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voidmain:
I was joking and using his words.  I thought we were offering good suggestions as well.  He can take them or leave them.  It's not like we are "selling" anything, or "making any money" from all of our time on these forums helping people who ask for it.  Geez.  I thought your Mac suggestion was a very good one, and in fact I was going to suggest it if you hadn't.

lazygamer:
Im 17 so I guess I count as a kid.  

voidmain:
Yes, you would be considered "just off the skate board".

choasforages:
dude, this guy was like expecting things from us. remember, we give help becuase we want to give help, not becuase we have a contract to help or its a god given right to ask us for help. being pissy about what advice we give is not nice. some actaully try to help. how many forums have you been on before. you ask a quenstion and see what people post and whether you like it or not. complaining about what advice is given is like looking the gift horse in the mouth.

Calum:

quote:So ... I'm not a computer hobbyist. I do other things with my life, To me, a computer is just an appliance. I'm mad at Microsoft because their appliances are harder and harder to use with each "upgrade," and they spy on me, too. But I unless I dedicate my life to Linux, then I'm a moron.
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Willysnout, you seem clever but you make too many commonplace assumptions.
Use what you like. Linux is not a company like those dotcoms, like Microsoft.

if you hate Microsoft but refuse to use linux then you can choose a no-longer-supported OS like solaris or Beos, or you can get a BSD, or some other "harder to use" specialist OSs, or you can buy specialty hardware and fork out a mint. a Mac is the cheapest option here i am thinking, with RiscOS, Solaris9 and so on all needing special CPUs to run.

As i said, linux is not a company. if you happen to see a linux advert it is because some company (probably IBM, hewlett packard, or possibly apple and sun in the future) are using their own money to make linux further their own ends. Those companies are not startups like your dotcoms, and International Business Machines are not going to go bust anytime soon. As far as i know they are over one hundred years old. I know for a fact they are at least 60 or 70 years old. I bet that's older than any poster here, and the point is, not only do they endorse linux, they advertise it.

If you want to go around saying you are a moron, then go for it. But YOU SAID IT FIRST. I put it to you that you have a guilty conscience.

If somebody here says that people are morons, it's usually because they are morons, either way it is ALWAYS a person's own opinion. If a company says in an advert that you are a moron THEN you have grounds for complaint. But NOT if somebody exercises their own right of free speech. That is what linux is all about. Free speech.

I am an advocate of free speech. This is why i believe that you should have the right to choose which operating system to use on your computer, a choice that at least one company would deny to you. It is also why i will stand up for any individual's right to call you or anybody else a moron, for any reason.

I suppose i might as well add that i am in no way calling you a moron, although i think that much should be obvious by now.

I look forward to reading your response, willysnout.

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