Re: Why I dumped Linux and went back to Windows.
From: No One (noone_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 05/11/04
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Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 13:06:50 GMT
Stinky Weaselteats wrote:
> Sowcrates wrote:
>
> > Dream on. That's exactly what Linux advocates were preaching 5 years
> > ago,
> > and still today it seems. Linux will never become a mainstream
> > desktop
> > alternative. Now, server, that's another topic. I am talking
> > DESKTOP. If Linux ever does gain a sudden market share on the
> > desktop, it won't be by user choice, it will be pre-loaded at the
> > Wallmart (is this how those "Asian
> > hordes" will be getting their Linux systems?). Most home users will
> > then
> > wipe it away and load Windows XP.
>
> Probably not. Have you ever dealt with the average home user?
> They need techs to set up digital cameras for them. Booting from a
> floppy and wiping a drive and loading XP woulds be *way* beyond the
> capabilities of the average winblows luzer.
>
> > Please don't misconstrue my
> > statements to
> > mean that I am bashing Linux or that I don't have respect for it. I
> > am just
> > speaking facts and what in my opinion I believe to be reality. Back
> > in its day, even OS/2 was more useable on the desktop than Linux.
> >
> OS/2 was teh bomb :)
> My first real OS was Deskmate by Tandy...
> I had a screaming fast 60mb HDD!!!
Tandy Deskmate was just a text graphic shell over DOS. Some Tandy's did
some with it in ROM though, so it would boot "without DOS," which was
nonsense since it had DOS underneath. That system lasted what, a year??
Tandy also had a Windows card for the 1200 TD. Only knew of one person who
had it. I guess they were trying to emulate Apple with the stuff in
firmware. The Tandy line was basically a PC Jr clone, but IBM killed that
line when it threatened their "grown up" PC sales.
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