Re: Windows XP Starter Edition: attention, Mr. Bill Gates
- From: "kurttrail" <dontemailme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 00:49:45 -0400
NoStop wrote:
> kurttrail wrote:
>
>> Big opportunity missed. But MS, over the last five years or so,
>> seems to be doing everything it can to move as many people as
>> possible off of Windows as soon as there is a viable alternative OS.
>>
>> The bigger they are, the harder they fall, and MS's fall is gonna be
>> nuclear, when a viable OS for the masses hits the market!
>>
> Yah, yah ... yawn ... broken record.
LOL! Thanks for the warning! If you know you are a broken record, why
to you keep going anyway?
> The OS is here and has been for
> some time.
Unfortunately, it is mostly a server OS and a OS for hobbyists. It
ain't ready for the average user, that has quite an investment in
software for the Windows platform. Or for those that don't know there
is a command line in Windows, let alone what to do with it. And Linux
is still too tied to it's command line.
> Tell me what you do with your computer that I cannot do
> with mine?
Watch HDTV with my ATI HDTV Wonder.
Run the most of the games and software that I've bought over the last
decade.
> Just what do you use your computer for that makes it so
> terribly wed to Windoze?
Dude, Linux builds that are put on CD will not even boot to the desktop
even with the hardware detection set to minimal on my PC.
> I'd like to see your list of just what apps
> YOU MUST run on that box of yours that only Windoze can run for you.
> Other than all the virus and malware protection, which isn't required
> in Linux.
Yet.
As a server OS where it is a major player Linux is more often hacked the
Windows Servers.
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39116229,00.htm
> Seems like you spend most of your time in this newsgroup. Knode is a
> far more capable newsreader than is OE.
LOL! I only use OE with addons that make it a very good text-based
newsreader. For binaries, I use Agent.
And replying to ignoramuses and zealots take very little time at all.
> Here's a list (although unfortunately a bit dated)
As is most of the Linux documentation I've seen.
> of what's generally
> available for Windoze and their Linux equivalents:
>
> http://linuxshop.ru/linuxbegin/win-lin-soft-en/table.shtml
>
> Like I said -dated. Lots more great multimedia stuff available now
> that blows away anything available for Windoze - and free, btw.
Since I can't even boot to a Linux live CD distro what good is freeware
equivilents of software that I'm already using with Windows on a OS that
don't work on my computer?
Now you are gonna blame me, or my hardware, but the fact is, the lastest
versions of Windows desktop OS and Server OS actually work with my
computer. Linux does NOT!
Linux is not ready yet as a Windows replacement for the masses, and
until it is, it will be a server OS and an OS of geeks and hobbyists.
--
Peace!
Kurt
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"Produkt-Aktivierung macht frei"
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