These rants remind me of a kid I knew in college who swore on his mother that M$ "operating systems" were "superior" to _any_ variant of UNIX. His reasoning was simply that M$ "operating systems" are, well, simple. Any programmer knows that there are tradeoffs to be made during the course of OS design, one of the most common (when is comes to M$, anyway) being efficiency vs ease of use. However M$ has violated one fundamental principle of OS design: a user level program should not be able to fry the OS. I'm a programmer, and considering I'm a newbie on the market I write a lot of bad code. :) Fortunately the code is written on and for Linux; Lord wouldn't be able to count the number of blue screens I would have seen had the development been taking place on a windoze box. Windoze is a buggy environment that breeds buggy code, and the thing that surprises me the most is the sheer number of people that use it; this number is damn close to the number of people that then go on to _complain_ about the problems that go along with, well, using bugs. I have to give some credit to M$ for making a killing on a pile of shit. Win2000 follows along in the great buggy tradition, having 63,000+ bugs a weekend before its release. (there was a reference; if I can find it I'll pass it on) And once again, how is it possible?? Cuz people like it to be "easy". "Easy" sounds too much like "lazy"; they go hand in hand don't they? If the average Joe used even 2 or 3% more of his brain, perhaps he could tolerate learning how to use the keyboard in front of him. In any case, my poor college friend suffered one too many blue screens and found himself learning the ins and outs of Linux. Linux is vastly more stable than Windoze, but more difficult to use. Correct? Yes, OK, so each has its strong point, on either side of that fundamental principle. And it seems to me right now that people find it easier to reach over and press the reset button when they have to, and do an occassional reinstall, than to charge up a few neurons (understanding Linux isn't rocket science). I'm pretty sure this is the case and it's sad because more and more people _are_ aware that there are other, perhaps _much_ better things to use other than Windows. Are people unwilling to learn, or incapable? Or are they merely brainwashed to the point of being afraid of change? I swear, people put way too much faith into these damn machines. kw /* ** Keith Warno ** Make Us An Offer, Inc. ** Real-Time Online Haggling ** http://www.HaggleWare.com/ */ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/