Linux For Housewives. XP For Geeks.

Talinom writes "ZDNet has an article sure to raise the hackles of any self-respecting geek. They report that housewives buying small laptops like the Asus EE are causing Linux usage for that demographic to spike. A reporter for Tech-On states that 'Retailers and contract manufacturers in Taiwan say that novice PC users there, like students and housewives, tend to buy the Linux version of the Eee PC701, while geeks go for Windows XP.'"

BLASPHEMY!

[elrous0]

Housewives with Linux??!?! Geeks with Windows?!?! Dogs and cats living together?!?!? MASS HYSTERIA!!

I 4 1

[Mipoti Gusundar]

I 4 1 amd welcomming our new script bashing apron wearing apple pie bakeing overlady's!

Re:I 4 1

[Rinisari]

I would mod that comment up if the spelling wasn't so terrible.

Re:I 4 1

[the_B0fh]

I'd mod you up if you weren't so hung up on typos. :)

Re:or course

[MBGMorden]

Yep. Because obviously somebody can't like or buy ANYTHING big/fast/cool these days without it being to make up for "inadequacies".

Do you do the reverse? I know I don't look at the guy pulling out of the shoebox apartment (old Pentium 75 visible through the windows) in a rusted out Geo Metro and think "Man, I bet he's hung.".

ZDNet confirms it...

[sootman]

2008 will be the year of XP on the desktop!

Er, laptop. whatever.

Re:or course

[sm62704]

Cheer up, young fellow, and read A Nerd's Guide to Getting Laid [slashdot.org].

hmm

[Peter_The_Linux_Nerd]

Does this mean I am going to have to start using UNIX if I want to feel like an elitist-asshole?

Re:Not sure it applies here as much

[jeiler]

That, in itself, is a huge difference. ;)

Re:I 4 1

[Anonymous Coward]

Well I for one am going around telling housewives with EEE PCs that Gentoo is a really great piece of software to try out on their machines.

Putting housewives off using Linux, you say? That's right: get off my -- fuckin' -- lawn. I didn't spend days in the nineties working out all this Linux stuff, hours compiling the kernel, fiddling with make files, just so some young whipper-snapper could come along and make it all easy, so anyone can use it! You, goddamn youngsters, swanning around with your Debian derivatives, don't even know you're born. In my day people compiled their own damn packages!

Signed,
Anonymous Coward
(because no matter how low your UID, Anonymous Coward is still the oldest active member on this site).

Re:My girlfriend has got an eee

[Anonymous Coward]

"it runs linux eh? what's linux? It does what I need it to do and it's cuuuttteee"

Funny, I say the same thing about my real doll.

I'm suffering an identitiy crisis

[John Jamieson]

I bet this is tough news for a bunch of us. It's not that I have a problem sheding the geek moniker, I welcome it.
But discovering you are not who you thought you were is still hard.

It is rather like growing up in a "not respected" family, and then finding out you were born a royal, and switched at birth.

Re:Hmm..

[Corporate Troll]

Exploits of a Mom [xkcd.com]. XKCD has a comic for everything ;-)

No NSFW tag???

[pla]

Linux For Housewives.

Hey, some of us read Slashdot at work! Can we at least keep the porn off the front page, please?

MMmmmm... Housewives!!

[Anonymous Coward]

Linux... housewives? Only cheesy pr0n can result. "I'm here to repair your Linux install ma'am. OOohh, I see the problem right here. I just need to $unzip this and $touch that. Now let's $fsck!" ~Bow chica wow wow~

Re:Windows

[pla]

But, alas, that day has come and now I have no clue how to troubleshoot Windows anymore.

Silly, you don't troubleshoot Windows anymore.

First, you reboot.

If that fails to fix the problem, you roll back to the last restore point.

If that fails, you reinstall from the recovery partition.

And if even that fails, you call it a hardware failure and buy a new one.



Troubleshoot... Kids these days, sheesh.

Re:or course

[Chrisq]

Do you do the reverse? I know I don't look at the guy pulling out of the shoebox apartment (old Pentium 75 visible through the windows) in a rusted out Geo Metro and think "Man, I bet he's hung.".

Shame. he probably spent the rest of his wages on penis enlargement.

Re:Not sure it applies here as much

[introspekt.i]

Girlfriends?! I'm buying plane tickets right now.

Re:I 4 1

[sensei moreh]

I'd mod you up, but then I couldn't comment on your post :)

Re:Hmm..

[stranger_to_himself]

Exploits of a Mom [xkcd.com]. XKCD has a comic for everything ;-)

Yeah and it's always that one.

Get back in the kitchen!

[jeebusroxors]

Wimins? On computers? What will they try next....

Re:BLASPHEMY!

[Anonymous Coward]

Geeks love the chaos and security challenges that is posed by Windows.

Speak for yourself, asshole,

Re:It's a No Brainer! :-)

[neildiamond]

Housewives are used to getting the products that have the best cost-benefit ratio.

You aren't married are you?

Re:hmm

[foniksonik]

uh... you're supposed to get a Mac if you want to feel like an elitist-asshole... duh. Preferably a Macbook Air with solid state drive... $5000 or so... then install Linux on it.

Re:I 4 1

[Anonymous Coward]

Like Mrs. Roberts [xkcd.com]?

Re:I 4 1

[Stanistani]

I will mod you up as soon as I'm done baking some cookies.

Hey! Me too!

[denzacar]

We must be shopping at the same place!

Re:or course

[Anonymous Coward]

God damn it, McGrew. NSFW...

