>because they are sick of rebooting 400 times a day, because they are sick of BSODs.
Please stop using these old cliched arguments as they are no longer valid. Windows 2000 and XP do not BSOD any more than any other OS.
>An entire OS on a single CDROM that does NOTHING out of the box except get you on the internet and get infected before you can patch it..
I have never had my Windows XP laptop ever infected
>I didn't want to spend hundreds and hundreds or even thousands of dollars on a word processor, a paint program, virus protection, firewall, etc...
The firewall and the paint program are free. Plus, you have all kinds of free apps for Windows as well. You can use OpenOffice on Windows,Blender for 3D,AVG for antivirus and so on.
I can't believe parent was modded insightful. None of the arguments are really valid.Linux does have some advantages in that it is open source,free and there is no vendor lock-in. Plus you can target many platforms.But it might have a steeper learning curve depending on what it's used for.
>"She earlier told the paper that the experiment would "deform her horoscope."
>> Oh, and she didn't see this coming?
Obviously she did and saw the chance to make money off a lawsuit.
I prefer Amazon as it usually has prices comparable to most other sites. But a stronger reason is the reviews. Amazon has a huge custmoer base and there are usuually a lot more reviews for a product than found on other sites.
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>because they are sick of rebooting 400 times a day, because they are sick of BSODs.
Please stop using these old cliched arguments as they are no longer valid. Windows 2000 and XP do not BSOD any more than any other OS.
>An entire OS on a single CDROM that does NOTHING out of the box except get you on the internet and get infected before you can patch it..
I have never had my Windows XP laptop ever infected
>I didn't want to spend hundreds and hundreds or even thousands of dollars on a word processor, a paint program, virus protection, firewall, etc...
The firewall and the paint program are free. Plus, you have all kinds of free apps for Windows as well. You can use OpenOffice on Windows,Blender for 3D,AVG for antivirus and so on.
I can't believe parent was modded insightful. None of the arguments are really valid.Linux does have some advantages in that it is open source,free and there is no vendor lock-in. Plus you can target many platforms.But it might have a steeper learning curve depending on what it's used for.
>"She earlier told the paper that the experiment would "deform her horoscope." >> Oh, and she didn't see this coming? Obviously she did and saw the chance to make money off a lawsuit.
I prefer Amazon as it usually has prices comparable to most other sites. But a stronger reason is the reviews. Amazon has a huge custmoer base and there are usuually a lot more reviews for a product than found on other sites.