I myself use dual boot. One reason is the _professional_ CAD CAM program I use won't run on Ubuntu. Neither will the _professional_ PCB design programs I use. So Ubuntu has a ways to go before "I" could really use it in a _professional_ manner.
> If they ignore it, /dev/null > (the bottomless trash pit) is always waiting. > Regarding the above statement, a refusal to take on board legitimate and relevant criticism from folks who are expressing their honest evaluation of the product and their dissatisfaction with certain aspects of it (and if that counts as not being "pleasant to be around" as far as behavior goes or "whining and screaming" that how on earth will ANY criticism EVER be acceptable?) cannot be helpful to anyone concerned and that is one BIG reason why if things remain as they are now Ubuntu will never really make it to the big leagues, whether some want it to or not. Again I reiterate that labeling people as "dishonest" for merely expressing in a non-aggressive and relatively moderate manner a reasonably held negative opinion derived from their own personal experience about aspects of a PC operating system and then further characterizing them as "whiners and screamers" for holding views that are contrary to others must not be ultimately beneficial to the development of that community either, no, instead it would be detrimental. I would hope that most in the Ubuntu community are mature enough to understand that. I would rather discuss the whys and wherefores of the issues instead of if I am a nut, retard, incompetent, liar, cry-baby or whatever the next adjectives de jour may be for mentioning any criticism. I may be all of those things (been called much worse) but calling folks you have never met and don't know names simply because you disagree with some of their opinions they have had the termacity to publish in a public forum doesn't in any conceivable way help solve the issues with Ubuntu. Because in reality the nub of the problem lies not with its users nearly so much as with Ubuntu. -Ken > > _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
