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RE: Linux ready to replace Windows? Not yet
Some jerk posted a reply to an article on ZDnet that pissed me off. Here's my response:
On behalf of the Linux community.. Blow me.
Linux would be ready for the sheep.. er masses, if it wasn't for the licensing crap that M$ providers shove down their throat. Give one of the end users a computer and a windows cd, and see how long it takes them to get frustrated. People aren't used to windows, they're used to having all their applications and add-ons pre-installed so they don't have to deal with it.
They don't want to sift through setup options for windows, or install 6 hours worth of updates, or find their hardware drivers, or install and setup the antivirus and firewall programs, then install office and update it, then install acrobat and sun java and macromedia flash.
I'll guaran-F'IN-ty it. If they did, us resellers wouldn't make the meat of our money doing all that crap so business clients don't have to. It's an industry set up and maintained by M$ and friends' endless bevy of updates and upgrades. WHEN the SOFTWARE breaks, they call us to fix it.
Put me out of a job. Quit using windows.
Furthermore, and speaking of updates, if they would leave the document types the hell alone, the entire computing world wouldn't have to keep switching gears and 'reinvent the wheel' every FREAKING time M$ decides to add floating smiley faces or something just as idiotic to the Word document format. The bastards promised to go open document format years ago then never did. Adobe never will. They're just as bad, but hey I still curse Macromedia regularly for selling out to them.
..and who's the genius who made it ILLEGAL to burn cd's if you're not using Windows?? Talk about abuse of a technological patent. Someone should be thrown in prison over that one. I have no qualms about installing that software on my Linux machine. Let them come to my shop and try to do something about it. They'll leave walking funny and in dire need of a proctologist.
Linux has NOT spent 15 years trying to COMPETE with windoze. They've spent 15 years beating a stick against a concrete fortress. If all of this crap wasn't going on behind the scenes, Microsoft would be a page in history. They're code base is so screwed up THEY can't untangle it. The sheep of the world are paying top dollar for bloatware CRAP programming, and their money is being spent to keep the rest of the programming world in a permanent spin cycle.
Go go Corporate America!
Somebody make up a suitably despicable sounding name for Microsoft enthusiasts. I'm so sick of them I could wretch. External Link
On behalf of the Linux community.. Blow me.
Linux would be ready for the sheep.. er masses, if it wasn't for the licensing crap that M$ providers shove down their throat. Give one of the end users a computer and a windows cd, and see how long it takes them to get frustrated. People aren't used to windows, they're used to having all their applications and add-ons pre-installed so they don't have to deal with it.
They don't want to sift through setup options for windows, or install 6 hours worth of updates, or find their hardware drivers, or install and setup the antivirus and firewall programs, then install office and update it, then install acrobat and sun java and macromedia flash.
I'll guaran-F'IN-ty it. If they did, us resellers wouldn't make the meat of our money doing all that crap so business clients don't have to. It's an industry set up and maintained by M$ and friends' endless bevy of updates and upgrades. WHEN the SOFTWARE breaks, they call us to fix it.
Put me out of a job. Quit using windows.
Furthermore, and speaking of updates, if they would leave the document types the hell alone, the entire computing world wouldn't have to keep switching gears and 'reinvent the wheel' every FREAKING time M$ decides to add floating smiley faces or something just as idiotic to the Word document format. The bastards promised to go open document format years ago then never did. Adobe never will. They're just as bad, but hey I still curse Macromedia regularly for selling out to them.
..and who's the genius who made it ILLEGAL to burn cd's if you're not using Windows?? Talk about abuse of a technological patent. Someone should be thrown in prison over that one. I have no qualms about installing that software on my Linux machine. Let them come to my shop and try to do something about it. They'll leave walking funny and in dire need of a proctologist.
Linux has NOT spent 15 years trying to COMPETE with windoze. They've spent 15 years beating a stick against a concrete fortress. If all of this crap wasn't going on behind the scenes, Microsoft would be a page in history. They're code base is so screwed up THEY can't untangle it. The sheep of the world are paying top dollar for bloatware CRAP programming, and their money is being spent to keep the rest of the programming world in a permanent spin cycle.
Go go Corporate America!
Somebody make up a suitably despicable sounding name for Microsoft enthusiasts. I'm so sick of them I could wretch. External Link
posted by - T at 03:56
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