Daily Archives: February 9, 2007

Linux has an image problem

Or rather the people who use it do. This picture was pasted in the #lugradio on freenode today. It’s a parody and extension of the “I’m a Mac, I’m a PC” Apple marketing campaign used heavily in the USA and now popularised in the UK with top comedy sell-outs Mitchell & Webb.

I’ll admit, it’s …

Posted in Fun, Linux, Ubuntu | 15 Comments

No I will not fix your Vista computer

I have previously blogged about my gentle refusal to help windows users with problems on their computer.

However recently I have been getting extremely frustrated with Windows to the point where there is just no fun in diagnosing and fixing problems. I get almost no satisfaction out of reoslving Windows issues. I can forsee …

Posted in Advocacy, Linux, Rant, Ubuntu | 11 Comments

Wireless on Windows can be just as painful as Linux

Last night I got a call from my father in law. He recently bought a new laptop and wanted to get it on his wireless network. Rather than talk him through it over the phone, I went round and helped him directly.

I wont go into the details, because it’s not remotely interesting, suffice …

Posted in Linux, Rant | 2 Comments