Rick Fry wrote:
>
> I'm only going to say that I never heard of Accelerated-X. I never said that
> Windows was "great" or any other descriptive adjective. Hell, it doesn't
> properly multi-task and there are a lot of other problems. I'm just saying
> that I've never come across any of the problems you "Windoze haters" have
> had with it. I don't get any [let alone a lot of] BSOD's nor do I have to
> hack into regedit to get it to work. I installed Windows 2000 release
> candidate 1 last month or so and it automatically found my scanner, printer,
> and even my USB camera and configured to use them. I don't have to MOUNT
> anything in order to use it. I just want to access what's on my CD, I don't
> want to have sex with it nor am I a taxidermist. I don't want to have to go
> edit things in config files that I can access in menus in Windows. I even
> have Windows 98 second edition on the same partition as 2000. I only have
> that for the one or two things that don't work well in NT [or as it's also
> known as 2000]. My Memorex CDRW won't work in NT.
>
> Basically I'm running a Celeron 400 with 128M of ram and a total of 20G of
> hard disk space.
If you're happy being a user, that's fine. There are plenty of people
in the world that just want things to work when they sit down at them.
My parents are those kinds of people. I have no problem with it, just
don't shit on the parade of those of us who really LIKE making things
work together that probably don't belong together.
There is a price you pay (right now) for using Linux. That price is
diminished hardware support "out of the box". It could even be as steep
as "it will never work with Linux" (in the case of WinModems). Most of
us are perfectly willing to pay that price for an operating system and
supporting applications that don't nickel and dime us to death trying to
get some work done.
I don't have any inkling of encouraging my parents to move to Linux.
The things they want to do are not available with it. However, they
also don't have the kind of power and flexibility on their machine that
I have with mine.
To each their own...
--
Steve Philp
Network Administrator
Advance Packaging Corp.
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