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Linux For Housewives. XP For Geeks.
Talinom writes "ZDNet has an article sure to raise the hackles of any self-respecting geek. They report that housewives buying small laptops like the Asus EE are causing Linux usage for that demographic to spike. A reporter for Tech-On states that 'Retailers and contract manufacturers in Taiwan say that novice PC users there, like students and housewives, tend to buy the Linux version of the Eee PC701, while geeks go for Windows XP.'"
Housewives with Linux??!?! Geeks with Windows?!?! Dogs and cats living together?!?!? MASS HYSTERIA!!
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I 4 1 amd welcomming our new script bashing apron wearing apple pie bakeing overlady's!
Will code for new sig.
Yep. Because obviously somebody can't like or buy ANYTHING big/fast/cool these days without it being to make up for "inadequacies".
Do you do the reverse? I know I don't look at the guy pulling out of the shoebox apartment (old Pentium 75 visible through the windows) in a rusted out Geo Metro and think "Man, I bet he's hung.".
"People who think they know everything are very annoying to those of us who do."-Mark Twain
2008 will be the year of XP on the desktop!
Er, laptop. whatever.
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Cheer up, young fellow, and read A Nerd's Guide to Getting Laid.
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Does this mean I am going to have to start using UNIX if I want to feel like an elitist-asshole?
That, in itself, is a huge difference. ;)
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Sacred cows make the best hamburger.
"it runs linux eh? what's linux? It does what I need it to do and it's cuuuttteee"
Funny, I say the same thing about my real doll.
I bet this is tough news for a bunch of us. It's not that I have a problem sheding the geek moniker, I welcome it.
But discovering you are not who you thought you were is still hard.
It is rather like growing up in a "not respected" family, and then finding out you were born a royal, and switched at birth.
Exploits of a Mom. XKCD has a comic for everything ;-)
Linux For Housewives.
Hey, some of us read Slashdot at work! Can we at least keep the porn off the front page, please?
Linux... housewives? Only cheesy pr0n can result. "I'm here to repair your Linux install ma'am. OOohh, I see the problem right here. I just need to $unzip this and $touch that. Now let's $fsck!" ~Bow chica wow wow~
But, alas, that day has come and now I have no clue how to troubleshoot Windows anymore.
Silly, you don't troubleshoot Windows anymore.
First, you reboot.
If that fails to fix the problem, you roll back to the last restore point.
If that fails, you reinstall from the recovery partition.
And if even that fails, you call it a hardware failure and buy a new one.
Troubleshoot... Kids these days, sheesh.
Do you do the reverse? I know I don't look at the guy pulling out of the shoebox apartment (old Pentium 75 visible through the windows) in a rusted out Geo Metro and think "Man, I bet he's hung.".
Shame. he probably spent the rest of his wages on penis enlargement.
Girlfriends?! I'm buying plane tickets right now.
Exploits of a Mom. XKCD has a comic for everything ;-)
Yeah and it's always that one.
Wimins? On computers? What will they try next....
Housewives are used to getting the products that have the best cost-benefit ratio.
You aren't married are you?
We must be shopping at the same place!
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
God damn it, McGrew. NSFW...
Filters catch the things that you regularly post in your journals. Not a problem, but do us the courtesy of perusing your posts and flagging as appropriate.
Your journals are often funny and I'd read them at home - IF I WASN'T SO PISSED THAT I'D CLICKED THROUGH AT WORK AND WILL HAVE TO EXPLAIN MYSELF TO THE IT NAZIS!!!
Damn it.
A perfectly natural thing to do.
Hey, that only makes sense.
MS Windows just can't catch with housewives until it becomes user-friendly like Linux... :P
I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of killer sig, which this margin is too narrow to contain.
Thank you! I get so tired of people bugging me about "Which Linux distro do you use?" when all I want to do is bite the head off this here chicken.
...sometimes, in order to hurt someone very badly, you have to tell that person terrible lies. - PA