Linux Sucks

A User Friendly

Linux Installation Party

No gimmicks.

It just sucks.

1st Lesson

It's really ugly!!

Corel

Linux

1999

Ubuntu

6.06

2006

Arch

Linux

2015

2nd Lesson

It's hard to install software

The Microsoft Windows Recipe

  1. Find the Website
  2. Find the Download Button
    • Don't click the ads.
    • Don't step on the spyware
    • Be quick, it can be in another page
  3. Download
  4. Wait for antivirus
  5. Now find the file and open
  6. Wait for antivirus
  7. CLick, click, click
  8. Watch out for hidden software

See? It wasn't that hard, was it?

Wrong.

It's really

f*cking

difficult!!

Presenting

Software

Centers

(Those things you

love on your mobile)

  • Quick search.
  • Downloads and installs.
  • Multiple donwloads
  • Fast process
  • Easy uninstall

There's one in

(almost)

every distro.

Terminal install

also available.

No Annoying Toolbars

Period.

3rd Lesson

I can't play games

Steam

60 games in February 2013.

822 games currently.

644 confirmed.

Guess what?

Some even run more smoothly.

Steam OS

  • Valve's huge contribution to the "Great Linux Desktop Conquest".

  • Available on multiple platforms.

  • Significant performance increase in graphics.

  • Features the "rock-solid architecture of Linux".

4th Lesson

It's too difficult

Stop

Whining

Nothing is ever easy...

Well, until you TRY IT!

It's NOT

That Hard

You use Android.

You use OS X.

Do you think they are hard to handle?

Android also has a Linux kernel

5th Lesson

Can I Go To Facebook Already?

Not right now, we're in the middle of a presentation

But we have Chrome, Chromium, Opera and Firefox on Linux....

..and we DON'T have Internet Explorer

6th Lesson

"Everybody" uses windows

Or do they?

Developers

Developers in windows

You will be a developer

You can use Windows but it could will

give you a far harder time.

It's up to you though!

7th Lesson

Proprietary software is trustworthy

lol

No system is immune to virus

However....

2.600.000.000 Code red Worm

9.100.000.000 Conficker Worm

15.000.000.000 I LOVE YOU worm

+ 38.000.000.000 MyDoom worm

$64.700.000.000

Why doesn't it happen on Linux?

1. Linux is awesome.

Why doesn't it happen on Linux?

2. Linux has a well built architecture.

Why doesn't it happen on Linux?

3. Linux has a low desktop market-share.

3.1 Why bother attacking Linux when you can target far more fragile architectures with higher desktop market-share?

Why doesn't it happen on Linux?

4. Linux has a permission system:

4.1. Only those with root access can change the file system.

4.2. Yeah...We don't cause billions of dollars of damage...Repeatedly...

Why doesn't it happen on Linux?

5. Linux distributions send new releases very quickly, patching existing problems.

Why doesn't it happen on Linux?

6. Linux has a wonderfull community, with many developers, that help it flourish.

8th Lesson

The terminal is scary

TERMINAL

=

SUPERPOWERS

Old Linux saying

Where there is a Shell,

there's a way.

9th Lesson

There are so many distributions

So Many

Football Teams

There's one for every taste.

And they all compete to improve!

Too old to upgrade

Too awesome to Downgrade

  • No need to stick to old sotfware, there are dozens of Distros for slower computers.

  • 96,4% of all Supercomputers use Linux.

10th Lesson

Open Source

Open source is awesome.

Would you rather...

Have a dozen of developers

correcting problems and adding features

or...

thousands of developers doing the same?

Linux Law

"Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" ~ Linux Torvalds

Android Kernel Defects

The Android Kernel was release as Open Source.

Not long after, the community discovered several defects and helped fix them.

You can trust open source software

  • You can always know what's happening with the code.

  • You can be sure it's not malicious.

  • You can change, tweak and improve it.

  • You have the power.

Now let's get you some linux, shall we?

Thank you.

You are awesome.