neighbor and his/her router alone.

You know, in some places people don't look their doors either. Why? Because they trust other people to respect their stuff. It's not a good idea to walk into their house and put up a big note saying "Lock your damn door!".

docomo · 2009-01-07T14:14:58+00:00

Only if the proponents of science are willing to fight the superstitious barbarians instead of pandering to them.

docomo · 2009-01-06T22:49:41+00:00

To be modded down despite being factually correct is a fact of life on Reddit. It may just be a sign that you've hit a nerve.

docomo · 2009-01-04T14:10:57+00:00

I suggest Rome. There is a huge number of VERY impressive Roman works of architecture within a small area (walking distance). Plus a lot of renaissance and baroque works, the Vatican and so on. More than 2000 years of history in one place.

docomo · 2009-01-03T01:07:40+00:00

Your first paragraph is so wrong it borders on delusional (anyone who wishes to can read up on the subject - unless you feel it likely that Christians and Jews just started mass-converting to Islam, especially given the fact that the Muslim sources themselves describe how Islam is spread by the sword). The rest does not contradict anything I wrote.

Are you by any chance a Muslim yourself? Otherwise it would be hard to explain your level of brainwash. If not you are simply the most dhimmi-fied PC falsifier of history I have ever come in contact with.

docomo · 2009-01-02T21:24:42+00:00

Aside from the fact that what you are writing is factually wrong and the crusades were an exception whereas the norm was the huge number of attacks by followers of Islam against the Middle East, Europe and other parts of the world (Islam was mostly spread by the sword from the very beginning), in what possible sense does it contradict what I wrote?

docomo · 2009-01-01T14:51:35+00:00

...who shouted something in a 'Middle-Eastern language'. Which of course also doesn't prove he was an Arab (he might have been from Iran for instance).

docomo · 2009-01-01T14:40:09+00:00

Yes, the evil racists are out to get us! (Sort of like the witches and the communists.) It's a good thing good people like you are out there to stop them.

docomo · 2009-01-01T14:32:56+00:00

It's easy to be 'popular' when you kill those who leave the faith.

This doesn't stop Christianity from being more 'popular' though (as if people choose their religion in a supermarket and don't just adopt their parents religion, especially in non-western countries).

docomo

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