> Installing Windows on a computer that you use to surf and chat and > email is like putting your SUV up on blocks, taking the tires off and > then trying to go to the grocery store and drive the kids to soccer :)
Windows has bloat, yes, but Linux has "bloat" as well, it's just a more useful sort of bloat. If you're never going to do anything besides chat and email, why would you need all of the power and flexibility that a shell gives you? An SUV is powerful and has the ability to take you off-road to a lot of places that a regular car can't; I'd say that Windows is more like a Yugo that has a really flashy paint job, a nine-disk CD changer, leather seats, and all the other options... but still falls apart when you test drive it. To compare Windows to an SUV is to give it way too much credit for power and flexibility than it deserves. On a somewhat related note, I've been thinking for a while now that somebody had ought to make a computer that has nothing but Trillian and a web browser on it. Pretty much anything that most people want to do (email, etc.) can be done via the web nowadays. ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
