Jerry, Had you read my message, you would have noticed the fact that I use Linux both at home and at Work (even though, my company's standard is Win9X, and NT). So what do you think are my thoughts about WinXX? I am too a software developer for the last, lets see, 23 years. Avi Jerry L Kreps wrote:
Avi, you say Linux is not perfect, but are you implying WinXX is? I hope not. Such a statement would only reflect your lack of experience with WinXX or Linux. I'm a professional developer of WinXX apps and I know what the limits are of both Winxx and apps that run under it. In the more than two years I've been running SuSE I have not had the kernel crash once. During that same period I have lost count of the crashs my Win95 workstation at work has suffered. Anywhere from a couple a week to a couple a day. I've installed WinXX more time that I can remember. I don't have a choice. In fact, I lost 1 1/2 days of work last week because I was finally forced to reinstall Win95 and all my tools just to return to some usable level of stability. And I've had to do that more than once in the last three years. Everything is easy, once you know how but, it is a lot easier to install SuSE on a PC from scratch than it is to install WinXX. None of that constant rebooting is required. Our tech support staff are die-hard WinXX advocates, and very good, but they constantly curse WinXX and Gates. I'm the Linux advocate at work. All I do is smile. They know what it means. (BTW, we have begun installing Linux at work. Stability and cost have forced us to do so. It is my guess that within 3 to 5 years we will be totally linux.)
My wife knows NOTHING about computers or how to use them. She runs Netscape and the WPs without any trouble. When my wife can do that then the desktop is ready. She don't have to worry about crashing or rebooting. It just doesn't happen. If Netscape crashes, she clears it with ktop and deletes the lock file and fires it again. THe kernel doesn't crash. KDE doesn't crash. They were made for her. Finally, the price is right. And, it will be that right price that switches the market around to Linux. People are tired of paying ever-rising licensing fees to get buggier software and jacking Gates networth to higher billions.
Dyroff needs to go through a series of learning session to bring himself up todate on what SuSE and KDE are capable of, and what the current app software can do. He appears to be a couple of years out of sync, especially when his solution to a samba problem was to install NT, not set up samba correctly. Or, he can quit.
Just my $0.02 JLK
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