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What Keeps You Off of Windows?
J. J. Ramsey asks: "schnell has already asked the question What's Keeping You On Windows? It seems only fair to ask the opposite question. For those of you who have elected to not use Windows, what keeps you away from it? Concerns about stability? Security? Dislike of Microsoft's business practices? Or are you simply a fan of your chosen platform and just don't care about Windows one way or the other?" Might recent events sway your decision to keep Microsoft's premier software offering off of your computer?
What keeps me off Windows?
Steve fucking Balmer: a man whose wobbling, flabby, sweating body is a testament to corporate greed. A stomping, ignorant, braying ogre, his mind a gelatenous mass of scams and ploys to kill any project dead that could possibly take a few cents out of his yearly multi-million dollar paypacket, bulging with the gonads of the PC manufacturers that Balmer and co have castrated and fettered. No matter that other companies are striving to produce something they believe in; something to give people choice, something they love, enjoy, advance and improve. No, mr fucking Blobby Balmer and his toad army are there, all puffed throats and poisonous flesh, yellow eyes swivelling toward their neighbours; whipping out their tongues to lash the hearts right out of anything like competition.
Rob Enderle/Brown/other 15 minute blunder: The snivelling, penny-a-word grubs thrown tit-bits by MS, SCO and anyone else with more cash than concience. These drive-by gutter-dwellers grinding their axes embossed with the "Made in Seattle" logos down the handles, the blades dripping reason, logic and fact as they slash their route through the increasingly "thick" jungle of online journalism. These congealed sacks of walking puss write to generate violent reactions and advertising rewards - they deserve real violence and lawsuits. Each day for an Enderle is just another opportunity to burp up another stream of carefully targetted bile, hoping it'll be lapped up by all the wrong people.
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This is bogus. There is not a single feature supported in Windows that is easier to configure in Linux. Linux has a severe issue with documentation, usability and general "stupid-user friendliness" that will always keep it bound to the elitist geek population rather than the mainstream world. There are a gazillion distributions of the OS itself that configure things in wildly different ways with virtually NO usability standards other than what it inherited from the Unix world.
Linux has its place, and yes I do love it; its an excellent work horse, but I don't have the time to spend hours working on getting some obscure software/hardware to install and run properly. Go ahead and flame me, but this is just my personal experience from a Linux user since '96.
Aw hell... it's fun to flame MS. Enjoy while they are still a monopoly. :)
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And what has the history taught us about the (non-)equivalence of the morality and law?
Failure of the competition IS the goal of any good, thriving business. It's just silly to start a business if you're not intent on crushing your enemy (and yes, seeing them driven before you and hearing the lamentations of their women ;-).
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I find it extremely hard to believe that your entire system would begin to constantly crash for some unknown reason.
Mate, this is many people's reality. You don't need to believe, the evidence is there right infornt of us.
Good that you get +4 for being able to suspend your belief, however.
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Because what your describing isn't the case for modern Linux distros. You can also drop fonts into your font directory and have them appear in Linux as well.
Honestly I just have to consider this post a Troll or the possibility that your are lying and have no interest in running Unix as an OS. Because if you had done ANY research there would be no way you could claim that "fonts" are the reason why you are being held back. What a lame excuse. Seriously. Say Linux doesn't support your Games, say its still a bit weak on the multimedia department, but don't give us an excuse from 1998 as the reason why you are "prevented" form using Linux.
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