I actually have little against Windows - personally, I think XP is a fine OS (best Windows by far yet, IMO). Where I take exception is the company itself and its business practices.
If my printer worked properly in Linux (for some reason it works right off the bat after I reboot or after I use printerdrake to install it (again) but it stops working after about a half hour or so, most annoying), I would only use Windows to play games. Now that OpenOffice 1.0 is out (a VERY NICE product, not quite as powerful as Word but comparable), I don't even need to use Office. :) Strangely enough, my networking in Windows dies on me after about an hour of being up (I have a cable modem and am always online) but under Linux, I have zero problems with the networking. I have no clue how to go about fixing the problem in Windows but when I had a similar problem in linux, was able to resolve it in about 10 minutes - who says using Linux is harder? :) And now that KDE 3.0 is out, I finally have a GUI in linux that I like. I have no complaints whatsoever. :) James ps. I really need to switch email accounts (this is owned by Microsoft) but it's so hard to do - anyone know of any free mail forwarding site that acts as a sort of relay so if you change ISPs or email addresses, there are no problems and no one has to be given a new address? >I agree whole heartedly with you on this subject. >The unfortunate part is that there appear to be no moderators on this >list. > >I wish people would stop taking such a negative attitude to windows, we >were all windows users at one point. > >NB > >On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 21:21, Nick Andriash wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > ---- > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com James Thomas http://www.finality.com _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.
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