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From: Phil on 14 Apr 2010 16:10 On 11/04/2010 01:18, Mark Warner wrote: > > Just curious. How many here use desktop Linux on a regular basis? > Doesn't need to be your primary platform, but use it enough to consider > yourself a "user". > No Did once and maybe will again as a 2nd OS
From: Phil on 14 Apr 2010 16:11 On 11/04/2010 01:30, Bear Bottoms wrote: > Mark Warner<mhwarner.inhibitions(a)gmail.com> wrote in news:82ciq0FbsmU2 > @mid.individual.net: > >> >> Just curious. How many here use desktop Linux on a regular basis? >> Doesn't need to be your primary platform, but use it enough to consider >> yourself a "user". >> > > Oh my god....you are trying a feel good recovery now. You are saying > "Dudes, help me out here...I'm getting my butt wiped." > > The fact is Mark that since 1991, Linux has not even garnered a solid 1% of > the market share. That is a failure magnificant. > Not really. Are they going to go broke ? No.
From: za kAT on 14 Apr 2010 16:22 On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 21:11:43 +0100, Phil wrote: > On 11/04/2010 01:30, Bear Bottoms wrote: >> Mark Warner<mhwarner.inhibitions(a)gmail.com> wrote in news:82ciq0FbsmU2 >> @mid.individual.net: >> >>> >>> Just curious. How many here use desktop Linux on a regular basis? >>> Doesn't need to be your primary platform, but use it enough to consider >>> yourself a "user". >>> >> >> Oh my god....you are trying a feel good recovery now. You are saying >> "Dudes, help me out here...I'm getting my butt wiped." >> >> The fact is Mark that since 1991, Linux has not even garnered a solid 1% of >> the market share. That is a failure magnificant. >> > > Not really. > Are they going to go broke ? > No. Did you take the entire jar of stupid pills? -- zakAT(a)pooh.the.cat - www.zakATsKopterChat.com
From: Nemesis on 14 Apr 2010 19:12 On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 21:13:42 +0100, Phil wrote: > Why no RAR equivalent ? You have rar, unrar and unrar-free Or , if you want to pay for it, you can get rar for linux at the same place you get rar for windows. Or was it a catch-bears comment ? > Installing things did NOT run as well as Windows. It WASN'T intuitive. > Not even close. > Maybe it's changed in the 4 years since I last tried it, but.... It has.
From: za kAT on 14 Apr 2010 19:39
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 21:26:28 +0000 (UTC), Bear Bottoms wrote: > za kAT <zakAT(a)johnstubbings.invalid> wrote in > news:4bc62421(a)news.X-Privat.org: > >> On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 21:11:43 +0100, Phil wrote: >> >>> On 11/04/2010 01:30, Bear Bottoms wrote: >>>> Mark Warner<mhwarner.inhibitions(a)gmail.com> wrote in >>>> news:82ciq0FbsmU2 @mid.individual.net: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> Just curious. How many here use desktop Linux on a regular basis? >>>>> Doesn't need to be your primary platform, but use it enough to >>>>> consider yourself a "user". >>>>> >>>> >>>> Oh my god....you are trying a feel good recovery now. You are saying >>>> "Dudes, help me out here...I'm getting my butt wiped." >>>> >>>> The fact is Mark that since 1991, Linux has not even garnered a solid >>>> 1% of the market share. That is a failure magnificant. >>>> >>> >>> Not really. >>> Are they going to go broke ? >>> No. >> >> Did you take the entire jar of stupid pills? > > Did you think I was going to leave some? No John I didn't. -- zakAT(a)pooh.the.cat - www.zakATsKopterChat.com |