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Death
Flightless Bird
Alias wrote:
> Death wrote:
>> Alias wrote:
>>
>>> Death wrote:
>>>> Alias wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Frank wrote:
>>>> SNIP
>>>>
>>>>>> When?..all of us who have been around longer than you using computers
>>>>>> have heard this linux bullshit promise (threat?) for 20+ years.
>>>>> I'd say by the end of the next year the trend will be obvious. I would
>>>>> also say that outside the USA the trend has already started.
>>>>>
>>>> How do you figure this?
>>>> Based on a whim?
>>>> Linux hasn't taken off in 18 years, but it will happen in a year that MS
>>>> released a very successful Windows 7?
>>>> Ubuntu broke your brain.
>>> Ubuntu is so user friendly now that a terminal is no longer necessary. A
>>> couple of years ago this wasn't true and Linux was not so user friendly.
>>> So start counting the years from last year if you want to be fair.
>>>
>>
>> That simply is not true.
>
> Yes it is.
>
Incomprehensible.
>> You will need to use a terminal.
>
> Not really.
>
Pharmaceutically induced response.
>> The non-CLI linux users are called "ubuntards".
>
> How charming and arrogant. Not to mention irrelevant.
>
You are irrelevent,unsuitable,and habitually have halitosis.
>>
>>>>>> Once people realize what Ubuntu is and that it's free and comes
>>>>>>> with thousands of free programs, it will be everywhere you look.
>>>>>> They do
>>>>> No, they don't. most people haven't heard of Ubuntu yet.
>>>>>
>>>> People have heard of it.
>>> False.
>>>
>>
>> Then how are millions using it?
>
> "Most people". There are billions on this planet, dumb fuck.
>
Billions happily using Windows.
Ouchy.
>> Installed by the ubuntu fairy?
>
> Flippancy is no argument.
>
It 'tis whenceforth the fools cometh.
>>
>>>> They just don't fucking care.
>>> False.
>>>
>>
>> Not so.
>> People really do prefer Windows.
>
> *Most* people don't know about Ubuntu yet.
>
How in the fucking looney toon world you inhabit could you surmise that?
>> It really pisses you advocate types off.
>
> The fact that you don't know what reality is doesn't piss me off at all.
>
You are a perfect specimen of ubuntu induced avoidance behaviour.
>>
>>
>>>> People I inform about Linux get all glassy-eyed and withdrawl from me.
>>> I can't help who you hang out with.
>>>
>>
>> No duh.
>>
>>>> The only desktop users I know that use linux are capable of installing
>>>> it themselves.
>>> All two of them?
>>>
>>
>> LOL.
>> That's my point, chucklehead.
>
> My point is that you obviously don't know many people.
>
That's a bad thing?
I wired my doorbell to deliver a small jolt.
You'd be suprised how many idiots press it more than once.
>>
>>>> You somehow dug up "customers" that are computer savvy enough to be into
>>>> Linux, but to stupid to burn a live CD.
>>> Again, Linux is now very user friendly and those who can use Windows can
>>> ue Linux.
>>>
>>
>> Those who can use Windows do so.
>> They aren't bending over backwards to get linux installed to save a
>> hundred bucks.
>
> A hundred bucks? LOL! I suppose you think that every program that runs
> on Windows is free?
>
The worthwhile open source software runs in windows.
Its the stable platform for devices we are after, not just free shitty
programs.
>> Using linux puts you on an island.
>
> False.
>
Ahoy there!
>> People want what their friends have...they wanna be able to ask "How do
>> I get that IM program to run".
>
> You're an idiot.
>
Touche!
Well done!
I am worsted!
>> With Windows, everyone they know can tell them.
>
> You're an idiot. I thought you had installed Ubuntu. I guess not or you
> didn't bother to open Firefox or click on the blaring question mark on
> the panel.
>
I use a better Linux distro.
Its yummy.
>> With Linux, they will need to place an ad in the newspaper hunting for
>> the 3 people in their town using linux.
>
> Flippancy is no argument.
>
*cough* *cough*
>>
>>>>>> ..it is...but it isn't.
>>>>> Yes, it will. Computer stores here are already putting Ubuntu machines
>>>>> on display.
>>>>>
>>>> In Spain...where unemployment for young people is at 25%.
>>>> I'm sure free food is the rage right now also.
>>> Don't even go there because you're way over your head.
>>>
>>
>> Hahaha.
>> The words imminent collapse come to mind.
>
> Like I said, it's waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay over your head.
>
That Spain is a third world country?
No...I get it.
>>
>>>> SNIP stuff I no reply to.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> "I no reply to"?
>>>
>>
>> You should have said "me no reply to".
>>
>
> More flippancy, yawn.
>
That the Readers Digest word of the day?
--
Vita brevis breviter in brevi finietur,
Mors venit velociter quae neminem veretur.
