Will, You are a truly gifted writer of advertisements for Linux. Quit your current job and apply at your nearest Linux distro publisher or Linux oriented magazine.
John Hebert On 9/16/05, Will Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That's a joke, but I'll answer it. Windoze is installed but I won't use it > due to severe GUI, system stability, system security even attitude > shortcomings. > > On the desktop, I might consider using Windoze if I can have multiple > virtual > workspaces, a truly integrated browser/file manager, and full featured > productivity software all for the cost of a single blank CD. A single > workspace desktop does not hold what I'm doing. Even if the windows UI did > act like KDE's desktop or Enlightenment, the underlying menu system is > confusing and incomplete. It's just plain aggravating. The laptop has > office, but I'd be hard pressed to do what I have to do with that alone > and > would have to download dozens of programs to try to make up what Mepis > includes on a single CD. About all Office has going for it is a > spreadsheet. > I could spend the time and effort to download the Mozilla and Open Office > suits to make up for that, but I'd still be lacking Konqueror and Kmail > features I'm addicted to. Even if I could get an sftp client that works > well, I would not use it. Using a Windoze box with secure shell is kind of > like hiring a protitute to guard your house. > > In some alternate world, that bears no resemblance to this one, Microsoft > has > colaborated with KDE, Sun, Gnome and Knoppix. In that world my laptop > shipped with MSepis, much like Mepis except it's based on the NT kernel > and > networking. I still want nothing to do with it because it's still going to > require frequent reboots and have a 12 minute half life on any network. > Why > would I fool around with something like that when I can have the real > thing > instead? > > I'll take the few quirks Mepis has over running XP. They may be so > annoying > that it's easier for me to cart around and use my 233 MHz laptop, but XP > is > simply unusable. > > On Tuesday 13 September 2005 08:17 am, Brad Bendily wrote: > > Try installing windows XP, that should fix it up! ;) > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20050917/2a74c14c/attachment.htm From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Sep 17 10:09:46 2005 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Will Hill) Date: Sat Sep 17 10:09:25 2005 Subject: [brlug-general] Inspiron 2200 In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> What a nice thought, thanks John. There's a catch - I have to be doing things to notice what's wrong and what's right. In the mean time, I'm having fun with my little rants and anyone can read them. On Saturday 17 September 2005 08:34 am, John Hebert wrote: > You are a truly gifted writer of advertisements for Linux. Quit your > current job and apply at your nearest Linux distro publisher or Linux > oriented magazine.
