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Moshe Goldfarb
On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 10:30:12 -0500, DFS wrote:
> josh fickler wrote:
>
>> And *this* IMO is the biggest problem with most of these advocates.
>> They keep telling the "retards, scum and mindless sheep" (their
>> future userbase) how Windows will BSOD every half-hour and how they
>> need to reinstall Windows every month for it to run well.
>
> They always ignore things like these 62 pages of discussion of Linux
> freezing up
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=587905&highlight=freeze
>
>
>
>> There is virtually nobody who actually has these imaginary problems
>> so if the "benefit" of switching to linux is no more BSOD's and no
>> more having to reinstall Windows every month then most people don't
>> need that benefit. They aren't having this problem so what exactly is
>> the point of dropping everything and starting from scratch with linux?
>
> A costs savings of a few hundred dollars, of course... in exchange for:
>
> 1) *interminable* hassles trying to use and administer Linux
> 2) greatly reduced choice in the number and quality of apps
> 3) no native games worth playing for more than a few minutes
> 4) trying the Wine hack
> 5) reduced choices in hardware
>
> Linux: it really is a no-brainer
The average user is simply not interested in the Linux experience.
They download Ubuntu or whatever, try it and dump it.
It happens all the time.
--
Moshe Goldfarb
Collector of soaps from around the globe.
Please visit The Hall of Linux Idiots:
http://linuxidiots.blogspot.com/
> josh fickler wrote:
>
>> And *this* IMO is the biggest problem with most of these advocates.
>> They keep telling the "retards, scum and mindless sheep" (their
>> future userbase) how Windows will BSOD every half-hour and how they
>> need to reinstall Windows every month for it to run well.
>
> They always ignore things like these 62 pages of discussion of Linux
> freezing up
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=587905&highlight=freeze
>
>
>
>> There is virtually nobody who actually has these imaginary problems
>> so if the "benefit" of switching to linux is no more BSOD's and no
>> more having to reinstall Windows every month then most people don't
>> need that benefit. They aren't having this problem so what exactly is
>> the point of dropping everything and starting from scratch with linux?
>
> A costs savings of a few hundred dollars, of course... in exchange for:
>
> 1) *interminable* hassles trying to use and administer Linux
> 2) greatly reduced choice in the number and quality of apps
> 3) no native games worth playing for more than a few minutes
> 4) trying the Wine hack
> 5) reduced choices in hardware
>
> Linux: it really is a no-brainer
The average user is simply not interested in the Linux experience.
They download Ubuntu or whatever, try it and dump it.
It happens all the time.
--
Moshe Goldfarb
Collector of soaps from around the globe.
Please visit The Hall of Linux Idiots:
http://linuxidiots.blogspot.com/