[Bush2000]

Methinks you are naive and the Linux snake-handlers have sold you a bill of goods. Linux and Mac and Solaris are just as buggy as Windows. http://www.wininformant.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=23958.

[LibKill]

Linux and Mac and Solaris are just as buggy as Windows.

Sorry, I mistook one of your posts to mean that you were into Linux.

I am not eager to learn another operating system. I have been through too many already since I first took up the challenge and blessing of personal computers 20 years ago.

I know a couple of Linux geeks but it seems very complicated. I can't see where it will benefit me to learn this new system.

Solaris is something that I am blissfully unaware of.

I am familiar with Macs from work. They are OK for the office, but I would not have one in my home.:)

Still, I say that if another manufactorer gave me software (windows based?) that did what I wanted it to do and had MicroSoft(TM) file compatability, I would buy it with my hard earned dollars.

My major gripe with MicroSoft(TM)is the versions of Word after Office 97.

You put a picture and some text here. You do a save and everything is automatically reformatted without so much as a 'by-your-leave-sir'.

Dammit! I am supposed to be the boss, not the software.

[dheretic]

Why do you insist on trying to prove your points by going to windows-centric websites? That is as pointless as a Socialist pointing to the Communist Manifesto as a good list of reasons why Capitalism ain't all it's cracked up to be.

[rdb3]

Linux and Mac and Solaris are just as buggy as Windows.

Well!

If that's the case, Linux must be ahead of the curve (using your logic, of course) since it started in the early '90s. When the MS start? When did Apple begin? Solaris (Sun)?

Again, if "Linux and Mac and Solaris are just as buggy as Windows," Linux wins. The way you frame it, there shouldn't even be a comparison!