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Hello, I'm a Mac. And I'm a $248 Win8 PC.
theodp writes "A little birdie told me which Windows 8 machines would sell out fast. 'Cheep' ones! While no official sales figures have emerged, anecdotal evidence suggests that cheap Windows 8 laptops were a big hit with Black Friday shoppers, leaving some Walmart and Best Buy bargain hunters disappointed at missing out on the sub-$250 deals. So, was the Doctor-Desktop-and-Mister-Metro dual nature of Windows 8 and lack of a touchscreen no big deal to these bargain basement 'Laptop Hunters', or did they not realize what they were buying? Or, as a GeekWire commenter suggests, perhaps they were really just looking to score an ultra-cheap Linux laptop!"
There was so many people around but I managed to get one! Wohoo! It's great!
Waste your mod points guys, it won't change reality and reality is this...In Linux you just changed the registry for...dum dum dum...INI files shat all over the place! Yes that is SO much better, lets just shit INI files all over the place, THAT'S the ticket!
Riddle me this..is there an EASY way to restore one of those INI files if it gets fucked? like maybe a simple keypress that would...oh i don't know...restore the last known good config perhaps? There isn't? How about a way to just send someone an INI file that will fix a particular problem they are having just by going "clicky clicky" and not having to put in an assload of CLI, like say how I can reset the windows sound server with a 14Kb reg file? There isn't?
Sorry but going back to the days of Win 3.x is NOT progress, its regress. Of course as long as Torvalds is running the show frankly nothing will change hell the man even says "let the devs do it" when it comes to drivers which THE MATH DON'T WORK because you have x number of devs and X+YYYYYYY number of drivers, but suuure, you call that progress all you want. that's why all the B&Ms carry...oh wait a tick, nobody sells Linux systems but online..I wonder why that is? perhaps because they don't have to support the creaky mess once it goes out the door?
But at the end of the day nobody cares about "freedom! (TM)" when it comes to OSes, they really really don't. if they did Apple wouldn't have lines around the block for their latest iDevice and MSFT wouldn't be able to sell millions of a turkey like Win 8. at the end of the day you either make a good product or STFU, Linux has tons of show stoppers but rather than ADMIT those problems and fix them instead you expect the world to do things YOUR way, to embrace CLI (Protip: It ain't 1979 anymore, let go of the fucking command line you damned nerd, its a desktop NOT a server) and deal with everything being like the shifting sand. Instead now that the antitrust is over MSFT can just lock that shit down and since you never made a compelling product nobody will care that you are locked out.
But what to me is fucking sad is you have had OVER HALF A DECADE to pull your collective heads out your asses and compete, Ballmer is a pathetic CEO and if you would have made even a halfway decent product the OEMs would have been happy to get away from iSteve 2.0, instead it was the same nerdish circle jerking and elitist bullshit and surprise! The OEMs will put up with iBallmer rather than deal with you. If the fact that Ballmer keeps raising the prices and fucking over the OEMs trying to ape Apple and they'd STILL rather deal with that instead of you don't smack you with a cluebat nothing will. this is why I've blocked Linux articles, go tired of the bullshit and the batshit crazy...you can keep your "freedom", I'd rather have a product that works, thanks anyway.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.