Masnun, I completely understand why you wrote this post. In my opinion, it was also a necessary thing to do. I actually liked it, honestly. But people have misunderstood the post from both sides, windows and linux fans. You are also making this a bit confusing with some of your latest comments here and in projanmo.
Anyway, I am going to provide my view on why this post was required. I am a complete non-windows user, I haven't used windows since 2005. My first bought desktop was an G5 iMac, where you cannot install windows. Before that the machines I used were running RedHat or Debian or Ubuntu dual booted with windows. I am writing this from a macbook which dual boots Ubuntu with OS X. I put this history just to make it clear in which fence I live. There is always a tendency among fans to become a fanatic. This is very wrong. Fanaticism is very bad for a thing to grow. Linux always had this problem from the beginning. Only a very few handful of people used it and they wanted to keep it to themselves. They believed that it makes them an elite group in the society. Therefore newbies were mocked to death. Ubuntu was born to change this fact. This is why it has the slogan "Linux for Human". And to become a human-friendly entity requires a lot of sacrifices and patience. If you take a look at ubuntuforums.org you'll see how the same questions were answered over and over again without any mocking a newbie. This is what makes Ubuntu a unique Linux distribution. This is why Linux is becoming popular. At the moment, there is a possibility of getting this fanatic illness inside the ubuntu community. I have heard a lot of stories about people losing their data just because a linux fanatic told them to wipe out windows. This is very very bad. No one should be approached like that. People get completely wrong impressions about Linux community when such things happen. So, we need to be careful about such incidents. We should never allow fanaticism in the community. There is a wrong impression about Macs here too. Macs are not superior anymore. It gives you an all-round performance just because it has strict hardware-software integration. You can never use any kind of hardware that are not specifically made for Mac. Therefore once you are a Mac user, you have a very restricted options to use technology. And that is controlled by a very evil company on earth called Apple. The point is when you want to use something, you better comply with it. Not every single hardware is windows compatible. Not even Macs. To install windows on a Mac you need Apple's help. In fact, to install Ubuntu on a Mac you don't need Apple's help. Ubuntu runs pretty well on Macs. Technically unices are much better than windows. This is a universal truth. However, this is a geeky fact. It does not help end users. End users do not want superior things. They want a thing to work. They want cheaper hardware. They do not care about software. Actually, most of the end users do not know that software requires a lot of money to buy. They just expect it to be there. Hence the cheap manufacturers do not worry about writing drivers for other systems than windows. These cheap hardwares only get linux support only when an open source enthusiast is notified about the issue. Although the post was funny and required, it did hurt the open-source movement a little. I hope people will not be returning back to proprietary software for such writings. -- M. Nasimul Haque Senior Developer Appliansys Coventry, UK http://www.nasim.me.uk -- Ubuntu Bangladesh https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bd
