[lug] my latest guilty pleasure -- Linuxhaters Blog

[Nate Duehr]

This guy's blog was brought to my attention this week, and it's 
hilarious.  Great stuff.

http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com

[Content warning: He's a foul-mouth, sarcastic, and grumpy as hell... 
all part of the show.  Maybe NSFW, depending on your particular W place.]

He really gets to the crux of not just Linux problems, but problems with 
computing in general.  His article "The Fallacy of Choice" is classic.

http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/2008/07/fallacy-of-choice.html

I've been sneaking in some "me" time every night this week to continue 
backward through his posts.  I laugh out loud at almost every one of them.

And the more I read it... the more I realize I wasn't alone in my 
thinking that Linux as a Desktop OS... really does suck... for those who 
don't want 1000 "choices" as to what they want to do, and who actually 
want things to work when they use them, etc.

I used to spend night after night after night configuring, tweaking, and 
playing with Linux desktops... and I got exactly what he talks about as 
a theme in his postings... a broken desktop that some dumb developer 
somewhere broke (yet again) at every release of [insert distro-du-jour 
here] I was using, where nothing ever got better, but lately -- the 
windows can jiggle!  Did you see the windows jiggle??

Nope.  Never loaded compwiz, and don't care.  Do we have a reasonable 
replacement for Excel or Visio yet?  No?  Okay, I'll be over in my 
virtual machine doing some real work... sorry.  Got things to do.

[Deep breath]... I think this guy is really me blogging in my sleep.

This short one about the current state of Ubuntu made me giggle:
http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/2008/06/ubuntu-rants-heard-round-community-ver.html

And he got right to the bottom-line (pun intended) in this one:
http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/2008/06/cha-ching.html

I hate to sound like a troll, but I think there's some folks here who 
really have been frustrated with Linux -- seriously frustrated -- and 
this guy does at least call out the BS the "community" expounds...

"It'll be better because it's community tested!"... uh-huh...
"You have all sorts of choices"... yeah, that's great but do any of them 
WORK?

... Etc.

Read it whatever way you like, as entertainment, or a real rant, or as a 
kindred thinker, or a complete loon... but he's right on a lot of things...

It was just too on the mark not to share.

His "How to make a GNOME App" is bloody brilliant, too...
http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/2008/06/how-to-write-gnome-application.html

Nate