"johnny bobby bee" <useraddshine-no_spam_eh******.ca> wrote in message
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> jim wrote:
>> I want to like Linux. I really do. But, I find it a lot like driving a
>> car. If I had to work on my car as much as I have had to work on Linux
>> distros that I have tried and I got as much out of it as I have gotten
>> out of them I'd walk and get there faster.
>
> Funny you should mention a car analogy:
>
> If Windows were a car:
>
> 1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day.
> 2. Every time they painted new lines on the road, you would have to buy a
> new car.
> 3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would
> have to pull over to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut
> off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue.
> For some reason you would simply accept this.
> 4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your
> car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to
> reinstall the engine.
> 5. Only one person at a time could use the car unless you bought "CarNT,"
> but then you would have to buy more seats.
> 6. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable,
> five times as fast and twice as easy to drive -- but it would only run on
> five percent of the roads.
> 7. The oil, water temperature and alternator warning lights would all be
> replaced by a single "general protect ion fault" warning light.
> 8. The airbag system would ask, "Are you sure?" before deploying.
> 9. Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and
> refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle,
> turned the key and grabbed hold of the antenna.
> 10. GM would require all car buyers to also purchase a deluxe set of Rand
> McNally Road maps (now a GM subsidiary), even though they neither need nor
> want them. Attempting to delete this option would immediately cause the
> car's performance to diminish by 50 percent or more. Moreover, GM would
> become a target for investigation by the Justice Department.
> 11. Every time GM introducd a new car, car buyers would have to learn to
> drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the
> same manner as the old car.
> 12. You'd have to press the "start" button to turn the engine off.

I didn't come here to flame Linux, and I do not have the luxury of so much
extra time that I would dare waste it in such pursuits.

But, you should realize that the only reason that the LinuxMobile doesn't
seem to suffer from these same problems is that ****ed few people can figure
out how to get it out of the garage.

jim