Replies

Linux is great...as long as you don't have much else to do.
The install process for programs ('packages' as the linux/unix crowd likes to call them) are a joke.
Some of the stuff plops itself any old place & the consumer is the sucker who has to puzzle it. In my book, that is a piece of software that is INCOMPLETE!
Other, software or 'packages', has to be 'recompiled' - are they kidding? Who, except for some nerdy, fat, ugly slob, who would define a great time as a long weekend spent playing games online. Dinking around with an 'application' that needs considerably more done to get the darn thing to work is a little like getting an appliance for your home, or something for the car and having the sales person hand you some raw metal ore and saying, here you go, all you have to do is refine it, create an alloy, fashion it into working parts and so on.

As a person who used to work in the computer field, who knows many who still do, Linux or Unix, is an interesting thing to mess with but, if you have to get things done, you have to go with the standard.

Professionals, not geeks who have nights, weekends and holiday with nothing else to do, have to get things done. It is most efficient to use something that works most of the time, with the least amount of downtime. It is pathetic that that for most office and network stuff, that means MS products. This is a bit like using an automobile that functions only 95% of the time. The downtimes for linux/unix are much worse however...unless of course you have some pinheads to mess with the os and applications, most of which were written by amateurs. For graphics, the platform of choice is Apple.

For those who have no life, outside of playing around with some obscure, half-a__ed os and applications, by all means, let them choose linux or some other flavor of unix.

Here you go, since you don't seem to have one:

CLUE

Thanks for the Monday morning chuckle. Really needed one. :)

For those who have no life, outside of playing around with some obscure, half-a__ed os and applications, by all means, let them choose linux or some other flavor of unix.

Wow! I havn't seen such a misguided, illinformed rant since Howard Dean spouted off on foreign policy.