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From: za kAT on 17 Apr 2010 05:50 On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 01:19:18 GMT, Bear Bottoms wrote: >> Try Mint. Or PCLinuxOS. Or SimplyMEPIS. Surely you'll be able to figure >> one of those out. >> > > OK, I'll give one a shot tomorrow. Oh, looky here. Mr extraordinaire is finally realising his assault on F/OSS has been a seriously unpopular move. It's been like pulling teeth, and I'm sure we have a ways to go yet. <wipes a tear> -- zakAT(a)pooh.the.cat - www.zakATsKopterChat.com
From: za kAT on 17 Apr 2010 07:20 On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 11:04:20 GMT, Bear Bottoms wrote: > You make erroneous conclusions. I don't want to deal with the rough > edges. Most people don't hence Linux's capture of only 1% of the market > share after nine years. Why go backwards. It's not backwards. It's sideways. You can't grasp the simple fact that 'Linux' isn't Windows. 'Linux' [in it's various forms] does /some/ things considerably better than Windows. For you I doubt it, but others with different interests may benefit from having a look. -- zakAT(a)pooh.the.cat - www.zakATsKopterChat.com
From: Mark Warner on 17 Apr 2010 08:12 Bear Bottoms wrote: > Bear Bottoms <bearbottoms1(a)gmai.com> wrote in > news:Xns9D5CCEBF29F8Abearbottoms1gmaicom(a)69.16.185.247: > >> Mark Warner <mhwarner.inhibitions(a)gmail.com> wrote in >> news:82sf6cFv26U1 @mid.individual.net: >>> Try Mint. Or PCLinuxOS. Or SimplyMEPIS. Surely you'll be able to >>> figure one of those out. >> >> OK, I'll give one a shot tomorrow. > > Why Tea just helped remind me why I don't want to experiment any farther > with Linux...you have helped a bit also. Linux is still too rough around > the edges. So does this mean you're chickening out? -- Mark Warner MEPIS Linux Registered Linux User #415318 ....lose .inhibitions when replying
From: Mark Warner on 17 Apr 2010 08:27 Bear Bottoms wrote: > Mark Warner wrote: >> Bear Bottoms wrote: >>> Bear Bottoms wrote: >>>> Mark Warner wrote: >>>>> Try Mint. Or PCLinuxOS. Or SimplyMEPIS. Surely you'll be able to >>>>> figure one of those out. >>>> OK, I'll give one a shot tomorrow. >>> Why Tea just helped remind me why I don't want to experiment any >>> farther with Linux...you have helped a bit also. Linux is still too >>> rough around the edges. >> So does this mean you're chickening out? > > Yup. I can't think of one single good reason to move to Linux. I can > think of a lot of reasons not to. > > I want the best operating system, and if that means paying for it...I > will. Windows is still and currently the best operating system. > > I want to use programs and the Internet with the simplest and least > interaction with my OS and I want to be able to stay on top of the most > innovative hardware and software in the richest computing > environment...Linux ain't it. How do you know all this? Reading blogs? -- Mark Warner MEPIS Linux Registered Linux User #415318 ....lose .inhibitions when replying
From: Gordon Darling on 17 Apr 2010 08:52
On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 08:12:55 -0400, Mark Warner wrote: > Bear Bottoms wrote: >> Bear Bottoms <bearbottoms1(a)gmai.com> wrote in >> news:Xns9D5CCEBF29F8Abearbottoms1gmaicom(a)69.16.185.247: >> >>> Mark Warner <mhwarner.inhibitions(a)gmail.com> wrote in >>> news:82sf6cFv26U1 @mid.individual.net: > >>>> Try Mint. Or PCLinuxOS. Or SimplyMEPIS. Surely you'll be able to >>>> figure one of those out. >>> >>> OK, I'll give one a shot tomorrow. >> >> Why Tea just helped remind me why I don't want to experiment any >> farther with Linux...you have helped a bit also. Linux is still too >> rough around the edges. > > So does this mean you're chickening out? Nope, just lying again. It seems to be pathological in the Bear's case. Regards Gordon -- ox·y·mo·ron n. pl. ox·y·mo·ra or ox·y·mo·rons A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined, as in Microsoft Security, Microsoft Help and Microsoft Works. |