On Wednesday 29 August 2001 08:11 pm, you wrote:
Harrell, Tim wrote:
When I tried to suggest that it was indicative of how inferior Windows is he became extremely annoyed
I get the same reaction form colleagues at work. I try to tell them how much more stuff you get with Linux and how it works better. Today I tried to do a simple spell check on a windows document in Word 97, and the stupid thing resized the document and erased it's borders. I watch colleagues at work have their Excell spread sheets lock up. Yet they defend this scoundrel's software as those they were contending for God and country.
I think it has been said here that much of problems are attributable to the wet ware at the keyboard, not the operating system, be it Linux or Windows. Incidentally, my Windows 98 SE is system is an upgrade that started out life as DOS/Windows 3.1, upgraded many times with newer system board, hard drives, adapter cards, CD-Rooms, DVD, etc. et. al, and operating systems - Windows95, 95a, 98, 98SE, all without a hit, never formatted C or reinstalled Windows! I don't think I could have done the same thing starting out with an early version of Linux such as Slackware or Calderea Open Base 1.x (I have a copy or each) and made the same claim...
That's probably true Clint but it's an indictment of how little Windows changes not a testimonial to its stability and upgradeablity. Anything will be upgradeable if it has only trifiling changes. Windows 3.1, 95 or whatever is just rehashed crap. It's just GUI's slopped over DOS. It comes with the same sloppy software. The same Word that changes fonts when you backspace. I am not here to flame Clint, he is probably a really good guy, but it can't be that I am the only person sick to death of Gates contraptions and the overpriced crap that gets pawned off as productivity suites or what not. So what if linux does not have flash or digital camera software or it can't scan. I'll take gcc, g77 and gdb over the dozens of useless trinkets like digital camera stuff and instant messangers and flash. All of it cheap crap. Try and install a FORTRAN compiler on Windowze. First try and find one under $300. Go now and see if you can get employment because you know how to use digital camera software. The HR people will laugh at you. BTW I used the digital camera stuff that came on my freinds Millenium box; crap as usually. Supposedly America has the greatest economy in the world. with guys like Bill Gates running our businesses, I don't know how the hell we did it. Maybe it's true that a sucker is born every minute. Bill succeeded because Apple was taken over by a Pepsi Cola salesman and run into the ground. -- Cheers, Jonathan