Re: Windows XP Starter Edition: attention, Mr. Bill Gates

In news:uVsiyc3VFHA.628@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
kurttrail <dontemailme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> replied with a ;-)
> 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?
>

<act like I snipped the above>

This is surprising. I wonder what piece of hardware is causing the problem?
Knoppix is a great tool and works on almost every computer I have tried it
on.

<and the below LOL>

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> 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.



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