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Saucy wrote:
Downloads don't equate to installs. First off some of the more zealous will download a new ISO each time there's a point one upgrade - so there's multiple downloads perc omputer there. Then many download but don't install. And then the truth is most downloads will be installed, found frustrating and incompatible, then wiped off and replaced with Windows.

Um, Ubuntu usage is not calculated by .ISO downloads. Care to post another silly, unfounded and not verifiable idea so we can all laugh at it as well?

This is not the year Linux takes the desktop, Alias. Not this year, not the next, not the one after that. Never. Face it: the 1990s are over, Alias, Ubuntu is the OS equivalent of flogging a dead horse - Linux didn't make it. Move on.

Saucy

I started using Linux in December, 2006. What's the 90s got to do with it? Now, Ubuntu is more user friendly than Window is, ever was or will be.

Fact: Ubuntu usage is growing.
Fact: more and more governments and big businesses are using Linux on the desk and lap top.

Windows is history. Move on.

Alias



"Alias" <iamaliasTAKETHIS@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:h8fvh2$1f4$4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Saucy wrote:

Are you on drugs, Alias? Seriously, are you? Because one can search high and low in this city at least and find nary a Linux desktop. Very very few people use it.

And what city might that be? The fact that over 10 million people use Ubuntu somehow translates into me doing drugs? Please explain. You've visited every single home and business in your city to check to see which OS they're using?

You will find it doing web and file serving, but hmm, that's about it and its time is shortening there as there are better web and file server operating systems out there. In other words, show me the money Alias: there are hardly any Linux desktops in Canada. At LinuxFest Ontario you see a bunch of people - it looks busy - but upon closer inspection I've realize I've had bigger parties at my house than there were in that LinuxFest convention. It's sad Alias. There's not going to be that tidal wave of conversion. This is not the year Linux is "going to take the desktop". Most people have forgotten it even exists.

Saucy

How do you live with yourself? Everything you post are LIES or extreme ignorance. Which is it?

Alias



"Alias" <iamaliasTAKETHIS@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:h8embb$mi1$4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Saucy wrote:
Ubuntu sales 'n downloads don't even compare to Windows 7's pre-order. On the desktop, Linux doesn't exist - to all intents and purposes it simply is not there. In a defacto sense, no one uses it. No one. Sure there's the odd guy in Spain, or cop station in Belgium where Ubuntu or some other Linux distro is found on desktops, but in the scheme of things it registers zero on the Richter scale i.e. it counts for naught, nada, nothing. No one uses it. The granola crunching, the politically correct and rainbow coalition types, once so interested in it back in the 90s , who went on and on and on about open sores, soon found out that they had no idea how to use Linux, that it was difficult and unusable on the desktop as a general purpose operating and it made them look like useless t^its when they went to use a computer .. have long moved on to being ripped off by Apples Corp. Alias, long out of the loop, hating the U.S. and living on a beach of Spain, reminds me of .. of OS/2 Warp .. or of Be OS .. you know, still living in the 90s and dreaming of some 60s commie paradise. For all I know he's on drugs, if his posts are any indication.

Saucy

Everything above is a lie.

Alias



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"Saucy" <saucylemon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:#nL#6IuMKHA.1312@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Great your lonely install has been up so long. Have you play Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 on it? It's fun.


Let me elaborate: to be honest with you, I have installed several copies of Linux and attempt to get FreeBSD running as well - all out of curiosity - and each time disappointed with the unworkability. FreeBSD just did its version of the BSOD. "Out there" though, I've not seen nary on the desktop / laptop save the two I mentioned.

The guy who had it on the laptop came over to me and asked me if I could help him. When he plugged in his USB mouse, nothing happened. I just said sorry, 'could be anything. I felt like saying: Why don't you get an OS that works?

Saucy

One prime example why Linux is funny. It's just a plaything.



Again I ask you - please elaborate as to why Linux (now it's Linux not just Ubuntu) is "funny"?

I have answered that question three times, are you illiterate? Can you not read?

Do you use Google? Google runs on err let me see....LINUX!

BIG DEAL! That doesn't distract from the fact that UBUNTU sales do not compare to WINDOWS or VISTA sales, nor will it to WINDOWS 7 sales when it comes out in October. What does that tell you?

Now let me put you on the spot and ask a question. Do you think or Ubuntu will ever seriously compete with Windows 7
When it comes out? It's a yes or no answer. A no brainer if you ask me.



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