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[BrianW]

It's all in good fun, Dave.

 

[Alex-C]

the answer is, of course, OS 2/warp...debate: over.

:wink:

 

[Rob Gillespie]

I'd be more interested in switching over to Linux if everything wasn't such an utter ball-ache.

Quick example:

I loathe the way X renders fonts. The folks on Slashdot will say otherwise. Fine. I think they look like crap and nobody is going to convince me otherwise. With Anti-Aliasing off they look like they're made of Lego. With AA on, they're better but blurry. Windows fonts look 500% better to my eyes, AA'd or not.

So, I dig a little. I find out about something called the bytecode interpreter which is disabled in FreeType due to some inane patent issue. So I try and follow some instructions on how to turn this back on. It talks about installing the source RPM for Freetype. OK, so how do I do this exactly? After finding an RPM to download I try and run it like the page says (command-line obviously) and wahey - it starts doing something! Ooops - spoke to soon. I now have a list of about a dozen dependencies that need to be resolved before this can be done. Why? Freetype was already installed and running, so why do I now need to upgrade half of the system?

As usual, the response is: RTFM. Thanks. How helpful.

And it's not like I'm a complete retard here. I worked on corporate Unix systems for a while so I'm quite comfy with the command-line.

So I hit the switch on the KVM back to the Windows box...

 

[ThomasC]

RTFM?

 

[Rob Gillespie]

Yup. It stands for Read The F**king Manual (or Man pages). Often seen on pro-open source sites such as Slashdot when people run into a problem or require some kind of technical help. Of course, the fact that you may not have a manual and that the man pages only supply very specific technical detailing of commands is beside the point...