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

[gmgraves@slip.net (George Graves)]

In article <6k5h0b$7i8$1@winter.news.erols.com>, clee2@envirolink.org
(Chris Lee) wrote:

> In article <356631ED.40DA8AE4@delphi.com>, crc3419@delphi.com says...
> >
> ><WARNING TROLL ALERT! TROLL ALERT! TROLL ALERT! TROLL ALERT! TROLL
> >ALERT!>
> >
> >
> >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...
> 
> Or a Windows 95-98 cripple/shareware programer who sees his market in danger
> if more and more people start to abandon the windows plaform in favor of 
> Linux, since the Linux platform doesn't follow the windows model....

You guys are clueless. I wouldn't use Windows if it were literally the only OS
left on the face of the earth. I hate it that much - And I'm not a programmer!

George Graves