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Why do you prefer *nix?
Bazoukas:
quote:Originally posted by Calum:
wow! i didn expect people to reply so strongly to zombie632718637128 posts so long after the fact! just wanted to let people see some of the gems that used to come up on this board all the time! makes me realise how many people never stuck around though, when i remember all those names....
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We should hunt them down and kill them. Thats what I think.
voidmain:
quote:Originally posted by Calum:
it also features (if you go to page one) one of the, if not the, very first of the many celebrated altercations between void main and zombie64763248236478! void main characteristically tells him he is full of shit!
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Ah the good old days... when I still had a little breath...
Calum:
quote:Originally posted by Windows XP User #5225982375:
If you use your computer basically as a glorified gaming console, or you simply have no problems with Windows and don't care about other OS's, then I'd say there is no compelling reason to use *nix. Use *nix if you're curious and want to know more about how computers work. (Or if you're one of those GNU guys who thinks it is immoral to use non-free software) With Linux, for instance, you can build your own OS (linux from scratch, anyone?) and you have access to free compiler tools and source code. Certainly a great OS for anyone majoring in computer science.
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? xp user, has somebody found out your password and is posing as you? or are you trying to gain people's confidence? i suspect that you are actually posting as somebody else (possibly unixsucks) and you think it would be funny to be positive about linux in one ID and negative in another. is this the case?
slave:
quote: Posted by Calum:
? xp user, has somebody found out your password and is posing as you? or are you trying to gain people's confidence? i suspect that you are actually posting as somebody else (possibly unixsucks) and you think it would be funny to be positive about linux in one ID and negative in another. is this the case?
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No, it's not the case, (and I'm not unixsucks that's for sure) it's just that I think anyone majoring in CS would like Linux since it is not only pretty mature but you can look at all the source code. However, most people would not like Linux on their PC's because they aren't developers and they could care less about how a kernel works. They just want to use their PC like an appliance. Windows XP works great in this case. (and OS X, if you want to spend a lot of money on over-priced macs) People wouldn't use XP if they didn't like it, and there isn't anything to not like about XP besides the fact that it is a little over-priced and you have to "activate" it (though not if you download the corporate edition and generate your own corporate key using the XP Blue List generator so you can do windows update without being denied access by MS (and at least Windows update isn't always "too busy" like the red hat network)
Plus the fonts that come with linux are usually way, way too crappy. I think it's all a plot by optometrists to ruin people's eyesight so they'll have to buy glasses or contacts. How hard are good fonts to create anyway?
Calum:
i see, so it is the old confidence gaining trick, eh?
you say something nice about linux, then i, or somebody else goes 'wtf???' and you chime in saying, oh yes, linux is great BUT most people would prefer windows xp.'
i imagine that your idea is that any normal dunderhead reading this page will get that far and decide that linux is not for them, since you use reasonable language they will be most likely to believe what you say out of hand.
Well you are right, and i hope that anybody dumb enough to fall for this trick does end up using XP. as you say, most people are too dumb to need all the extra much better features of linux anyway, so more fool them. Of course they'll be screaming when their system starts losing data and crashing because its too busy phoning home, but they can ring M$ support about thet...
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