Hi All,
firstly, these are just my opinions so lets not start a war.
I think most of us would agree that linux is not the easiest to use and in X,
it is not the fastest and still not near the ease of use of windows - Mozilla
takes a good few seconds to load up on at least the lower spec
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 08:44:45PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote:
Colin Watson wrote:
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 03:28:42PM -0700, Ben Hartshorne wrote:
And he does have a point. The anti-M$ sentiment has led to a number of
comments on this list that, were I thinking of transitioning to Linux,
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 02:14:45AM -0700, Shriram Shrikumar wrote:
Hi All,
firstly, these are just my opinions so lets not start a war.
I think most of us would agree that linux is not the easiest to use
and in X, it is not the fastest and still not near the ease of use of
windows -
* dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
...
Sorry to disappoint you Hall, but I have used windows since the first
release of 95, and still have to use it regularly. Up until about 2
weeks ago I had to have NT, then 2k on my machine at work.
Fortunately for me I now have Debian running on it.
From: Hall Stevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Finally, what I'm really interested in is the adamant MS-bashers and
when they've last used Windows. If they're s against it, I
assume they either never have or it's been 5+ years.
I'm not an adamant MS-bahser, at least I don't think so ;)
However,
, anyways. Hope this wasn't
off topic.
Brad R.
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To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
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From: Hall Stevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED
Colin Watson wrote:
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 08:44:45PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote:
Colin Watson wrote:
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 03:28:42PM -0700, Ben Hartshorne wrote:
And he does have a point. The anti-M$ sentiment has led to a number of
comments on this list that, were I thinking
On Thursday 11 October 2001 17:14, Shriram Shrikumar wrote:
Linux is a couple of steps behing in ease of use in comparison to
windows. Windows is weak where linux is especially strong like
stability and flexibility. Ms has billions of dollars to invest
getting windows to be as good as Linux
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 12:24:36PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote:
Unfortunately, as is usually the case with interoperability problems,
there's no clear place to go first: mutt doesn't want to change because
it's using the open standard correctly and m$ doesn't want to change
because it's using
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 03:28:42PM -0700, Ben Hartshorne wrote:
And he does have a point. The anti-M$ sentiment has led to a number of
comments on this list that, were I thinking of transitioning to Linux,
would deter me from doing so because self-righteousness is rarely very
friendly.
I
And he does have a point. The anti-M$ sentiment has led to a
number of comments on this list that, were I thinking of
transitioning
to Linux, would deter me from doing so because
self-righteousness
is rarely very friendly.
I couldn't agree more. Despite not having used a Microsoft
Hall writes:
Finally, what I'm really interested in is the adamant MS-bashers and when
they've last used Windows. If they're s against it, I assume they
either never have or it's been 5+ years.
It's been more than five years since I have used any Microsoft product.
While not much of an
... I do find discussions of Microsoft and its products boring
and usually off-topic
Agreed. I guess I'm being a hypocrite though ;-)
Why shouldn't people with Microsoft-specific problems be
told to ask Microsoft for help?
This is kinda my point. If you haven't used an MS product in 'x'
Hall Stevenson wrote:
Finally, what I'm really interested in is the adamant MS-bashers and
when they've last used Windows. If they're s against it, I
assume they either never have or it's been 5+ years.
Regards
Hall
I'm a support tech at a university, keeping the PCs and Macs running
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 09:59:14PM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote:
...
| Finally, what I'm really interested in is the adamant MS-bashers and
| when they've last used Windows. If they're s against it, I
| assume they either never have or it's been 5+ years.
Sorry to disappoint you Hall, but I
On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Kent West wrote:
Hall Stevenson wrote:
Finally, what I'm really interested in is the adamant MS-bashers and
when they've last used Windows. If they're s against it, I
assume they either never have or it's been 5+ years.
Regards
Hall
I'm a
Hall Stevenson writes:
This is kinda my point. If you haven't used an MS product in 'x' number
of years, how do you know it's the fault of the MS program ??
I thought you were implying that the MS bashers were hypocrites who did
use MS daily rather than people like me who haven't used it in
Colin Watson wrote:
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 03:28:42PM -0700, Ben Hartshorne wrote:
And he does have a point. The anti-M$ sentiment has led to a number of
comments on this list that, were I thinking of transitioning to Linux,
would deter me from doing so because self-righteousness is
Hall Stevenson wrote:
...
This is kinda my point. If you haven't used an MS product in 'x'
number of years, how do you know it's the fault of the MS program ??
Simply 'cause MS makes it ?? Because others who also haven't used
that's actually a pretty good heuristics.
(I use windows
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