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Centurian:
Hey,

I dont' usually reply to this kind of crap but in this case I think a response is appropriate.

Microsoft products have a bad name because they are over used...

No they have a bad name because MS is attempting to take over the internet and because they have used advertising and monoploistic tactics to brainwash the public into believing MS is better than they actually are.

you dont get any virus's

Wow and that means I don't have to waste $XXX bucks on software to protect myself from virus's.


or a wide range of USEFUL applications in *nix.

And what do you classify as useful? I can do pretty much anything I want on my nix machine. In fact I can do a great deal more than my wife can do on her W98 machine or my kids can do on their W95 machine.

Microsoft software is under a lot more stress than *nix,

Heh yeah just keep telling yourself that maybe one day you will actually believe it.

if some little kid was playing with a *nix box its possible to erase your whole hard drive right before your eyes without any warning messages or anything of the sort.

Damn sorry to crush your pretty little picture that you are attempting to paint here but my kids (6 and 9) can get on my nix machine and I don't have to worry at all about what they are doing. I set them up a special account and setup what I want them to be able to access and they can't do anything else. On their Win95 machine in their room I am constantly having to fix something that they have screwed up but on my nix box they CAN'T hurt anything.

Win is most likely just as stable as any *nix OS,

Ok so when I was running w98 my system crashed about 4 to 10 times a day. Now on Nix doing the same stuff I never crash. Sounds equally stable to me.

its what you run on it that decreases stability.

That is true to a degree.

You dont play ghost recon on a nix box do you?

Well since I have never heard of ghost recon I could not honestly say either way. Maybe I can play it with WineX maybe I can't. Oh and while we are on the subject I have over 80 games on my nix machine right now.  

you dont rip dvd's on a nix box do you?

Oh but you can and at the same time do as many other things as you wish to do. So yes nix also has great multi-tasking.

Windows XP is aimed at the new home user.

I have never owned a copy of WinXP but in the 2 months since my brother got his new gateway computer complete with Win XP I have been at his house at least 10 times to FIX his broken OS. From what I have seen of it is appears to be NT in W98 wrapper with bloat added.

All those annoying help things and reminders are there to help!,

In this area I have to agree with you 100% correct, help is much better on MS products than on nix. However you must consider that MS is paying people a fortune to make it super user friendly. Nix on the other hand is based on the free labors of thousands of people through out the world. So understandably help would be better on the MS products. However the software is better on nix.

i bet i can find thousands who swear by it.

Yes your right you can. In the 1930's millions of people swore by Adolf Hitler also. Did that make them right?

For all you people who say "my nix box has 100 day uptime" 98% of the time the box is just sitting there.. not doing a thing, maybe just running an eggdrop.

I would not know much about this because all the comps in my house are shut down every night.

SO LAY OFF !

Ok let me get this straight. People here at fuckMicrosoft.com should lay off and NOT say anything that could possibly upset a microsoft user. I see it all clearly now. Of course how could we be so cruel and unjust. Thank you so much for clearing that up for us.

Translation : Grow Up, Get a life, Think for Yourself, Don't blindly accept propaganda.

One quick after thought. Lets say you don't like cheeseburgers but everyone you know loves them. By your logic you should eat those cheeseburgers   even though you don't like them because you peers say that is how it should be.

Think about it. Linux offers choice. Windows says do it my way period.

Calum:
In response to "why is Micro-$oft a bunch of doggy doo" or whatever it was, here's a really good article, based on openminded firsthand experience, from a guy who wanted to fairly compare MacOS (presumably system 7) to Windows95. Of course it's easy to guess what conclusions he comes up with given the tone of this site!
incidentally the credit for this link goes not to me, but to cahult who posted it here.

Gooseberry Clock:

quote:Originally posted by cyrax-:
For all you people who say "my nix box has 100 day uptime" 98% of the time the box is just sitting there.. not doing a thing, maybe just running an eggdrop.
--- End quote ---


Or http://www.distributed.net/

Calum:
????
does it just do maths?
sounds like an easy way to get a virus.
I reckon that SETI program which runs in yr downtime is much better, but that's just my preference...

ryoko:
Bill "the bastard" Gates does have an Apple his ex blurted out once that he never goes anywhere without his old Apple Mac that does not have windows on it thats just for the saps, you see even the bastard knows that windows is shit.

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