Adrian I use both, Windows98 and linux Mandrake; I will never say that windows user ar fools; windows has good things, but... - You must pay a lot for it. - You must pay for each update and frequently those updates are just partial bug solver. - Almost every years you should upgrade and every time you need a more powerfull computer. - You can't know the source code, there are lot of well informed sources that think windows could content some spyware. - With XP your computer seems to be controled by windows. So I am just using windows because some applications that I need still don't run under linux, but everytime are less and less. Linux was problematic for a long time but with the new releases (mandrake from 7.2 and last Suse) you have: - A better desktop than windows - High hardware compatibility - Lots and lots of applications even better thant the windows ones, including both, opensource and commercial withou source avalaiblity. - More and more easy installations of the main packages. - Games (yes, also we or our children need games) Do you know the commercial release of tuxracer?, I like it so much, as we said in Spain, ¡es la caña!; Quake III, Age of Empires (runing from wine), and so on..... But, at the moment, there are more games to play under windows than under linux; I hope in the future this relation will be more balanced. - Dos emulations: some old dos packages can be run with dosemu or xdosemu; Windows XP has loss the capability to run dos packages. BTW, there will be Staroffice for windows; nowadays you can download the Openoffice 1.0 for windows also (www.openoffice.org), I have tested it and run like a charm. Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) ----- Mensaje Original ----- Remitente: Nick Andriash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fecha: Viernes, Mayo 3, 2002 3:21 am Asunto: Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6 - the different perceptions explained > On Thursday, May 02 2002 at 05:17 PM PDT, you wrote: > > > A fool and his money are soon using Windows. > > I am/was beginning to experiment with Linux using Mandrake 8.2 but am > disheartened to see signatures such as yours. How typical of Linux > Users...and almost enough to make me gag and want to wipe Linux off > my Computer. > > Tell me something Shane... Why do you feel Windows Users are fools? > I use > Windows... am I a fool in your eyes? You don't even know me, so > where do > you get off labelling me as one... and putting something like that > in your > signature? No wonder Users are slow to try Linux, what with > greetings like > yours. I am amazed that the List Moderators haven't said anything > to you. > > -- > Nick Andriash > Courtenay, B.C. Canada > > >
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