Bye Bye Linux (Ubuntu), Hi Again Windows

Re:Bye Bye Linux (Ubuntu), Hi Again Windows by dryicerx on Tuesday September 01, 2009 @01:30PM (#798425)

Unfortunately one of your problems is reliance on Microsoft Products and specific hardware even when you were switched to Linux, such as Office/Outlook and products such as the Dell Docking Station and Multi Function Printers who doesn't support any *nix, and Cisco VPN (look in to vpnc). That's like comparing using Windows and trying to get KOffice and Cygwin working on Windows and benchmarking so.

You pick a platform, and start using the tools associated natively with it.

Linux isn't a good suite for everyone, and definitely not in this case.

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Re:Bye Bye Linux (Ubuntu), Hi Again Windows by branden on Tuesday September 01, 2009 @02:03PM (#798503)

Yeah, the VPN paragraph had me laughing. Surely one of those 14 blogs should've mentioned "sudo apt-get install network-manager-vpnc". VPN is a breeze on Ubuntu.

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Re:Bye Bye Linux (Ubuntu), Hi Again Windows by amrith on Tuesday September 01, 2009 @03:12PM (#798642)

Yes, I saw that but it doesn’t work too well if you can’t use Network Manager to begin with.

See bug 55434 that I reported in december about this.

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/55434

I had to switch to WiCD which did allow me to do WiFi at work.

Now, it may be possible that I could use network-manager-vpnc with WiCD but I couldn’t find a way to do that.

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Re:Bye Bye Linux (Ubuntu), Hi Again Windows by branden on Tuesday September 01, 2009 @03:53PM (#798741)

Ok, that's legitimate. But it sounds like your complaint is really with network manager, not Ubuntu's VPN support. And hey, at least you have a place to report bugs :)

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Re:Bye Bye Linux (Ubuntu), Hi Again Windows by amrith on Monday September 07, 2009 @09:23PM (#810058)

There, my friend, you have a point!

Yes, my grouse is with Network Manager but that is really a distinction without a difference. I have a problem with Ubuntu by extension.

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Re:Bye Bye Linux (Ubuntu), Hi Again Windows by tvon on Tuesday September 01, 2009 @02:24PM (#798548)

> Linux isn't a good suite for everyone

I believe this was his point, that Linux is not ready for mainstream use.

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Re:Bye Bye Linux (Ubuntu), Hi Again Windows by khill on Tuesday September 01, 2009 @02:30PM (#798557)

"Not good for everyone" doesn't mean "Not ready for mainstream use". Windows is not good for me but it's apparently mainstream.

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