LoadingReadyRun: Every OS Sucks

[Jackhorse]

Those references are great! Comparing operation systems with dates. A bit like the Mac & PC commercials.

What if you did the same with gaming consoles?

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF..... No

The flamewar would bring the sky burning down upon our heads, trolls mounting the roflcopter gun turrets as humanity is enslaved. Weakened by our centuries of in fighting that could be traced back to a single video many years ago. The Order of The PS3 the Xbox Alliance and even the underground Cult of Wii would try and unite together as brothers (Girl gamers make yourself heard over my sexist words here) to face the new threat but we would be defeated eventually, no heroes amongst these gamers.

Humanity would mine away at the internet dragging up more and more food for the trolls never finishing work until the trolls were satiated and the porn veins run dry, and still the voice of Wes Borg would ring out hollow and tinny from iron speakers high above the ground reminding us of our fatal folly as the trolls left our broken society to nurse itself softly into oblivion. Is this the fate you want for Earth? Do you want a console version of this THAT badly?!?

I... Uh forgot where I was going with that

 

[Veritasiness]

(CrossOver is much faster than WINE at a lot of things, especially Steam)

My mistake on the quote. The thing about virtualization is that Window and Mac can also do it, so it's not really a Linux-specific power - and even if Linux can run it, if it can't do it as well as the Mac or PC can, probably better to use Mac or PC. Linux has plenty of advantages, but I don't know if I'd count cross-compatibility among them.

 

[WarpGhost]

Cool beans. Nice to see more of Wes too =)

 

[ironlordthemad]

I think I must be the only person who didn't see this during desert bus. Stupid work. Their OS sucks too!

Man the stinger is great, Kathleen can be so mean if she wants to be!

 

[Impluse_101]

I do like this version of the song... but when it was on DB first time... it was fantastic... this year it was for nostaliga and it was great... now...Its still good, but i didnt like it how you all added the middle bit, but I'll get over it I guess.....


But Borg had long hair! The cap was...awful.

 

[Jeziah]

On OSes; my brother told me once about some work he's doing as a sound engineer. He works with 3 computers in the system; one is a Mac, one is a PC and one is a PC running Linux; they are all new or new-ish machines. He asked me to guess which was the easiest to work with. As a PC lover, I of course said that the Mac was expensive bullshit and worthless, the Linux system was overcomplicated and the PC of course was flawless. I was surprisingly far off:
The PC's software was buggy and overcomplicated.
The (audiotronics) hardware that the Linux was compatible with was of very poor quality.
The Mac was a bit out of it's depth doing technical stuff; it was crashy and unreliable.

Speaking impartially, I believe this situation well describes the fallbacks of each system, and it agrees with the song too. Wes said it best- when you get right down to it, every OS sucks.

 

[TheAmazingHobo]

I approve of the choice of linux-girl.
Her cuteness shall prove once and for all the superiority of Linux!


On a more serious note, I firmly believe you can circumvent most os problems by using each product in a way that plays to their strength.
Apple OS for media consumption (through iPad instead of Mac, but still), Windows for gaming and office stuff and Linux for most of my cs projects.
Its not like anyone is short on disk space these days anyway and can´t use 2 or 3 os on the same system.

 

[the27thvoice]

Actually kind of disappointed. I really like LRR, I really like Wes Borg songs, but meshing together... let's just say I liked the old Dead Trolls video better, it seemed to fit the song more.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d85p7JZXNy8

But hey, if you wanna do remakes and music videos, please oh please remake Suspend Your Disbelief.

 

[Capt. Crankypants]

Good god. Best LRR ever.

 

[theriddlen]

Truth.

I am user of all three systems (Macbook Pro+Homemade PC), and they all got huge problems.

Snow Leopard - Damn thing crashes very often. Maybe it's not the bluescreen, but there's no real difference - just a spinning ball, and freezed computer to restart. Problems with handling NTFS files, crashes 30 percent of times when i copy something to external memory of any kind. And my printer doesn't work there.

Linux 10.4 - Although it haven't crashed (but it may be because i don't spend much time there), there are many problems with programs, installing things is hell, and there are no noteworthy substitutes for many essential osx/windows apps. Working there requires knowing command line.

Windows 7 - Unluckily for this comparison i had to think a lot to find something bad. Just as Linux, when used normally, it does not crash anymore (last bluescreen i remember was in Release Candidate version, during installing of beta drivers), but when you make too much mess it will slow down - registry still present.

Forgive me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't it make sense for Microsoft just to drop the Registry idea? I'm not sure if it's absolutely needed, but I don't think it is. Here's to hoping the next version only has a registry for older stuff, and new stuff doesn't need it!

As for linux, it doesn't crash but damn if it isn't useful for anything but internet service and general fucking around. It isn't even good for fucking around, there isn't enough fun stuff to fuck around with.

If it was that easy, MS would drop it years ago. Unluckily it's the core of Windows systems, and just deleting it (which would be hard by itself, because you would have to rewrite every little function to work in a different manner - tons of time) would stop all the programs and games from working - so "registry emulator" would be required, therefore at after releasing registry-free windows, old apps would run much slower that they used to be. Deleting registry will be slow and painful process, but it will have to happen someday. Not tomorrow. Not next year. Time, Dr. Freeman.

Linux... unluckily you are completely right, there isn't even a good music player like iTunes. There are no spreadsheets from Excel, there are no iMovie movies, and worst, there are no games. Thats why this system is used on almost all servers - core functions stable as hell, but nothing besides.

 

[Giuglea]

can you actually call vista an OS?

 

[kouriichi]

But.... D: i like my vista...
She treats me right and doesnt interrupt my internet porn night!

 

[captain underpants]

A seven-year-old Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie song? Impressive. Repackaged and made new.

I'm sure I first heard this over 10 years ago, but it's always nice to see it get a new audience, and the new clip made it even better.

 

[captain underpants]

can you actually call vista an OS?

Vista was well named IMO: Lovely to look at, but not much use for anything.

 

[Bullfrog1983]

I didn't even snicker once... is this supposed to be funny because of the corporately manufactured OS war by mac?

 

[Wolcik]

Loved the girlfriend comparison XD

 

[lokiduck]

Awesome Vid nice to see it jab at all the systems XD

Also this is why I'm a mac user. I can't play games for squat and the computer does get slow and sometimes you have to replace the harddrive, but It's reliable. Just don't over work it and back up frequently.

Plus it's all nice and shiny and Kathleen :3

 

[Antari]

Umm the windows graphical interface started at 3.0 not 3.1. Otherwise great song!

 

[The Seldom Seen Kid]

The linux part was pure gold.

Someone had to say it. Thank you.

 

[Alar]

This was kind of adorable. I really liked it.

Poor guy can't get no love from the ladies without pain of some sort.