[Ubuntu-BD] আপনি কি মনে করেন? লিনাক্স কি আসলেই উন্ডোজের সমান সমান না?

[Nasimul Haque]

Masnun, I completely understand why you wrote this post. In my
opinion, it was also a necessary thing to do. I actually liked it,
honestly. But people have misunderstood the post from both sides,
windows and linux fans. You are also making this a bit confusing with
some of your latest comments here and in projanmo.

Anyway, I am going to provide my view on why this post was required. I
am a complete non-windows user, I haven't used windows since 2005. My
first bought desktop was an G5 iMac, where you cannot install windows.
Before that the machines I used were running RedHat or Debian or
Ubuntu dual booted with windows. I am writing this from a macbook
which dual boots Ubuntu with OS X. I put this history just to make it
clear in which fence I live.

There is always a tendency among fans to become a fanatic. This is
very wrong. Fanaticism is very bad for a thing to grow. Linux always
had this problem from the beginning. Only a very few handful of people
used it and they wanted to keep it to themselves. They believed that
it makes them an elite group in the society. Therefore newbies were
mocked to death.

Ubuntu was born to change this fact. This is why it has the slogan
"Linux for Human". And to become a human-friendly entity requires a
lot of sacrifices and patience. If you take a look at ubuntuforums.org
you'll see how the same questions were answered over and over again
without any mocking a newbie. This is what makes Ubuntu a unique Linux
distribution. This is why Linux is becoming popular.

At the moment, there is a possibility of getting this fanatic illness
inside the ubuntu community. I have heard a lot of stories about
people losing their data just because a linux fanatic told them to
wipe out windows. This is very very bad. No one should be approached
like that. People get completely wrong impressions about Linux
community when such things happen.

So, we need to be careful about such incidents. We should never allow
fanaticism in the community.

There is a wrong impression about Macs here too. Macs are not superior
anymore. It gives you an all-round performance just because it has
strict hardware-software integration. You can never use any kind of
hardware that are not specifically made for Mac. Therefore once you
are a Mac user, you have a very restricted options to use technology.
And that is controlled by a very evil company on earth called Apple.

The point is when you want to use something, you better comply with
it. Not every single hardware is windows compatible. Not even Macs. To
install windows on a Mac you need Apple's help. In fact, to install
Ubuntu on a Mac you don't need Apple's help. Ubuntu runs pretty well
on Macs.

Technically unices are much better than windows. This is a universal
truth. However, this is a geeky fact. It does not help end users. End
users do not want superior things. They want a thing to work. They
want cheaper hardware. They do not care about software. Actually, most
of the end users do not know that software requires a lot of money to
buy. They just expect it to be there. Hence the cheap manufacturers do
not worry about writing drivers for other systems than windows. These
cheap hardwares only get linux support only when an open source
enthusiast is notified about the issue.

Although the post was funny and required, it did hurt the open-source
movement a little. I hope people will not be returning back to
proprietary software for such writings.

-- 
M. Nasimul Haque
Senior Developer
Appliansys
Coventry, UK
http://www.nasim.me.uk