{"id":1076,"date":"2011-12-31T16:23:25","date_gmt":"2011-12-31T16:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/?p=1076"},"modified":"2012-01-03T12:08:40","modified_gmt":"2012-01-03T12:08:40","slug":"45654","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/?p=1076","title":{"rendered":"Why Desktop Linux sucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an incendiary tirade Bryan Lunduke, who absolutely hates open source and Linux (and his grandparents), rants fanatically about <strong>why we should all use Windows<\/strong> and details a plot to kill Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds (and, gramps and mee-ma).  Yesiree Bob &#8211; this character&#8217;s a bona-fide whack job.  Okay &#8211; <strong><em>not really<\/em><\/strong>.  Just like me, he thinks Linux is swell.  In this episode he just takes an honest look at the shortcomings of Linux, currently, as a Desktop computing environment &#8211; and, well, there&#8217;s plenty to talk about. Hope you brought a sandwich (this is about 35 minutes). <strong>Tech note:<\/strong> I tried to capture and crunch this audio on Scientific Linux, with Audacity, but I could never make it work&#8230;&#8230;so I used Adobe Audtion on Server 2008 (note to Steve Ballmer: I don&#8217;t get it &#8211; I got my first &#8220;Power Shell&#8221;, free, with Redhat 7.3!). Anyway, it was quick, and, simple &#8211; and I&#8217;d never used Adobe Audition in my life (honest &#8211; and thank you, BitTorrent). I even did some fancy-shmancy music fade-ins\/fade-outs. I feel like quite the &#8220;audio engineer&#8221;. I hate it when things are simple, and well, they just work. <strong>Not really&#8230;.<\/strong> Oh &#8211; and Adobe Inc.: the check is in the mail. Uhm&#8230;.maybe Adobe is right about &#8220;those Linux people&#8221;. Wow &#8211; this Adobe shit is expensive.<br \/>\n<P>[audio:http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/upper_linux.mp3]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an incendiary tirade Bryan Lunduke, who absolutely hates open source and Linux (and his grandparents), rants fanatically about why we should all use Windows and details a plot to kill Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds (and, gramps and mee-ma). Yesiree Bob &#8211; this character&#8217;s a bona-fide whack job. Okay &#8211; not really. Just like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"h5ap_radio_sources":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}