Rumor has it that James B. DiGriz may have mentioned these words:
>Richard Erlacher wrote:
>> All the MS-haters' rants do is shore up the belief that it's just sour
grapes.
*If* they can't quantify their reasoning. [[ Which, is most of the
MS-haters you see/hear about]] Just saying "M$ Sucks. BG is the
devil-incarnate. Linux Roolz!" is totally useless.
Trying to get my Dell laptop [it's for work] to do something similar to a
"Suspend" so I didn't have to wait 6 minutes for the thing to boot Win2K
(Because, of course, XP Sucks! ;-) was quite harrowing. The BIOS-based
tools... Suck! Suspend to RAM didn't work (knackered up the touchpad most
times)... Suspend to Disk didn't work (locked machine completely)...
Finally, I enabled the Hibernate feature in Win2K, and it... well... mostly
works. Sometimes it works flawlessly, sometimes it munges my Minimize,
Maximize & Close buttons to random patterns of color, but otherwise, it's
just as stable when it comes out of Hibernate as anything. Is it "buggy?"
Sure. Can I at least *live* with the bugs? Yea, I suppose. I can figure out
where to put the pointer to make it do what I want. Is it the best option
available? Definately.
[no room on the puny 6G HD for Linux, tho... it's fully Linux certified as
well...]
>> If one could take one of today's high school grad's and plunk him/her
down in
>> front of a *NIX box and be able to get a little useful work from him/her
THAT
>> SAME DAY, which one certainly can do with Windows, then *NIX would be much
>> more widely used.
If one could find more than 1/10 of the high school grads who *actually
wanna work*, they'd be much more widely used...
>I know more people who won't read a book than will, if it comes to that.
> It's always been possible to set up *nix apps for non-technical users
>who have no clue about a command-line shell. And there've been powerful,
>networked GUI's for *nix for a long, long time.
Ask my wife. She found DEC/Compaq Tru64 Unix easier to use than Winders
95.... until I needed office apps on that machine. She still finds Linux
easier to use than Winders, and is quite happy about the fact she can "turn
it on and use it" without needing to learn about the upkeep of Winders, and
knows that she can't fsck it up by doing something foolish; something I
couldn't *completely* prevent using WinNT4. And she's tried, lemme tell ya.
I came home one day to "I tried deleting this file 'cause I didn't think I
need it, and it won't let me." IIRC, it was the /lib directory...
>If you've ever been around me after struggling to install a freaking
>driver in Windows for half a day (any version after 3.1 or so, or WfW)
>and have it stay put and play nice with everybody else, you've heard
>more than a rant.
And *you're* knowledgeable enough to be a true M$-hater, not just a
wannabee... ;-) [[ unlike most of the current fools on /. ]]
>Agreed it's counterproductive, though. It's the same thing, in fact. I
>don't hate MS. It's just irrelevant to me anymore. People ask me to
>install Linux now, in fact. It's getting quite good as a desktop OS.
>Office apps and all.
Yup.
ObClassicCmp: Anyone ever get OS-9/68K running on a Palm yet??? :-)
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
--
Roger "Merch" Merchberger --- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers
Recycling is good, right??? Ok, so I'll recycle an old .sig.
If at first you don't succeed, nuclear warhead
disarmament should *not* be your first career choice.
Received on Tue Apr 23 2002 - 17:35:26 BST