Over the last 15 yeas or so, Linux was always going to take over the
desktop. From Windows 3.11, win95, win98, winme, etc, etc...Eventually I go
to dislike 3.11 and start to use OS/2. I thought that would have taken off,
except I couldn't play freaking games on OS/2. I would either have to use
win-os/2 or duel boot back into DOS. When Windows95 came out, it killed OS/2
and I just learned to live with it. The only real threat Microsoft has today
is MAC, and if you really consider that a real threat.
Every so often I download a distro, UBOOBOO (Sorry Alias, couldn't resist) ,
RedHat Mandrake, Slackware, and so on; and so on; and try to make it work,
but in reality it doesn't work for the average user. I load it and remove it
after a few days... I can't play *real* games, and I really can't use it in
the business world for what I do. I can run open office, ok thanks! You
really need to be a techy and you really need to put a lot of time and
effort in making it work! (and I mean; A LOT OF TIME). Even when you get it
to work, you will always find some type of incomparability or a program that
you have to compile to make it just right.
Microsoft, on the other hand just run setup or install, and it pretty much
runs out of the box. Less than 5% of the time I'm look for some other
alternative to do an install. They make it very easy for the average user to
run, maintain and use their OS.
Microsoft has their issues and there will always be anti Microsoft people
out there. Who knows if MS will ever work them out. I liked windows XP, not
a big fan of Vista, but made it work, loving Windows7.

BTW - Thanks for the laughs, I have this group up on my third monitor at
work, and while I do my daily functions, I glance over, do a quick read and
have a good laugh...

WaterBoy

"WaterBoy" <Waterboy@somewhere.com> wrote in message
news:L4adnccz6ZTIaXfXnZ2dnUVZ_j2dnZ2d@giganews.com...[color=blue]
> and I really can't use it in the business world for what I do. I can run
> open office, ok thanks! You really need to be a techy and you really need
> to put a lot of time and effort in making it work![/color]

Absolute PIFFLE! A good try at trolling.

"...but in reality it [Linux] doesn't work for the average user"

Linux was never meant for the avarage user. The biggest flaw is the
group of proponents that would have peole believe this and want
all of us to dump Windows and use Linux 100%, just like back in
1987 Bill Gates wanted us to dump DOS and always use Windows.

Using Linux as "every man's" desktop is not going to happen unless
lots of issues are resolved, some of which you list in your post. Mac
OS X is successful because it found its niche; same with Linux. Oddly,
Windows does not have a niche per say, rather it simply blankets
everything from gaming to CAD to productivity.
Thanks for sharing, Saga

"WaterBoy" <Waterboy@somewhere.com> wrote in message
news:L4adnccz6ZTIaXfXnZ2dnUVZ_j2dnZ2d@giganews.com...[color=blue]
> Over the last 15 yeas or so, Linux was always going to take over the
> desktop. From Windows 3.11, win95, win98, winme, etc, etc...Eventually I
> go to dislike 3.11 and start to use OS/2. I thought that would have taken
> off, except I couldn't play freaking games on OS/2. I would either have to
> use win-os/2 or duel boot back into DOS. When Windows95 came out, it
> killed OS/2 and I just learned to live with it. The only real threat
> Microsoft has today is MAC, and if you really consider that a real threat.
> Every so often I download a distro, UBOOBOO (Sorry Alias, couldn't resist)
> , RedHat Mandrake, Slackware, and so on; and so on; and try to make it
> work, but in reality it doesn't work for the average user. I load it and
> remove it after a few days... I can't play *real* games, and I really
> can't use it in the business world for what I do. I can run open office,
> ok thanks! You really need to be a techy and you really need to put a lot
> of time and effort in making it work! (and I mean; A LOT OF TIME). Even
> when you get it to work, you will always find some type of incomparability
> or a program that you have to compile to make it just right.
> Microsoft, on the other hand just run setup or install, and it pretty much
> runs out of the box. Less than 5% of the time I'm look for some other
> alternative to do an install. They make it very easy for the average user
> to run, maintain and use their OS.
> Microsoft has their issues and there will always be anti Microsoft people
> out there. Who knows if MS will ever work them out. I liked windows XP,
> not a big fan of Vista, but made it work, loving Windows7.
>
> BTW - Thanks for the laughs, I have this group up on my third monitor at
> work, and while I do my daily functions, I glance over, do a quick read
> and have a good laugh...[/color]

You don't happen to work for the government? <H>.
[color=blue]
>
> WaterBoy
>[/color]

> You don't happen to work for the government? <H>.