Filters catch the things that you regularly post in your journals. Not a problem, but do us the courtesy of perusing your posts and flagging as appropriate.

Your journals are often funny and I'd read them at home - IF I WASN'T SO PISSED THAT I'D CLICKED THROUGH AT WORK AND WILL HAVE TO EXPLAIN MYSELF TO THE IT NAZIS!!!

Damn it.

Re:Hmm..

[cmacb]

Maybe they confuse geeks that are buying XP with idiots?

A perfectly natural thing to do.

Re:MMmmmm... Housewives!!

[rmadmin]

MMM.. Milfs on linux..

I think we may have spawned a whole new genre of geeky pr0n. Personally I'll wait for "I_banged_my_friends_sister_while_she_recompiled_her_kernel.mpg". :)

Re:BLASPHEMY!

[Yvanhoe]

I concur : http://xckd.com/350/ [xckd.com]

Re:BLASPHEMY!

[alx5000]

My mom's been using it [wordpress.com] for ages, I don't really get all the hassle now...

Re:I 4 1

[autocracy]

You should have modded him up, because the comment you just made has negative value.

My comment's awesome because /. loves crotchety elitist bastards like myself. PLUS I'm going to start a whole new thread below by commenting on how relatively damn old my UID is, you newbie punk. I bet you can guess what happens next.

In Soviet Slashdot, I pick where the moderators click!

Re:BLASPHEMY!

[pembo13]

I have to say, a stable Linux distro can be pretty boring. I like Fedora though, they throw in little quirks every now and then to make it all interesting.

Re:BLASPHEMY!

[element-o.p.]

Geeks love the chaos and security challenges that is posed by Windows.

You mean.... I'm not really a geek?!?!?! [cries as self perception shatters]

Logical outcome.

[alexhs]

Hey, that only makes sense.

MS Windows just can't catch with housewives until it becomes user-friendly like Linux... :P

Re:MMmmmm... Housewives!!

[Anonymous Coward]

you forgot about finger and mount

Re:I 4 1

[hob42]

I don't think I've ever seen someone with a higher userid than mine making a point about how low their userid is. At least mine is 5 digits. ;)

Of course, I just made your prediction about starting a new thread true, thereby giving your comments credibility. Damn.

Re:Not sure it applies here as much

[jahudabudy]

Thank you! I get so tired of people bugging me about "Which Linux distro do you use?" when all I want to do is bite the head off this here chicken.

Re:I 4 1

[bigstrat2003]

I don't think I've ever seen someone with a higher userid than mine making a point about how low their userid is. At least mine is 5 digits. ;)

You must be new here.

Re:BLASPHEMY!

[dave420]

You can upgrade from Windows 3.11 any time you want, fyi.

Re:BLASPHEMY!

[rohan972]

Have you been a housewife all this time without realizing it?

Re:MMmmmm... Housewives!!

[everett]

Tad bit nuts, or the inventor of a filesystem with a russian bride. (Too soon?)

Re:BLASPHEMY!

[omnipresentbob]

So... Housewives like 'em bigger, while the geeks like 'em smaller?

Re:MMmmmm... Housewives!!

[Hordeking]

MMM.. Milfs on linux.. I think we may have spawned a whole new genre of geeky pr0n. Personally I'll wait for "I_banged_my_friends_sister_while_she_recompiled_her_kernel.mpg". :)

I recompiled your mom's kernel! Oh, and I have root access to your sister. BAM!

Re:BLASPHEMY!

[immcintosh]

Yeah, but then he'd really be in trouble.

Re:MMmmmm... Housewives!!

[tgd]

Back in my day that took 18 hours... and of course back then I was lucky to take 18 seconds ;)

Re:MMmmmm... Housewives!!

[guaigean]

Tad bit nuts, or the inventor of a filesystem with a russian bride. (Too soon?)

Yep. Hasn't been 22.3 years yet.

Re:MMmmmm... Housewives!!

[kdemetter]

Well , i'm killing your session , and i'm banning you from the house. Don't even try chrooting into the window.

Re:MMmmmm... Housewives!!

[Anonymous Coward]

The obvious problem is that they're commands, and you're trying to use them as variables. They work much better as the former.

Re:MMmmmm... Housewives!!

[Hordeking]

Well , i'm killing your session , and i'm banning you from the house. Don't even try chrooting into the window.

Well, since she gave me root access, I can VPN in from chroot jail. I guess she likes the bad boys.

You know, kinda like your mom.

Re:MMmmmm... Housewives!!

[sohp]

I haven't heard of milfs. How does it compare to jfs or reiserfs?

Re:BLASPHEMY!

[elrous0]

We revoked your license last year when you openly admitted that you didn't like Star Trek.

Re:MMmmmm... Housewives!!

[psergiu]

Do not put reiserfs and milfs on the same box. The former one will get lost.

Re:BLASPHEMY!

[shutdown -p now]

If you really want interesting, may I recommend Gentoo ~amd64, with "emerge sync && emerge -Du world" in cron, daily?

Re:MMmmmm... Housewives!!

[digitalsolo]

I belive you mean the latter (milfs) will get lost. The former (reiserfs) will simply lose all references to what happened to the latter (milfs).

Re:MMmmmm... Housewives!!

[gad_zuki!]

No, actually the latter will be lost for a few months until the former reveals its location but the retrieved data will be pretty corrupt.

Re:MMmmmm... Housewives!!

[Godji]

In Soviet Russia, Russian bride fscks YOU!!!

Re:BLASPHEMY!

[Phybertekie]

What does that make VAX/VMS for? Gollum?