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Windows Nearly Ready For Desktop Use
wallykeyster writes "NewsForge (ed: a Slashdot sister site) has an interesting review of Windows XP Home, written from the perspective of a longtime Linux user (ed: Editor roblimo). The article clearly is intended to be somewhat humorous while making a point to the 'Linux isn't ready for the desktop' crowd. The reviewer does a fair job of pointing out the strengths of Windows along with the weaknesses that would be apparent to someone trying to make the switch from Linux." From the article: "Windows XP can't be considered consumer-ready until it has driver support for common LCD monitors during its installation and bootup procedure, especially if those monitors are easily and routinely recognized by popular Linux distributions. It's possible that the monitor manufacturers aren't willing to give Microsoft and other proprietary operating system companies the information they need to create appropriate drivers and that the manufacturers, not Microsoft, deserve the blame for this problem."
You forgot step 0: flip how many burgers to afford the price difference between a bargain-basement subsidized PC and a Mac mini + keyboard, monitor, and mouse? Yes, I admit that the Mac mini is usually of better quality than a bargain-basement PC, but it doesn't appear that anybody is subsidizing Macs with marked-up Internet access, and a lot of consumers tend to look only at the sticker price.
"just don't get it"
is anyone else horribly annoyed by this phrase?
Has any of the following replys not noticed that it is a piss take ? Have you no sense of irony ?