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I just had an epiphany when reading this thread over at Ars, Linux is the OS MMO! Think about it:

• Mindless grinding, check!
• Late nights, check!
• Girls = No, check!
• 5 minutes of glory, goto 1, check!

Seriously, you can spend hours or days running down something that should be simple. For example, getting an audio driver to work reliably so that you can surf to your favorite tunes, only to spend the whole evening at the command line trying to figure out why the bastard won't compile in. Bonus points if you have to search forums filled with snide unhelpful social outcasts to find out where to get the correct kernel source package because your distro came with the wrong one! (woops! lawl!)

Lets compare the above list to a popular MMO, World of Warcraft:

• Mindless grinding to get to level 60 (70 now, woops wait, make that 80), so that you can play the real game.
• Stay up past your bedtime so that your team can take down the raid that should have taken 2 hours… 8 hours ago…
• lol
• finally level up or get that purple, feels kinda nice right? So does a hit of heroine. But you can score that in 30 minutes. See you tomorrow night! We have to help XYZ get their purple bauble now!

In summation, the only real difference I can see between the WoWs and Linux, is that at least WoW is a game that is sort of fun. Perhaps some people that are your friends are there as well. Linux is well… let''s just say it belongs in the server room with enterprise support, and reinstall XP. That's it champ, now go meet some girls.

No, I meant real girls jackass. That Night Elf is probably a dude.