I know it's really ironic, but I love people like this. I laughed so hard at this mail. Made me happy to be alive. :-) Wheeeeee! Austin
On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 19:39, Kris wrote: > All you guys trying to make linux better and better is futile. Itÿs > been years now that Iÿve been waiting for linux to come even somewhat > close to the level of speed and power that windows has. The fact is > Windows XP beats the living tar out of any linux distro is undeniable > and cannot be argued with. Itÿs well worth it to anyone to pay $130 > for XP pro and get an OS that just works, has tons of support and > programs that work for it (that donÿt require ´compiling¡ that fails > 90% of the time because of some dependency made by efned gefnefnished > in gandwanaland) isnÿt available. You may think you are supporting > something good that is free, but the fact is that the time you are all > spending finding bugs, and reporting them, and working on them, and > reloading because everything crashed (even in stable distros) well > exceeds the $130 you would spend just getting XP. It took me 1 week to > get linux running the way I wanted to and it still had so many quirks > and disabilities that it was totally not worth the effort. I > reinstalled XP on my computer in 1 hour and had it running perfect. > Now you tell me, why are you doing this? -- Austin Acton Hon.B.Sc. Synthetic Organic Chemist, Teaching Assistant Department of Chemistry, York University, Toronto MandrakeClub Volunteer (www.mandrakeclub.com) homepage: www.groundstate.ca