I have been a unix admin and currently am a network engineer. I don't "do windows" professionally. Still, my dad often calls for help. Once I pointed out that as a professor he has a university IT department he can call for help with their computers. His response?
"Listen, I didn't pay for 4 years of college to get lip outta you. Now shut up and answer the fucking question."
>> On the other hand, I've never considered buying her a Mac for gaming because all of the good games are just late ports of PC games.
While this is partly true, the real question is: so?
Do games somehow suck as they age? It's the same mentality as the sheep that have to get a game ON THE DAY IT RELEASES, OMFG!! It will be the same game two weeks later. It will be the same game two years later. Sometimes a nice step back from the game release rat race is wonderful.
... Debian, Gentoo, SuSE, Fedora, and Slackware will get recommended.
If the discussion relates to desktop use, Ubuntu and Mandrake will be recommended as well. Someone might even recommend Xandros and Linspire.
Someone will recommend a BSD. Even if the question specifically asks for Linux.
Someone will recommend booting a Knoppix disc and storing your data on removeable drives.
If Gentoo gets recommended a lot, someone will recommend Arch.
If we're lucky and a troll is feeling exceptionally clever, someone will recommend YOPER.
Moral of the story: don't ask this question here. You won't get a useful answer. Fact is that no one here has the time to use all the various distros regularly enough with every release to know what issues pop up with each of them beyond just a week's use.
Everyone's missing the point here. If HP holds the patent, nobody else can come along and do the same thing without coughing up money to HP. Nobody's gonna do that, so no problem!
1. Your teacher isn't supposed to tell you to stay after class, and lay naked on the desk while she spanks you with a yardstick as you recite the alphabet with an apple in your mouth.
After playing many hours of online shooters, I walk around the world and "see" floating text chat commentary to go along with what I see out there in the real world.
Hot girl walks by: "OMFG cum let me sex0rr"
Bump into co-worker in the hallway: "WTF TK-er? Kickban!!1"
Sitting behind a car that's waiting for someone to pull out of a parking space: "F U camper!"
Slow down car to get the lane-changing/tailgating jackass stuck in the slow lane: "w00t"
As I read this it occurred to me, has MS EVER lost a market once they came to dominate it? Obviously not OS or Office markets. They never owned the server market.
You're thinking on too short of a timeframe. MS's market domination really has not been very long. Change is gradual, and 10, 15, 20 years isn't long enough to think in terms of "has this EVER happened?".
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Dude! 3 GHz RAM! Talk about blowing the memory latency gap out of the water! I'm at the wrong school.
The repetition confuzzled me.
That must be him! I've finally found my real dad!
While this is partly true, the real question is: so?
Do games somehow suck as they age? It's the same mentality as the sheep that have to get a game ON THE DAY IT RELEASES, OMFG!! It will be the same game two weeks later. It will be the same game two years later. Sometimes a nice step back from the game release rat race is wonderful.
If the discussion relates to desktop use, Ubuntu and Mandrake will be recommended as well. Someone might even recommend Xandros and Linspire.
Someone will recommend a BSD. Even if the question specifically asks for Linux.
Someone will recommend booting a Knoppix disc and storing your data on removeable drives.
If Gentoo gets recommended a lot, someone will recommend Arch.
If we're lucky and a troll is feeling exceptionally clever, someone will recommend YOPER.
Moral of the story: don't ask this question here. You won't get a useful answer. Fact is that no one here has the time to use all the various distros regularly enough with every release to know what issues pop up with each of them beyond just a week's use.
Hooray HP!
You had Ms. Adler too?
Maybe if he was operating at 100%, the woman would've been impressed instead of repulsed.
Look a bit friendlier than gVim...
Hot girl walks by: "OMFG cum let me sex0rr"
Bump into co-worker in the hallway: "WTF TK-er? Kickban!!1"
Sitting behind a car that's waiting for someone to pull out of a parking space: "F U camper!"
Slow down car to get the lane-changing/tailgating jackass stuck in the slow lane: "w00t"
Well in typical fashion, you wasted yours (and mine, thanks a lot) on Slashdot.
Hopefully they don't have go through the dark ages Apple did before making a comeback.
You're thinking on too short of a timeframe. MS's market domination really has not been very long. Change is gradual, and 10, 15, 20 years isn't long enough to think in terms of "has this EVER happened?".