My wife has been used to using Word/Publisher for a while now. I finally found drivers for linux for my printer (damn HP PPA printers, I knew I should never have bought one), which is the only reason we run Windows in our home. Now that I can print from Linux, I officially wiped Microsoft products from our home. And my wife HATED me for about a week. But, as I taught her the right way, about how the user interface of a linux-based desktop system FAR outpowers the limited Windows UI, and how it's fully modular and customizable per-user (I had her use FVWM95 for a while, while slowly 'tweaking' behind the scenes to wean her off that UI), she began to 'see the light'. Now she will not use Windows, and is even trying to get her shackled office-mates to switch, bragging about her home computing platform. And the sex is way better now, save for a few 'oh, LINUS' screams every once in a while:) j/k And we saved several thousand dollars in counseling!
I do not need to be inundated with the problems of the netherworld of MS Windows users. Since I run Solaris, the most reliable, scalable OS on the planet, I need not be bothered with such mindless drivel! Out with the post!
No one knows... Yeah Yeah open source is good, open source is great. But what good is open source when the things that the software is built upon (win32) are changing? I personally wouldn't even want to see (much less improve) a program built upon shaky ground.
Has anyone heard this rumor? I have, twice now. although I don't believe it, it would be interesting to see an army of dreamcast dorks unknowningly breaking some nuclear codes.
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Have you seen the size of the books of CDs that Sun and Microsoft put out when they ship their OSs and unbundled software products?
My wife has been used to using Word/Publisher for a while now. I finally found drivers for linux for my printer (damn HP PPA printers, I knew I should never have bought one), which is the only reason we run Windows in our home. Now that I can print from Linux, I officially wiped Microsoft products from our home. And my wife HATED me for about a week. But, as I taught her the right way, about how the user interface of a linux-based desktop system FAR outpowers the limited Windows UI, and how it's fully modular and customizable per-user (I had her use FVWM95 for a while, while slowly 'tweaking' behind the scenes to wean her off that UI), she began to 'see the light'. Now she will not use Windows, and is even trying to get her shackled office-mates to switch, bragging about her home computing platform. And the sex is way better now, save for a few 'oh, LINUS' screams every once in a while :) j/k And we saved several thousand dollars in counseling!
You can't do it. Sharks may have big mouths, but they can't swallow the entire net.
I do not need to be inundated with the problems of the netherworld of MS Windows users. Since I run Solaris, the most reliable, scalable OS on the planet, I need not be bothered with such mindless drivel! Out with the post!
No one knows... Yeah Yeah open source is good, open source is great. But what good is open source when the things that the software is built upon (win32) are changing? I personally wouldn't even want to see (much less improve) a program built upon shaky ground.
Has anyone heard this rumor? I have, twice now. although I don't believe it, it would be interesting to see an army of dreamcast dorks unknowningly breaking some nuclear codes.