Re: multifunction printer/scanner nuisance
From: markzoom (markzoom_at_digiverse.net)
Date: 10/31/04
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Date: 31 Oct 2004 09:04:43 -0800
Peter Köhlmann <Peter.Koehlmann@t-online.de> wrote in message news:<cm2aot$hh2$00$1@news.t-online.com>...
> begin markzoom wrote:
>
> > Peter Köhlmann <Peter.Koehlmann@t-online.de> wrote in message
>
> < snip >
>
> >> Sure he is. He is also the same guy constantly redefining what a "newbie"
> >> is. According to him, it is *always* someone unfamiliar with any sensible
> >> way of computing.
> >
> > I would say most newbies *to Linux* are windows users hoping to have a
> > safer and faster computer. I can definately say that windows is far
> > more user friendly but hugely crap in other ways.
> >
>
> "more user friendly" in what way? Simply repeating this garbage does not
> make it any more true.
You don't need to use a "console" and know what to type in it, for
starters.
> My wife for example knows next to nothing about computers or how to use
> them. But she is more comfortable using linux than windows to do her email,
> browse the web or do some text-editing. She switches between one of my
> linux boxen or one of the windows boxen of the children (until I install
> her own computer, which will run linux), and she definately has no problems
> using linux
Well ho-ha, she has her own personal system admin to deal with all the
crap of setting it up, installing applications, hardware, peripherals,
dealing with problems etc.etc.etc.
>
> You repeat ad nauseum always the same trash, namely "windows is more user
> friendly", "windows has *always* the drivers" (which is a bald lie)
You obviously haven't been in a computer shop for a long time.
> and
> "you are way too stupid to even try a cmd-line
WTF is a cmd-line?
A command line is for system admins and software hobbyists, not the
vast majority of modern home users.
> even when doing it *one*
> time to run a config script" (actually, you word it differently, but that
> is the true meaning)
If the OS worked properly, ordinary home users would NEVER have to use
a console. But hey, you have a vested interest in OSs staying crap,
because you'd be out of work.
> In other words: You are a dumb twit
And you are a festering twat who thinks trying to get crap software to
work is everybody's hobby.
M.K.
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