on 21/7/2001 8:31 AM, Nikhil Joshi at nikhiljoshy@yahoo.com wrote:
I have seen many Linux users (Linux users in general and not just linuxers) referring to Windows or it's apps in rather demeaning way e.g. window$,win....,M$ Win.., windoze, etc. Why are we so
You missed one, winDOZE... :-)
intolerant ? I mean we have been using this OS since it's arrival .Most of us (I am not sure but I guess) have dual boot system . I am not professing the use of Windows but I think it is imperative for us to understand that Windows is here to stay ,at least in the desktop environment .
I haven't used winDOZE in 2 years, its either been Linux or my beloved Macintosh. WinDOZE could have stayed, but if you have read up on the net about the XP registration procedures, gawd, I think they are digging their own grave.
Also I think Windows is affordable for most users ( OEM stuff ) .So I think the argument that Windows costs a fortune is not true. In Linux too we have commercial distributions ( Suse,Corel, Red Hat Deluxe Workstation,etc..) whose costs are comparable to that of Windows 95 or 98 .
What happens when you buy an OEMed machine is, you also pay the cost of winDOZE along with the hardware, you just don't know that. I don't think you get winDOZE for Rs.200/- (check out FreeOS.com)
So the question is why do we hate Windows so much ? Are we jealous of it's success or is it just unwritten rule for Linux users to snub it ?
A person would be jealous of something/someone's success only if that thing/person mattered to him/her, winDOZE is something that we are least bothered about :-)
~Mayuresh