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Dave
Flightless Bird
"Moshe Goldfarb" <goldee.loxnbagels@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 06:15:57 +0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 00
7:59 -0500, Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>>
>>> So now what?
>>> Boots to a CLI.
>>> The person who owns this system is not happy. She clicked update and
>>> that was it.
>>> Gone good bye.
>>>
>>> Yea Linux is great.
>>> Sure it is.
>>> Keep telling yourselves that.
>>
>> And KSODs and BSODs never happen with Windows, either. Get a life,
>> flatline.
>
> Upgraded 12 systems to Windows 7 and not a single problem.
> Everything just works.
> I'm not sure what you and your friends are doing wrong, but it
> works fine for me.
>
> I have a life BTW.
> The reason I have a life is because I don't run Ubuntu which
> consumes time like a cheap whore consumes sperm.
>
> You Linux freaks spend all your time making Linux work.
> It's a losing battle BTW.
>
> Almost 20 years and Linux still is less than 1 percent of the
> desktop market.
> That's a failure in most people's eyes.
>
> It's pretty pathetic when something that is free is ignored.
>
>
> --
>
> 1/24/2010 1:23:43 AM
Starting appx 20 years ago I tried Linux in quite a few different flavors,
including Ubuntu twice. Once when it first came out and then again appx 9
months ago when a huge, new and improved version was released. I bought
books, I read, I experimented, I tried dual-boot systems, I bought more
books and read some more. My experience follows.
Open source so all software is FREE. Majority of it is by amateurs who have
a lot of talent but final result is buggy.
No coordination between flavors, disagreements on who's the best and focus
on causing Microsoft to fail, rather than to make a good product, so one
platform is the same as others. Don't believe me, go to a Linux meet-up and
at almost every one, the conversation will eventually be about which flavor
of Linux is best and whether Gnome is better than KDE.
Lack of support for much of hardware, even some of the more popular
products. The more features your add-on hardware has, the less likely Linux
will recognize it. CIP, a HP printer that I could not even get to run in
post-script mode and a U.S. Robotics modem that would not work in any
fashion. No forum, no techie and no work got them to coordinate with each
other.
When you need tech support, the only place to get help is in forums. If it's
not an easy question to answer, the usual, pat answer is, "Read..." (fill in
the blank). More times than not, you'll get flamed just for asking. (I
suspect that when there's no-one to flame in a Linux forum they look for a
MS forum to flame. I'm just sayin'...) If you persist with your quest for
help, you will immediately be made aware of yours and your ancestor's
character, mental and physical shortcomings. And somewhere in the flames,
someone will tell you to read some more. (Anyone want to buy some Linux
books?)
So, back to Windows, warts and all, and never looked back (except for 9
months ago when I tried the latest, greatest Ubuntu on a spare machine and
found not much had changed, just the visuals). At least when I have a
problem in Windows I can get an intelligent effort to help and MS is
constantly looking to fix problems in their products. Every version I've use
of MS has been better than the previous version and not just eye candy but
in the core of it. Yes, they have problems, but if ANY flavor of Linux was
as popular (as OP stated, they haven't even come close to in 20 years even
though it's FREE), all the village idiot-savants with talent would be
hacking at them instead of MS. Don't say it can't be done, it has and will
continue to be done to Linux, just not as much fun when you can only make a
very small segment of the market mad so it's not as prevalent.
Sorry for my rant, but I get tired of reading all the idiotic postings from
Linux users who can't make a US Robotics modem work and then want to flame
Windows. Yeah, I know I'm stupid, I have to have a platform that will
AUTOMATICALLY support the most well-known modem in the world. (And I'm tired
of reading )
news:benz0owx3yy5$.1hnrfmnugerxp.dlg@40tude.net...
> On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 06:15:57 +0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 00
7:59 -0500, Moshe Goldfarb wrote:>>
>>> So now what?
>>> Boots to a CLI.
>>> The person who owns this system is not happy. She clicked update and
>>> that was it.
>>> Gone good bye.
>>>
>>> Yea Linux is great.
>>> Sure it is.
>>> Keep telling yourselves that.
>>
>> And KSODs and BSODs never happen with Windows, either. Get a life,
>> flatline.
>
> Upgraded 12 systems to Windows 7 and not a single problem.
> Everything just works.
> I'm not sure what you and your friends are doing wrong, but it
> works fine for me.
>
> I have a life BTW.
> The reason I have a life is because I don't run Ubuntu which
> consumes time like a cheap whore consumes sperm.
>
> You Linux freaks spend all your time making Linux work.
> It's a losing battle BTW.
>
> Almost 20 years and Linux still is less than 1 percent of the
> desktop market.
> That's a failure in most people's eyes.
>
> It's pretty pathetic when something that is free is ignored.
>
>
> --
>
> 1/24/2010 1:23:43 AM
Starting appx 20 years ago I tried Linux in quite a few different flavors,
including Ubuntu twice. Once when it first came out and then again appx 9
months ago when a huge, new and improved version was released. I bought
books, I read, I experimented, I tried dual-boot systems, I bought more
books and read some more. My experience follows.
Open source so all software is FREE. Majority of it is by amateurs who have
a lot of talent but final result is buggy.
No coordination between flavors, disagreements on who's the best and focus
on causing Microsoft to fail, rather than to make a good product, so one
platform is the same as others. Don't believe me, go to a Linux meet-up and
at almost every one, the conversation will eventually be about which flavor
of Linux is best and whether Gnome is better than KDE.
Lack of support for much of hardware, even some of the more popular
products. The more features your add-on hardware has, the less likely Linux
will recognize it. CIP, a HP printer that I could not even get to run in
post-script mode and a U.S. Robotics modem that would not work in any
fashion. No forum, no techie and no work got them to coordinate with each
other.
When you need tech support, the only place to get help is in forums. If it's
not an easy question to answer, the usual, pat answer is, "Read..." (fill in
the blank). More times than not, you'll get flamed just for asking. (I
suspect that when there's no-one to flame in a Linux forum they look for a
MS forum to flame. I'm just sayin'...) If you persist with your quest for
help, you will immediately be made aware of yours and your ancestor's
character, mental and physical shortcomings. And somewhere in the flames,
someone will tell you to read some more. (Anyone want to buy some Linux
books?)
So, back to Windows, warts and all, and never looked back (except for 9
months ago when I tried the latest, greatest Ubuntu on a spare machine and
found not much had changed, just the visuals). At least when I have a
problem in Windows I can get an intelligent effort to help and MS is
constantly looking to fix problems in their products. Every version I've use
of MS has been better than the previous version and not just eye candy but
in the core of it. Yes, they have problems, but if ANY flavor of Linux was
as popular (as OP stated, they haven't even come close to in 20 years even
though it's FREE), all the village idiot-savants with talent would be
hacking at them instead of MS. Don't say it can't be done, it has and will
continue to be done to Linux, just not as much fun when you can only make a
very small segment of the market mad so it's not as prevalent.
Sorry for my rant, but I get tired of reading all the idiotic postings from
Linux users who can't make a US Robotics modem work and then want to flame
Windows. Yeah, I know I'm stupid, I have to have a platform that will
AUTOMATICALLY support the most well-known modem in the world. (And I'm tired
of reading
)