To: Devilinbaggypants
Thats been my issue. Is LInux for the masses or just the techies? It's the secret language of a secret society. If you are a 30-year-old virgin living in your mother's basement and tend to measure your self-worth by your degree of immersion in cultural shibboleths, Linux is exactly what you want.
Now, having fanned the flames of a religious war, and as a IT guy going all the way back to BSD 4.1 on a PDP-11/44, let me make this clear: XP, Vista, OS/2, Mac OS, Unix, Linux, HP-UX, AIX, Solaris, DOS, CPM, VMS, etc, etc, etc, they all suck! (There, I said it!)
Anyone who spends any significant amount of time defending his favorite operating system seriously needs to reexamine his priorities.
Does Information Technology seem like a strange profession for a Luddite?
22 posted on
07/23/2008 7:03:12 AM PDT by
Bobarian
(Green: It's the new Red.)
To: Bobarian
Thats been my issue. Is LInux for the masses or just the techies?
It's the secret language of a secret society. If you are a 30-year-old virgin living in your mother's basement and tend to measure your self-worth by your degree of immersion in cultural shibboleths, Linux is exactly what you want.
Now, having fanned the flames of a religious war, and as a IT guy going all the way back to BSD 4.1 on a PDP-11/44, let me make this clear: XP, Vista, OS/2, Mac OS, Unix, Linux, HP-UX, AIX, Solaris, DOS, CPM, VMS, etc, etc, etc, they all suck! (There, I said it!)
Anyone who spends any significant amount of time defending his favorite operating system seriously needs to reexamine his priorities.
Does Information Technology seem like a strange profession for a Luddite?
So you woke up this morning and decided to just insult people didja?
I'm over a half century old. I am NOT a virgin, I have eleven grandchildren and five kids. I've been married 31 years. And I take exception to your broadbrush strokes here and your "claim" that all OSes Suck.
Seems to me you're the one that should re-examine your priorities and get out of the IT biz. LOL
For the rest of you, if all you do with a computer is use a browser, read email and listen to music or whatever (not gaming and other such things) then your BEST bet is to download a disk image of Ubuntu, run it, install it and go from there. Ignore the individual who is putting everyone and everything down.
If you're a gamer, like I am, you might want to keep an XP machine around (Screw Vista, I'll never use it and will keep XP around until I can no longer support it myself)
26 posted on
07/23/2008 7:12:13 AM PDT by
Rick.Donaldson
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To: Bobarian
38 posted on
07/23/2008 8:10:04 AM PDT by
twntaipan
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