On Monday 07 June 2004 21:13, Josenildo Marques wrote:
The Wine they have must be pretty good... Well, maybe it'll help shy users to migrate...
Only and ONLY if it emulates the bugs and viruses will it give those poor suckers a nice and fuzzy feeling. Something like: "Hey, look what I didn't get this time!";)
The only good WIne will have to BSOD me at least twice a day to be credible.
Good luck,
HarM
Finally! I think someone has finally hit the nail on the head! IMNSHO, that's exactly what Linux is missing! Can someone here write a quick and nasty little applet that will emulate a Microsoft Crash Panel?
One of those "Windows has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down" type of pop-ups? We could certainly change the text to whatever we wanted, and in the spirit of "Open-Source" we could give users the ability to change the text!
For instance, it could say something like;
"Oops! I did it again!" ( But that might sound too much like a Britney Spears" song ),
Or how's about,...
"Patches? We don't need no steenking Patches!",
Or,
"It's about time I crashed! It's only been about 3 years since you bothered to reboot me, Idiot!"
We could also try something different - we could have Linux tell the truth! How about these warnings?
"Linux hasn't crashed yet, but in order to make you feel more comfortable, would you please reboot me once in a while?"
My Personal favourite;
"An almost irrelevant application has finally decided to take a break for a few seconds, and stopped working. Not to worry though, the application will now work as reliably as it has in the past. Please don't reboot unless you need a coffee break!"
And finally,
"if this was Windows, you'd be cursing about the data you just lost as a result of an untimely crash, so in order to help you vent some pent up hostilities, Linux will now delete an important file from your system. Please press OK to continue!"
Have I missed anything?
Maybe after someone adds this kind of functionality to Linux, it will finally be accepted as a "World-Class" Desktop O/S?? Who knows! It might come down to something as silly as that to give Linux credibility through-out the world? (Man, I seriously hope not, but you never know!)
Grin!
Lanman
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