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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?
I always stop my "Linux conversion" when I get to the point where I have to choose Gnome or KDE (or both).
Life is the leading cause of death in America.
Sasser keeps me off windows... then I go back on and it restarts my computer within 10 minutes!
Simple! Greased walls.
and Gates and Ballmer and ...
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Tons o' preaching to the choir in 3... 2... 1...
(This coming from a Windows/Mac user.)
Ironically, the word ironically is often used incorrectly.
I think. Therefore, I am (off of Windows).
Used to be blue screens and reboots kept me off Windows and watching the POST count up memory - so the BIOS has kept me off windows. Windows (XP) has proved more stable - but it regularly dumps core as well, if not as often.
:-)
Thankfully modern POST routines skip many power-up tests - so most of the time it is GRUB keeping me off of Windows
Oh... and the other alternatives that GRUB permits...
Samba and Wine keep me off Windows, I just can't find reliable alternatives on the Windows platform
"Good things don't end with eum, they end with mania or teria." - H. Simpson
no offense sir, but i dont think linux runs FAST on your dual CELERON 500. i think the term that might most accuratly describe the speed is "LESS SLOW"
I still don't know how to set up DNS under Win2K.
Did you try asking the dancing paperclip? He claims he has all the answers...
I found the question "What's keeping you off of windows" to be interesting.
Literally, I stay off of windows because too much stress and they break.
Same is true for GLASS windows.
Windows is like a prostitute. It's expensive, but it does look pretty, give you a good time with its 'ease of use'. Unfortunately you can easily contact virus, worms and other parasites (such as adware, spyware) easily by using it long enough.
I'd rather have a stable relationship, that's why I pick Linux.
Please direct all bug reports to
Prior to Windows 2000 I used Linux extensively, mainly because it was very stable indeed, and rather exciting. Now it's just not worth it, Windows does everything Linux can do and more.
I must say that "Windows has finally caught up to Linux" is certainly an unusual argument.
KFG
"I know how to do it" does not equal "This is trivial."
Setting up DNS on UNIX is quite complex. Whole books have been written on the subject.
And books being written on a subject doesn't make it complex. Whole books have been written on MANY topics that are relatively simple.
Never confuse volume with power.
What always amused me endlessly was that for the first few years of Windows existence what was the NUMBER ONE APPLICATION?
Berkley Systems' screensaver.
You know you have a winning OS when the most popular application sold for it addresses what your computer should do when you're not using it.
And what was the second most popular Windows application?
An un-installer.
I rest my case.
hmmm. obfuscating, discutable, decommoditizing... lots of big words, this person smarter then I am.
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Infantile, cumbersome and boring.
Linux is safer around dumb friends because it's nearly impossible to install anything even if you want to, much less have the convenience of something installing itself.
It's a perfect time for being wasted.
A perfect time to watch the stars.
- Burden Brothers, "Beautiful Night"
Ahhh, so you are evaluating your software based on looks of the people in the company? Wow. Can it get any more closed minded than that?
Actually, I'd say it's ironic, not just close minded. I mean, have you seen some of the gurus of "open source" lately?
God invented whiskey so the Irish would not rule the world.
This would be more like blaming Ford if your friend borrowed your car and bumped the "Explode" button while going around a sharp turn.
But real-life analogies to computer problems generally suck, so who knows.
Mod down posts with a "Free Mac Mini/iPod" sig, they're spam!
Finally, I don't like the idea of rebooting a system every ten minutes.
Then stop rebooting it every ten minutes.
Coming soon - pyrogyra
You don't run X, do you?
He said unexplained.
;-)
Care to share the the "power button set to restart X" trick?
TIA
--Phillip
Can you say BIRTH TAX
Would you blame Ford if your friend borrowed your car and wrecked it?
No, I would blame Firestone.
...this person smarter then I am.
Cheer up. You're equally smart as neither one of you knows the difference between "then" and "than".
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As a matter of fact, I am a lawyer. But I play an actor on TV.
Well, you see, we only agree with the government when the government is right!
"[Regarding the 'cloud,'] ownership was what made America different than Russia." -- Woz
Unlike when your RPM database gets corrupted or when RedHat inadvertantly puts the wrong information on glibc and everyone upgrades and is left with a machine that you can only reinstall the OS on (the shortest path).
Look, if you cared that much about my stupid post, you would have pointed out that Linux isn't an operating system or platform. It's a kernel. Nothing more.Further you shouldn't assume that redhat is the only distribution, or that I even use red hat. I don't think I even mentioned red hat in the post, come to think of it. Odd...
Something goes wrong enough to where this is a feature?
Have you used Windows lately?As opposed to the 1000s of games on the Windows box that all their friends are playing. Could be that you have only the default 5 games installed on the Windows box and they are tired of them and that's why they don't want to use those?
Yes, to put it back into context from left field "Games that come with Linux" was the operative term. Darnit, I called it Linux again, you should have corrected me. What kind of old timey know nothing snob are you?Proof of that which exists today? or are you still living in 1995?
Yep, it's no secret. Don't believe me? Buy any third party firewall with application level blocking. Norton internet security catches most of them.Heh, yeah... those wonderful 'man' pages. When there is documentation, it is completely dry when having simply one example of a very common use would answer 90% of all questions about it. Linux documentation (and even Unix documentation for the most part) is seriously lacking. It's written by engineers for engineers. No examples, just lists of the 200+ command line options for every program with almost no direction of which ones are useful together.
Ouch. Sounds like fun. Actually, I've only really needed to resort to man pages a couple of times. There's this great thing here in the 21st century called the internet.Who cares, neither of them kill babies and eat them raw. I don't idolize either of them, they are just humans like me, not a god, and not worthy of religion.
Babies? Raw? You're right. It was a joke, specifically engineered for a single brief chuckle, for those inclined to think it was funny. If you need help this definition comes in handy.This signature has Super Cow Powers
Two more words: Dropline Gnome
;-)
'nuff said.
... that an operating system called "Windows" would lack something called "Transparency"?
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
The difference between Outlook and knode is that if I were given a choice between using knode and being stripped naked, strung to the back of a pickup truck with a rope wrapped around my genitals and driven through a field of broken glass, I'd choose to use knode.
STOP MISUSING APOSTROPHES, YOU MORONS!!!
When you factor in diapers, care, and feeding its just not worth it.
but it is too awesome
"Never ask a man what sort of computer he drives. If it's a Mac, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him?"
Tom Clancy
Gravity!
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
I mean, have you seen some of the gurus of "open source" lately?
Whatever can you mean?
From the links in my previous post, I learned two things:
a) Alan Cox, you are a scary, hairy man; and
b) I now know why Perl is such a mess: clearly larry couldn't see the code he was writing from behind that moustache.
No offence, you're all smarter than me and I love you, but by the law of the school yard that makes poking fun of you okay.
Then, than...
it's all sound the same for my french ears
Did it hurt when they removed your sense of humor? Or are you just American?
It gripped her hand gently. 'Regret is for humans,' it said.
"I-Need-Some-Capability-But-I-Would-Have-To-Pay-Ex tra-For-It"
Yeah, like ANYONE pays for windows software. haha.
If we don't make light of everything, we are just stumbling in the dark - Blank
Isn't Perl that thing that's created in a shell, is connected with strings, and then sold on the market? ;)
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I only know three languages: English, Hebrew and bad English. The third one is my primary language :)
I mod down so you can mod up. Your welcome.
Call it revenge for the silly notion of assigning genders to inanimate objects. : )
Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!