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Boscoe
Flightless Bird
On 07/03/2010 7:46 PM, Alias wrote:
> Boscoe wrote:
>> On 07/03/2010 6:21 PM, Gordon wrote:
>>>
>>> "Boscoe" <laughingboy47@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>> news:XeRkn.262591$yV6.81645@newsfe27.ams2...
>>>>
>>>> Far from accurate? Root, partitions, directories, and command prompt,
>>>> typing in boring bits of programming I did 20 years ago.
>>>
>>> And as with all things NO-ONE needs to use command prompt at all with
>>> modern distros. And if you were using Linux TWENTY years ago then you
>>> must possess a time machine.
>>>
>>
>> That's sacrilege to the Linux geek, who prides himself on not using a
>> pointy, click type thing!! And I was referring to DOS(3.1) not Linux
>> 20 years ago.
>
> Guess what, Bucko, geeks aren't the only ones happily running Linux
> nowadays. Please try to keep up.
>
Alias, you ain't a Linux geek if you use a GUI and a mouse instead of a
CLI. I thought the whole purpose was to use some jargon that is
deliberately contrived simply to make it appear different to Windows,
which many hard-core Linux developers openly despise. You ain't one are
you, trolling on here?
> Boscoe wrote:
>> On 07/03/2010 6:21 PM, Gordon wrote:
>>>
>>> "Boscoe" <laughingboy47@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>> news:XeRkn.262591$yV6.81645@newsfe27.ams2...
>>>>
>>>> Far from accurate? Root, partitions, directories, and command prompt,
>>>> typing in boring bits of programming I did 20 years ago.
>>>
>>> And as with all things NO-ONE needs to use command prompt at all with
>>> modern distros. And if you were using Linux TWENTY years ago then you
>>> must possess a time machine.
>>>
>>
>> That's sacrilege to the Linux geek, who prides himself on not using a
>> pointy, click type thing!! And I was referring to DOS(3.1) not Linux
>> 20 years ago.
>
> Guess what, Bucko, geeks aren't the only ones happily running Linux
> nowadays. Please try to keep up.
>
Alias, you ain't a Linux geek if you use a GUI and a mouse instead of a
CLI. I thought the whole purpose was to use some jargon that is
deliberately contrived simply to make it appear different to Windows,
which many hard-core Linux developers openly despise. You ain't one are
you, trolling on here?