Re: not genuine Windows

On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 02:57:01 +0000, Leythos wrote:

In article <ebtql65hnn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, nostop@xxxxxxxxxx says...
More FUD from Fanboy. Tell us what CPUs Windoze runs on and compare
that with Linux. "Best desktop OS" my ass. You sure do live a sheltered
life, don't you? Totally clueless about what's out there now.

You remind me of another it10t that was banned from these groups under a
specific NIC, in fact you could be his twin.

If you want to see for yourself, take Mandrake, Suse, Fedora, and
Windows XP, put 4 computers side by side, same hardware/firmware on
each, make sure that you have a good video card for games/cad, a big
drive, a nice GB eithernet adapter, a Video Capture device, a Color
Laser Printer, a nice sound card, and 2GB RAM. Now start your install,
side by side, and then start testing applications with the same type of
documents - you can even export your Word documents to RTF and your
Power Point slides to PDF.....

Funny thing is that you'll have the XP box and MS Office installed with
all patches before Fedora even finishes updating from yum..... The
others are a crapshoot as to how long they will take, but in testing,
over a couple different instances, it takes longer to load/setup/patch
the three Linux distros than the XP + Office 2003 + Upates.

Have you ever actually *installed* Fedora? I'd like to see you try to
install 100 commercial applications under Windows before I could install
2,000 under Fedora.

However it's not about speed of installation. In designing Windows,
Microsoft sacrificed long-term stability and security for an immediate
flattening of the learning curve. Windows *is* easier up front, but
you pay down the road in maintenance time and lessened security. Linux
takes more work to get set up but once you have it configured it'll sit
there for years with very little maintenance.


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