jim wrote:
> "johnny bobby bee" <useraddshine-no_spam_eh******.ca> wrote in message
> news:jIs0k.261$Gn.213@edtnps92...
>> 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
>
>
i dare you to install windows in a VM running on windows
with a BartPE disk !