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Windows Tech Writer Looks at Linux

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the outside-looking-in dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Three days ago I accepted Linux into my life and while I'm not yet a convert, the experience has shaken my faith in Windows. It's hard to reconcile because for nearly 20 years I've mostly stayed on the one true Windows path."

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  1. 20 years of windows by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's hard to reconcile because for nearly 20 years I've mostly stayed on the one true Windows path.

    If you were using Windows in 1984 and kept using it... you have more problems than just trying to reconcile an OS.

    wow

    1. Re:20 years of windows by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      This must be the guy who makes up all the job ads for "required: 20 years windows 95 experience" and "required: 10 years programming in java 1.4"

    2. Re:20 years of windows by quigonn · · Score: 4, Funny

      Wanted: Programmer with at least 15 years of experience with Java and/or C#/.NET. Must not be older than 25 years.

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  2. It's okay Bill by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    We hold no grudge. Just donate half your money to the free software foundation. Thanks a million.

    1. Re:It's okay Bill by Rosonowski · · Score: 4, Funny

      Or a couple billion.

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  3. OK we must start investigating... by netsharc · · Score: 4, Funny

    Let's see who can find the stock photo and the PR agency responsible for this. ;-)

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  4. Favorite quote by Rebar · · Score: 5, Funny
    but the modem was a nightmare taking an hour or so to resolve

    Sheer hell, it sounds like!

    1. Re:Favorite quote by nacturation · · Score: 3, Funny

      Why, back in my day I had to dial out by stripping the wires and alternately shorting them out to simulate the pulse dialing. And don't get me started on file transfers... we had to upload, both ways! Man, you had it easy.

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  5. "Good" Column by fuzzeli · · Score: 5, Funny

    "That" was a "nice" "article" about "something".

  6. Hm... by Binary+Gibbon · · Score: 5, Funny

    You'd think a 'technical writer' or 'IT Editor' would be a little more knowledgeable about 'basic computing concepts' like 'disk partitioning' and maybe wouldn't use so many 'extraneous unnecessary quotation marks'.

  7. One true windows path? by JanusFury · · Score: 3, Funny

    One true windows path? Where does the path lead to? Podunk, Nebraska?

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    1. Re:One true windows path? by zonix · · Score: 4, Funny
      One true windows path? Where does the path lead to? Podunk, Nebraska?

      Redmond, WA, dude! ;-)

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    2. Re:One true windows path? by plugger · · Score: 3, Funny

      One true windows path? Where does the path lead to? Podunk, Nebraska?

      To subscription services and rented multimedia, I expect.

  8. Paging Dr. Evil... by phillymjs · · Score: 4, Funny

    From the article:

    I know it sounds mad, but it's a fundamental tenet of this new religion. Here, software is not made by armies of "Microserfs" employed by a giant corporation, but by armies of volunteer programmers who "donate" their code to the public domain. By making underlying source code available to all, many hands and minds work on the software to improve it - hence "open source".

    and later on:

    My own installation was a breeze - at the beginning. Mandrake "partitioned" the PC's disk so it could "dual boot" to either Windows or Linux.

    "People" who gratuitously overuse words in "quotes" too much these days give me Austin Powers "flashbacks" which make me "laugh."

    ~Philly

  9. Linux Prayer by robbyjo · · Score: 5, Funny

    The author should close with the Linux Prayer:

    Our PC GOD Torvalds, which art in Transmeta^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H OSDN
    Hallowed be thy skillz
    Thy kernel comes, in the US and all the earth
    Give us this day our daily updates.
    And forgive us our holes, as we apply thine patch.
    And lead us not into closed source, but deliver us from Microsoft.
    For thine is the kernel, the skillz, and the leetness for ever and ever. Amen.

    Only THEN, he can say: "Praise the PC god and Linux open-source apostles, I'm a believer."

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  10. Re:The Cult of OS by TheABomb · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why do OS converts, Mac evangelists, and Linux gurus always sound like religious fanatics? Computers are wonderful things, but they should not fill any sort of philosophical, spiritual, or political void in your life. Well, one of the reasons I am a GNU/Linux user is that the GPL is much more in keeping with traditional Judaeo-Christian morality.

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