> Death wrote:
>> Alias wrote:
>>
>>> Death wrote:
>>>> Alias wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Frank wrote:
>>>> SNIP
>>>>
>>>>>> When?..all of us who have been around longer than you using computers
>>>>>> have heard this linux bullshit promise (threat?) for 20+ years.
>>>>> I'd say by the end of the next year the trend will be obvious. I would
>>>>> also say that outside the USA the trend has already started.
>>>>>
>>>> How do you figure this?
>>>> Based on a whim?
>>>> Linux hasn't taken off in 18 years, but it will happen in a year that MS
>>>> released a very successful Windows 7?
>>>> Ubuntu broke your brain.
>>> Ubuntu is so user friendly now that a terminal is no longer necessary. A
>>> couple of years ago this wasn't true and Linux was not so user friendly.
>>> So start counting the years from last year if you want to be fair.
>>>
>>
>> That simply is not true.
>
> Yes it is.
>
Incomprehensible.
>> You will need to use a terminal.
>
> Not really.
>
Pharmaceutically induced response.
>> The non-CLI linux users are called "ubuntards".
>
> How charming and arrogant. Not to mention irrelevant.
>
You are irrelevent,unsuitable,and habitually have halitosis.
>>
>>>>>> Once people realize what Ubuntu is and that it's free and comes
>>>>>>> with thousands of free programs, it will be everywhere you look.
>>>>>> They do
>>>>> No, they don't. most people haven't heard of Ubuntu yet.
>>>>>
>>>> People have heard of it.
>>> False.
>>>
>>
>> Then how are millions using it?
>
> "Most people". There are billions on this planet, dumb fuck.
>
Billions happily using Windows.
Ouchy.
>> Installed by the ubuntu fairy?
>
> Flippancy is no argument.
>
It 'tis whenceforth the fools cometh.
>>
>>>> They just don't fucking care.
>>> False.
>>>
>>
>> Not so.
>> People really do prefer Windows.
>
> *Most* people don't know about Ubuntu yet.
>
How in the fucking looney toon world you inhabit could you surmise that?
>> It really pisses you advocate types off.
>
> The fact that you don't know what reality is doesn't piss me off at all.
>
You are a perfect specimen of ubuntu induced avoidance behaviour.
>>
>>
>>>> People I inform about Linux get all glassy-eyed and withdrawl from me.
>>> I can't help who you hang out with.
>>>
>>
>> No duh.
>>
>>>> The only desktop users I know that use linux are capable of installing
>>>> it themselves.
>>> All two of them?
>>>
>>
>> LOL.
>> That's my point, chucklehead.
>
> My point is that you obviously don't know many people.
>
That's a bad thing?
I wired my doorbell to deliver a small jolt.
You'd be suprised how many idiots press it more than once.
>>
>>>> You somehow dug up "customers" that are computer savvy enough to be into
>>>> Linux, but to stupid to burn a live CD.
>>> Again, Linux is now very user friendly and those who can use Windows can
>>> ue Linux.
>>>
>>
>> Those who can use Windows do so.
>> They aren't bending over backwards to get linux installed to save a
>> hundred bucks.
>
> A hundred bucks? LOL! I suppose you think that every program that runs
> on Windows is free?
>
The worthwhile open source software runs in windows.
Its the stable platform for devices we are after, not just free shitty
programs.
>> Using linux puts you on an island.
>
> False.
>
Ahoy there!
>> People want what their friends have...they wanna be able to ask "How do
>> I get that IM program to run".
>
> You're an idiot.
>
Touche!
Well done!
I am worsted!
>> With Windows, everyone they know can tell them.
>
> You're an idiot. I thought you had installed Ubuntu. I guess not or you
> didn't bother to open Firefox or click on the blaring question mark on
> the panel.
>
I use a better Linux distro.
Its yummy.
>> With Linux, they will need to place an ad in the newspaper hunting for
>> the 3 people in their town using linux.
>
> Flippancy is no argument.
>
*cough* *cough*
>>
>>>>>> ..it is...but it isn't.
>>>>> Yes, it will. Computer stores here are already putting Ubuntu machines
>>>>> on display.
>>>>>
>>>> In Spain...where unemployment for young people is at 25%.
>>>> I'm sure free food is the rage right now also.
>>> Don't even go there because you're way over your head.
>>>
>>
>> Hahaha.
>> The words imminent collapse come to mind.
>
> Like I said, it's waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay over your head.
>
That Spain is a third world country?
No...I get it.
>>
>>>> SNIP stuff I no reply to.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> "I no reply to"?
>>>
>>
>> You should have said "me no reply to".
>>
>
> More flippancy, yawn.
>
That the Readers Digest word of the day?
--
Vita brevis breviter in brevi finietur,
Mors venit velociter quae neminem veretur.