Re: eMachines OEM XP woes - time to buy $tandard?

NoStop wrote:
> kurttrail wrote:
>
>>> Actually GCC is needed to install some of the free programs. They
>>> are distributed as source code :-)
>>
>> LOL! And the average computer moron would know that?
>>
> You are a pretty pompous ass, aren't you?

LOL! Yes, I am! So what?!

> Calling fellow computer
> users morons and spreading your FUD so that you can appear to be the
> non-moron is sad indeed.

FUD! LOL!

> Sorry to inform you, but with user-friendly
> distros like Mandrake/Mandriva, software is easier to install than
> under Windoze.

Really? How?

> Not only that, but should you wish to remove a
> particular piece of software, that is just a click away and ALL of
> the package is removed. Not like Windoze where the end-user has no
> idea what should or shouldn't be removed and all sorts of garbage
> remain on the system, clogging up the Registry and using up hd space.

I agree that many Windows programs have lousy uninstall routines. Is
that a Windows problem, or the writers of that software's problem?

>
> You aren't gawd's gift to computer users my friend

I'm not your friend either.

> and your so called
> average computer morons can just as easily learn to run Linux as
> Windoze, without all the insuing problems.

Really? If it is just as easy, then why aren't they? I've tried and
continue to try to run Linux on my system. Have yet to find one yet
that will run all of my hardware.

>
>
>> And I am talking about the average person. Testing is something they
>> have nightmares about.
>>
>
> So now you speak for the "average person".

Always have been, schmuck. The average computer luser is stupid and
lazy, and yet I try to help them.

> I'm afraid, you're one of
> them.

I'm above average. My test for separating out the average computer user
for intermediate or above average users is the ability to organize the
start menu. And mine is meticulous!

> Very average indeed, with still much to learn about utilizing
> the full capabilities of a computer which Windoze will never provide.

LOL! What can you do in Linux that I can't do in Windows, and I mean
something constructive.

> Windoze is an operating system designed to keep computer users
> "average" and never realize the full benefits of operating a computer
> where the end-user is in control as opposed to the programmers at
> MickeySoft. The only reason gurus like you find Linux so hard to deal
> with is because Windoze has "protected" you from really knowing how a
> computer operates. That's why I say in my sig that Windoze results in
> the dummying down of the computer world.

Linux is just an OS. It ain't perfection on wheels. You need to get a
little perspective.

>> And you aren't the average user, which is the context of this tread.
>>
> The context of this thread was to provide a solution to the problems
> the OP was having.

LOL! The OP can't configure hardware in Windows, no way is he gonna be
able to do it with Linux!

> Sadly, you're the one who has chosen to make it
> something else.

ROFL! You are delusional. All he needs to do is install his video
drivers. Not change OSs.

> Hopefully the OP will look into the advice I offered
> and try it out.

I hope he does too! And you should give him your email address so you
can answer all his problems setting up and running Linux! I'd love to
see you do that!

> My 25 plus years using computers has led me to make
> the suggestion that the OP could find a solution by looking elsewhere
> and was meant to be helpful.

No, it was meant as advocacy.

> Sorry that you have decided this is
> somehow not in the best interests of the OP.

It's not! If it was then you'd offer to help him switch! Come on! I
dare you!

> But then again, you
> consider him a "moron", I do not.

LOL! You see him as a potential convert.

> I believe that any computer user
> today, including those that have no other experience but Windoze, can
> migrate to a better operating system and in so doing overcome the
> inherent inadequacies one finds in the MickeySoft product and be much
> happier after having done so, for all the reasons I pointed out.

LOL! I am a computer user. I have yet to find it easy to setup and run
Linux on my computer, and I've tried many different distros.

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