Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2015 22:59:05 GMT -6
Well, that paper is done. 9 pages total, when the works pages are included. 5 pages of solid body copy, and I *HATE* APA format. If I NEVER have to write in APA again, I'll never feel like I missed anything. Ugh. O'Mighty Wall Of Text, it is! ..and I hate making walls of text.
I promise...I will format it for HUMAN reading before I post it all here sometime later this week (hopefully). When I get grade back, its mine to do what I want with. :)
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In terms of my own personal conclusions and final thoughts? Well, it is among what doesn't fit in APA format, but basically it runs close to what I've said above.
#1. Linux is exceptional in what it is built to do. Linux is half ass, at best, as a true and all around replacement for Windows in a long term sense until a lot more tech is taken out of it.
#2. I won't likely screw with Linux again, as a desktop or GUI operating system. It just wasn't made that way, and it sucks for how they've tried to force it that way. GUI has its place, and I'll sure keep the option of a graphic interface, where a linux system has it already, but I won't likely work too hard at installing one, let alone using another 'Turn Key-OS' based on Linux. After all...it's true power and what makes it attractive IS how infinitely configurable it is. Removing that...just seems to break stuff in the dumbing down process.
That is just my opinion of course, but there it is. For instance....if an update runs by command line? I know what it did, which files it did it in, and what it added. There is even a record of it, in detail (too much detail, in some cases). Something like Borderlands 2 wouldn't have happened, as I'd have known 'Okay..this this and that file were changed ...now what needs fixed in that reasonable range of possibilities?'. As it is...I have NO clue what Steam changed in the update that broke it, and Steam isn't entirely open source...so I can't even be sure I'd catch it in advanced searching techniques across files. (sigh)
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On the other hand? I may just go for Linux + Certification and see about getting some income producing work to do in admin related stuff. Linux DOES have a learning curve, and a pretty serious one for the advanced stuff I'm just starting to get myself into now. Learning curve = Good pay for those who become good at it. Hell..I was learning DOS instead of playing games when I was a wee 'tween' myself. I love this command line stuff, and it's natural..so why not?
(Believe it or not, you can actually change the loading name for all sorts of commands and literally give it the same structure and behavior as DOS. It's that totally open and configurable at heart)
I promise...I will format it for HUMAN reading before I post it all here sometime later this week (hopefully). When I get grade back, its mine to do what I want with. :)
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In terms of my own personal conclusions and final thoughts? Well, it is among what doesn't fit in APA format, but basically it runs close to what I've said above.
#1. Linux is exceptional in what it is built to do. Linux is half ass, at best, as a true and all around replacement for Windows in a long term sense until a lot more tech is taken out of it.
#2. I won't likely screw with Linux again, as a desktop or GUI operating system. It just wasn't made that way, and it sucks for how they've tried to force it that way. GUI has its place, and I'll sure keep the option of a graphic interface, where a linux system has it already, but I won't likely work too hard at installing one, let alone using another 'Turn Key-OS' based on Linux. After all...it's true power and what makes it attractive IS how infinitely configurable it is. Removing that...just seems to break stuff in the dumbing down process.
That is just my opinion of course, but there it is. For instance....if an update runs by command line? I know what it did, which files it did it in, and what it added. There is even a record of it, in detail (too much detail, in some cases). Something like Borderlands 2 wouldn't have happened, as I'd have known 'Okay..this this and that file were changed ...now what needs fixed in that reasonable range of possibilities?'. As it is...I have NO clue what Steam changed in the update that broke it, and Steam isn't entirely open source...so I can't even be sure I'd catch it in advanced searching techniques across files. (sigh)
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On the other hand? I may just go for Linux + Certification and see about getting some income producing work to do in admin related stuff. Linux DOES have a learning curve, and a pretty serious one for the advanced stuff I'm just starting to get myself into now. Learning curve = Good pay for those who become good at it. Hell..I was learning DOS instead of playing games when I was a wee 'tween' myself. I love this command line stuff, and it's natural..so why not?
(Believe it or not, you can actually change the loading name for all sorts of commands and literally give it the same structure and behavior as DOS. It's that totally open and configurable at heart)