Doesn't sound like an obumbalite to me .. seems to think for himself.

now what?

Rich

the piffle is you, dork

Absolutely CORRECT

In article <uBSET7dWKHA.4148@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl>,
[email]r.d.green@comcast.net[/email] says...[color=blue]
>[color=green]
> > You don't happen to work for the government? <H>.[/color]
>
> Doesn't sound like an obumbalite to me .. seems to think for himself.
>
> now what?
>
> Rich[/color]

please, explain to non-native speaker - what is obumalite ?

--
Poutnik
The best depends on how the best is defined.

Poutnik wrote:[color=blue]
> In article <uBSET7dWKHA.4148@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl>,
> [email]r.d.green@comcast.net[/email] says...[color=green][color=darkred]
>>> You don't happen to work for the government? <H>.[/color]
>> Doesn't sound like an obumbalite to me .. seems to think for himself.
>>
>> now what?
>>
>> Rich[/color]
>
> please, explain to non-native speaker - what is obumalite ?
>[/color]

A childish attempt to denigrate the President of the United States.

Alias

Well if you can't use open office you must really be a bit backward, but
you said it not me.

As for being anti Microsoft it's exactly the opposite. MS brought
computing forward light years, but sometimes constructive criticism is
needed and occasionally it needs to be quite mean. Do not think of Bill
Gates and Steve Ballmer, but of the "Little" guys and girls we don't see
on TV or hear about.

I don't quite get what you say about Linux. I use it and people at work
seem to have no problems using it, although some jobs at work are tied
inextricably to Windows and that's just the way it is. However these are
tough economic times and people WILL look for cheaper choices. Linux is
a cheaper choice and therefore a threat. Unlike you I don't want to see
either "Side" lose, there is room out there for both to win.

WaterBoy wrote:[color=blue]
> Over the last 15 yeas or so, Linux was always going to take over the
> desktop. From Windows 3.11, win95, win98, winme, etc, etc...Eventually I
> go to dislike 3.11 and start to use OS/2. I thought that would have
> taken off, except I couldn't play freaking games on OS/2. I would either
> have to use win-os/2 or duel boot back into DOS. When Windows95 came
> out, it killed OS/2 and I just learned to live with it. The only real
> threat Microsoft has today is MAC, and if you really consider that a
> real threat.
> Every so often I download a distro, UBOOBOO (Sorry Alias, couldn't
> resist) , RedHat Mandrake, Slackware, and so on; and so on; and try to
> make it work, but in reality it doesn't work for the average user. I
> load it and remove it after a few days... I can't play *real* games, and
> I really can't use it in the business world for what I do. I can run
> open office, ok thanks! You really need to be a techy and you really
> need to put a lot of time and effort in making it work! (and I mean; A
> LOT OF TIME). Even when you get it to work, you will always find some
> type of incomparability or a program that you have to compile to make it
> just right.
> Microsoft, on the other hand just run setup or install, and it pretty
> much runs out of the box. Less than 5% of the time I'm look for some
> other alternative to do an install. They make it very easy for the
> average user to run, maintain and use their OS.
> Microsoft has their issues and there will always be anti Microsoft
> people out there. Who knows if MS will ever work them out. I liked
> windows XP, not a big fan of Vista, but made it work, loving Windows7.
>
> BTW - Thanks for the laughs, I have this group up on my third monitor at
> work, and while I do my daily functions, I glance over, do a quick read
> and have a good laugh...
>
> WaterBoy
>[/color]

> please, explain to non-native speaker - what is obumalite ?


heh ...

lets see .. an obumblaite would be .. oh .. someone who says that the
obumbla is the greatest writer since oh Julius Ceasar? ... how's that?

heh

Rich

> A childish attempt to denigrate the President of the United States.

the obumbla accomplishes this every time he opens his 'its someone else's
fault' mouth

back to you Keith


Rich

>> please, explain to non-native speaker - what is obumalite ?[color=blue][color=green]
>>[/color]
>
> A childish attempt to denigrate the President of the United States.
>
> Alias[/color]

First off childishness is paramount in you.
Manifest infancy.
your destiny.


obumalite is my typo it should have read obumbalite.

the obumbla is the bumbling President of the United States.
He will be remembered in history as the biggest bungler to hold high office
this country has ever seen. Well on his way there.


An obumblaite is someone who gives this bumbler a prize.
Someone who thinks this bumbler is worth his weight in chicken feathers.

Ask yourself "what's he done?"

exactly ... nothing.

He doesn't even talk a good game, never did.

Its that there are so many children roaming loose in need of a fairytale.

Rich