At 01:02 morn 9/4/02 -0700, TN wrote:
Easy pal ,cool down,
windoz (dumb) ppl don't understand this , they are addicted to it , they think windoz is GOD and Billu is making money out of all this.
Well i am very hopeful that LINUX will make a dent to this notion and will surely be a victor.
We all should encourage people to use LINUX and tell the benefits that u mentioned.
Windows as an OS has evolved. M$ is good at getting inspired (read stealing ideas) from a lot of sources. But they put it in one package and give you. For someone who is not a geek/nerd/developer (or all of them together), and willing to pay a few Ks then Windows is a good choice. And - there is a *huge* number of good free software for windows too, of late.
There are a *lot* of people out there who dont want to be awake at 2am trying to get something to work. They just want to click, get a presentation done for tomorrow in 20 minutes and go to bed. I personally do all my programming in Linux (where lives emacs :). But I still trip on winamp+tripex3 and surf the net with IE. (X-windows suxx majorly.)
We are all here because we love Linux. It gives a geek/nerd/developer/et.al the freedom of creativity and choice. It is blinding fast. You get to play with it and make it do things not possible on any M$ products (maybe). But I, at leaset, do not come here because I hate windows.
I feel very queasy when people want to jump on the Linux bandwagon saying it is the coolest. It is indeed cool, but what is most important is that it has the potential to be ~170 deg K.
quasi