I Don’t Matter

If you have used Linux or had something to do with it, then you’ve probably stumbled upon tuxmachines.org. The website is dedicated to collecting informations about Linux and the phenomena related to Linux. You might think that’s ok, and it would be ok … but the website is not really about that.

90% of the articles they link to are total crap. You can’t even call them articles, they have no technical or literary value whatsoever. Most are simple blog post written by idiots that dream with their eyes wide shut to the moment when Linux will be the operating system of choice for desktop users. Some are even lamer than this, they actually think that nowadays Linux matters on the desktop.

To give just one example, two weeks ago according to w3counter Linux surpassed Windows 98 in market share. Of course, this was a proud headline on tuxmachines and the article soon had over 1000 votes on digg. The funny think is that the idiots didn’t even checked to see the big picture. Actually, Linux did not gain any market share, Windows 98 lost users. The digg-tards are actually enthusiastic and they already set the next target for their beloved operating system … believe it or not … they want to outmatch Windows Vista.

Everyday on tuxmachines you can read really cool news. You have about 3 articles about switching from Windows to Ubuntu and how great the experience was. Then you have about 2 articles that bash Windows and any other products that have anything to do with Microsoft … after all, you know what they say “It’s called Linux. It pronounced not Windows.” Next there are about 2 or 3 reviews of different Linux distributions in which they praise important revolutionary changes like a new wallpaper and they show the magnificent XGL cube to prove that Linux can do eye candy. There’s also the daily article about how Linux will conquer the world. The rest of the links point to articles in which Linux developers and users attack each other in the holly war of distros, basically a “mine is bigger than yours” contest … relax guys you all have small dicks. After 15 years of giving away your operating system you still have less than 1.5% of the market share.

Want to know why? It’s easy … Linux as a desktop operating system is absolute crap, in 2007 it barely offers more functionality than Windows 98. Windows Vista and Mac OSX are beautiful, functional and easy to use. Compare the font rendering in Vista to that in any Linux distribution. Compare the messy Gnome/KDE to the elegant interface of OSX. Compare the powerful control panel of Windows to KDE’s Control Center. More importantly compare the professional applications available for Windows and OSX to the cheap non-ergonomic and feature impaired products available for Linux (e.g. Adobe Photoshop CS3 vs GIMP).

Make the effort to read the stupidities posted on tuxmachines.org everyday … it’s going to be a fun, but deeply disturbing experience. You’ll laugh as you’ll find out how great Linux is, but you’ll also come to realize that Linux zealots are not just fanboys that care about a software products, they are actually living a collective delusion with no real basis.