Linux Sucks – Linux Installation Party – 1st Lesson
Linux Sucks – Linux Installation Party – 1st Lesson
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Linux Sucks
A User Friendly
Linux Installation Party
No gimmicks.
It just sucks.
1st Lesson
It's really ugly!!
Corel
Linux
1999
Ubuntu
6.06
2006
Arch
Linux
2015
2nd Lesson
It's hard to install software
The Microsoft Windows Recipe
Find the Website Find the Download Button- Don't click the ads.
- Don't step on the spyware
- Be quick, it can be in another page
See? It wasn't that hard, was it?
Wrong.
It's really
f*cking
difficult!!
Presenting
Software
Centers
(Those things you
love on your mobile)
- Quick search.
- Downloads and installs.
- Multiple donwloads
- Fast process
- Easy uninstall
There's one in
(almost)
every distro.
Terminal install
also available.
No Annoying Toolbars
Period.
3rd Lesson
I can't play games
Steam
60 games in February 2013.
822 games currently.
644 confirmed.
Guess what?
Some even run more smoothly.
Steam OS
Valve's huge contribution to the "Great Linux Desktop Conquest".
Available on multiple platforms.
Significant performance increase in graphics.
Features the "rock-solid architecture of Linux".
4th Lesson
It's too difficult
Stop
Whining
Nothing is ever easy...
Well, until you TRY IT!
It's NOT
That Hard
You use Android.
You use OS X.
Do you think they are hard to handle?
Android also has a Linux kernel
5th Lesson
Can I Go To Facebook Already?
Not right now, we're in the middle of a presentation
But we have Chrome, Chromium, Opera and Firefox on Linux....
..and we DON'T have Internet Explorer
6th Lesson
"Everybody" uses windows
Or do they?
Developers
Developers in windows
You will be a developer
You can use Windows but it could will
give you a far harder time.
It's up to you though!
7th Lesson
Proprietary software is trustworthy
lol
No system is immune to virus
However....
2.600.000.000 Code red Worm
9.100.000.000 Conficker Worm
15.000.000.000 I LOVE YOU worm
+ 38.000.000.000 MyDoom worm
$64.700.000.000
Why doesn't it happen on Linux?
1. Linux is awesome.
Why doesn't it happen on Linux?
2. Linux has a well built architecture.
Why doesn't it happen on Linux?
3. Linux has a low desktop market-share.
3.1 Why bother attacking Linux when you can target far more fragile architectures with higher desktop market-share?
Why doesn't it happen on Linux?
4. Linux has a permission system:
4.1. Only those with root access can change the file system.
4.2. Yeah...We don't cause billions of dollars of damage...Repeatedly...
Why doesn't it happen on Linux?
5. Linux distributions send new releases very quickly, patching existing problems.
Why doesn't it happen on Linux?
6. Linux has a wonderfull community, with many developers, that help it flourish.
8th Lesson
The terminal is scary
TERMINAL
=
SUPERPOWERS
Old Linux saying
Where there is a Shell,
there's a way.
9th Lesson
There are so many distributions
So Many
Football Teams
There's one for every taste.
And they all compete to improve!
Too old to upgrade
Too awesome to Downgrade
No need to stick to old sotfware, there are dozens of Distros for slower computers.
96,4% of all Supercomputers use Linux.
10th Lesson
Open Source
Open source is awesome.
Would you rather...
Have a dozen of developers
correcting problems and adding features
or...
thousands of developers doing the same?
Linux Law
"Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" ~ Linux Torvalds
Android Kernel Defects
The Android Kernel was release as Open Source.
Not long after, the community discovered several defects and helped fix them.
You can trust open source software
You can always know what's happening with the code.
You can be sure it's not malicious.
You can change, tweak and improve it.
You have the power.
Now let's get you some linux, shall we?
Thank you.
You are awesome.
Linux Sucks
A User Friendly
Linux Installation Party