Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on March 12, 2006 07:50 AM
"Windows is, indeed, a better desktop OS."
Statement of opinion as objective fact. How enlightened.
Please enlighten me further by explaining how one recovers from a graphical lockup without rebooting in windows XP/2003/Longhorn/ if random program x is glitchy.
Or do I have to "benefit" from the superiority of it taking the whole system down just because the GUI froze.
Please explain to me where during the windows setup process I can install all necessary drivers, office software, media players, accounting packages, 3d design suites and all major competing web browsers and email clients if I want to.
Oh no - that's right, I have to "benefit" from "superior" features like spending 800 dollars on basic productivity software before I start.
I also have to "benefit" from having to download drivers unless I want vesa only and NO WORKING USB 2 FOR 2-300 DOLLARS!
Please explain how, under windows my girlfriend can use my processor if she's gaming and wants to play audio on her machine without costing fps?
Oh yeah, can't be done at all because of all that superiority jazz.
Please explain how I can drop a commercial linux binary onto a windows system and run it if I need to like wine can the other way around?
Oh yeah - I have to benefit from not being able to do that too. Real superior.
Please explain how a proper drag'n'drop implementation can be switched on under windows - oh yeah - it's superior so it doesn't have that!
Please explain how an average email-using person can use their mousewheel and right button to use as many copy-and-paste slots as they they want on a standard windows install?
Oh yeah - we have to benefit from an archaic clipboard that can't do that.
Please explain how I can chain together any desktop apps of my choice using any programming language I like, or the shell, or DCOP, to automate almost any task without learning anything new?
Oh, can't do that?
Superior? Windows doesn't even vaguely compete, and I say that not as a linux zealot, but as someone whose computer would be basically ruined by having windows on it now.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 12, 2006 07:50 AMStatement of opinion as objective fact. How enlightened.
Please enlighten me further by explaining how one recovers from a graphical lockup without rebooting in windows XP/2003/Longhorn/ if random program x is glitchy.
Or do I have to "benefit" from the superiority of it taking the whole system down just because the GUI froze.
Please explain to me where during the windows setup process I can install all necessary drivers, office software, media players, accounting packages, 3d design suites and all major competing web browsers and email clients if I want to.
Oh no - that's right, I have to "benefit" from "superior" features like spending 800 dollars on basic productivity software before I start.
I also have to "benefit" from having to download drivers unless I want vesa only and NO WORKING USB 2 FOR 2-300 DOLLARS!
Please explain how, under windows my girlfriend can use my processor if she's gaming and wants to play audio on her machine without costing fps?
Oh yeah, can't be done at all because of all that superiority jazz.
Please explain how I can drop a commercial linux binary onto a windows system and run it if I need to like wine can the other way around?
Oh yeah - I have to benefit from not being able to do that too. Real superior.
Please explain how a proper drag'n'drop implementation can be switched on under windows - oh yeah - it's superior so it doesn't have that!
Please explain how an average email-using person can use their mousewheel and right button to use as many copy-and-paste slots as they they want on a standard windows install?
Oh yeah - we have to benefit from an archaic clipboard that can't do that.
Please explain how I can chain together any desktop apps of my choice using any programming language I like, or the shell, or DCOP, to automate almost any task without learning anything new?
Oh, can't do that?
Superior? Windows doesn't even vaguely compete, and I say that not as a linux zealot, but as someone whose computer would be basically ruined by having windows on it now.
Don't talk out of your hat.
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