Re: why linux is a POS toy os...
Spring Sprung wrote:
> Spanish Ministry of Ed. LOL
>
> Titantic LOL louder
>
> Look, wasn't Titantic mostly produced like in 1996-97? That's like 13-14
> years ago, Alias.
And?
>
> The crowd, you know the crowd, that was supposed to go for Linux? They
> didn't - they dumped it for OSX.
"The crowd"?
>
> The politically correct, haughty, estranged, rainbow coalition types all
> went for OSX on those ugly white Apple laptops.
Never met one of those "types". It must be a recent American thing or
something you heard on Fixed News.
You see them in the
> cappuccino cafes near the universities.
We don't do cappuccino cafés. We have real cafés here and have for
hundreds of years. Starbucks isn't doing too well here, more like an
American novelty.
> Linux got dumped for something
> younger and sexier, Alias. You know, betrayed, as these types are wont
> to do.
Betrayed? You are, what, twelve?
>
> Sad, eh?
That you equate computers with stereotypical life styles? Yes, it is.
>
> BTW, Windows 7 has hit 90,000,000.
Grow up.
>
>
>
> "Alias" <aka@masked&anonymous.com.invalido> wrote in message
> news:hmjl6t$krc$1@news.eternal-september.org...
>> Spring Sprung wrote:
>>> Maybe 13 million downloads -
>>
>> No, users. All the users I have turned on to Ubuntu didn't download
>> squat. I burned them a copy.
>>
>>> but millions of these downloaders moved straight back to Windows.
>>
>> You only speak for yourself and quite badly.
>>
>>> You know that is true. Me and many who post here
>>
>> "Me post here"? LOL! Go back to English 101.
>>
>>> have downloaded several maybe many copies of Linux each - but I don't
>>> use it and a threw the copies out and stopped caring about linux
>>> years ago. A few people give linux a spin, but few of these stay.
>>
>> You only speak for yourself and quite badly.
>>
>>> UNIX and UNIX clones are too old, too convoluted, too incompatible
>>> (even with each other), too complicated, too unsupported, too
>>> difficult. Sure, the linux kernel code is 'open source', but how many
>>> people want to code and compile operating system kernels? A
>>> university professor might want to play with the kernel code as an
>>> exercise for the students studying, say, sephamores, but on the
>>> desktop, what's the point?
>>
>> I guess your point is that you're clueless and stupid.
>>
>>>
>>> And sure linux is a cheap solution for a web server (but even as a
>>> web server it is being eclipsed by other solutions these days) .. and
>>> .. as mentioned you might find linux in politically correct
>>> environments and ivory towers such as in a university setting, but
>>> elsewhere? To all intents and purposes: nada. Face it, on the desktop
>>> it flat-lines.
>>
>> Tell that to NASA, the Extremadura government, the Spanish Ministry of
>> Education, the good folks who made Shrek, the Titanic Movie, Avatar,
>> Tivo, Brazil's government, whole ministries in France, etc., etc., etc.
>>>
>>>
>>> _______________f__l__a__t__L__i__n__e__s____________________________________
>>> dead as in nada, none, not there, not at Staples nor Futureshop, not
>>> at CanadaComputers, not here, nor there, even dumped at Walmart,
>>> nowhere, not, zip, void, gone ..
>>
>> We got them at computer stores here. Course, those who think that the
>> above stores mean something ....
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> "Alias" <aka@masked&anonymous.com.invalido> wrote in message
>>> news:hmji5m$vgm$1@news.eternal-september.org...
>>>> Spring Sprung wrote:
>>>>> But linux is not platinum, Alias -- they give linux away for free
>>>>> -- and still no one wants it.
>>>>
>>>> A lie. How long have you had this problem? 13 million happy Ubuntu
>>>> users is *not* "no one".
>>>>
>>>> Sorry, you can't understand analogies. I guess you're too busy
>>>> lapping up MS FUD and believing it to work on your comprehension
>>>> skills.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> "Alias" <aka@masked&anonymous.com.invalido> wrote in message
>>>>> news:hmjhn6$sa5$2@news.eternal-september.org...
>>>>>> Spring Sprung wrote:
>>>>>>> And linux is at the bottom, whether in posting or % of desktops.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Very very few people use Linux, Alias, whether smart or dumb or
>>>>>>> in-between. Well over a billion desktops run OSX and Windows,
>>>>>>> about 3 million estranged desktops (often older and dilapidated
>>>>>>> equipment) have linux on them .. in 50 different flavours at that
>>>>>>> .. all not compatible with anything save HTML 4.0 -- and even
>>>>>>> then they're spotty.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The thing is flat-lining so bad, it's a bit of a waste of my time
>>>>>>> even giving it a thought. Why don't we discuss some "Other" OS
>>>>>>> that's doing better than linux, OS/2 Warp 4.0 maybe?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Platinum is far behind tin in quantity too.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> "Alias" <aka@masked&anonymous.com.invalido> wrote in message
>>>>>>> news:hmjgh4$l13$1@news.eternal-september.org...
>>>>>>>> Spring Sprung wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On the desktop, linux is not taking it, it's flatlining. And
>>>>>>>>> has been for twenty years. Even the "other" OSes do better.
>>>>>>>>> Such a shame to watch them advocate it, sad, pathetic really.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I wonder why this top posting windroid thinks that Linux is in
>>>>>>>> some kind of competition with other oses. Smart people use
>>>>>>>> Linux. Dummies use Windows. There are obviously a lot more
>>>>>>>> dummies than smart people. The pathetic thing is that it will
>>>>>>>> probably stay that way.
>>>>>>>>
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