Re: Talk to your frTalk your friend into switching to Linux(Re:)

[Jeremy Crabtree <crc3419@delphi.com>]

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George Graves wrote:
> 
> In article <6k4cvb$283$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, r.e.ballard@usa.net wrote:
> 
> > Linux has really only been a good "Workstation" since 1997 (Red Hat 4.0)
> > but it has been rapidly evolving into a very sophisticated workstation.
> > When equipped with Red Hat 5.0 or Caldera 1.2 and Communicator 4.0 and
> > an Office Suite from Corel, Applix, or StarOffice, you end up with a very
> > sweet machine for a very reasonable price.
> 
> Bullshit. You end up with a very techy, very geeky OS that makes the user
> jump back through his own rectum in order to perform even the simplest
> task. You get an OS with almost NO software available for it and that which
> is available is VERY primitive (StarOffice, for example). If one is already a
> "Unixmeister", its probabaly fine. If one is not, its a nightmare. Whichever
> you are, your computer needs have to be pretty simple in terms of
> functionality, because most software categories simply are not represented.

Hmm....sounds like the rantings of a troll who hasn't actually *USED*
the software...

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Vive Macintosh, all hail OS/2, Long live the Amiga, UNIX forever, umm,
and all the other systems I didn't mention. We all compute differently,
get over it.                                          Jeremy Crabtree