BillW50 wrote:
> "The man from Finland!" <ThemanfromFinland@discussions.microsoft.com>
> wrote in message
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>> Yah, Linux is priceless as it doesn't cost anything. Everything is
>> done with pure joy and fun of making a better operating system than
>> Windows. Everyone knows we have succeeded. Windows looks like really
>> ridiculous and expensive piece of software. Please don't buy any of
>> that!. Ubuntu means hunanity and it is really a differenet world from
>> Microsoft. There's NO humanity in Microsoft!
>>
>> "Ray" wrote:
>> Exactly as
>> alias said!
>> software.
>>> They're priceless.
>>>
>>> "progressive realization" <-> wrote in message
>>> news:ec3ObZh$GHA.2328@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
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>>>> http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/2...ttyvistxp2.jpg
>
> Yeah I have been hearing this since 1991. And in Torvalds book, he
> claims he uses Windows. So the author of Linux uses Linux. That
> doesn't say much for Linux, does it?
>
> And I won't care if 99% of the world uses Linux, it is worthless to me
> until third party developers start selling hardware with Linux in
> mind. As I am not fooled with Linux is free, if I have to write my
> own TV card and VoIP phone drivers for the stupid Linux. I played
> that game with OS/2 and I ain't writing any more drivers. As I have
> far better things to do with my time. <grin>
>
> With Windows, you buy the box and if it doesn't work, you take it back
> to the store and get another one that works. With Linux, it is up to
> you and you alone to make it work. Blah! I'm too old that that stuff.
Bravo! And it's not your age; that's just the way it is. I got fooled into
trying the Linux "thing" myself and when it turned out I couldn't use all my
hardware because of the lack of drivers, I had to abandon it. There is
nothing precisely WRONG with Linux; it's just that, as with most anything,
it's meant for a certain segment of the population. It has a niche, and
does well there. But for the pure "users" out there, which are by far the
majority, something like XP is much better, as you described.
I've found that most people who make statements such as the cretins above
have done, are:
1. Actually using windows but want to be noticed;
2. Are power users who can write software and want to brag;
3. Are nothing but parrots;
4. And finally are usually Neanderthals and troglodytes on top of it all.
Yer NEVER too old, long's you can THINK like a 17 year old; only difference
is, they haven't done the stuff yet that you've done where you've done it
and aren't amazed by it anymore < G >!! OH; maybe that's just ME!! I
aint's good's I once was but I'm's good once as I ever was!
Regards,
Pop`