Re: Why Windows is Easier than Linux For An End User, Especially for Multimedia work.

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Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 01:53:25 +0100

The Ghost In The Machine wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Jose Maria Lopez Hernandez
> <jkerouac@bgsec.com>
> wrote
> on Mon, 17 Jan 2005 13:58:27 +0100
> <yYOGd.212752$r4.12147834@news-reader.eresmas.com>:
>
>>Laurence Payne wrote:
>>
>>>Linux provides excellent glasses, in any material, size and colour you
>>>like. But you have to provide your own string.
>>
>>There is the fun of using Linux. You can make your own string, something
>>you can't do in other Operating Systems, but it has the same or more
>>glasses than Windows or MacOSX.
>>
>>(this seems like an encrypted conversation from a submarine)
>>
>
>
> Aren't analogies fun? :-)
>
> Windows: One (1) size fits all Microsoft Plastic Tumbler, with hole.
> One (1) Microsoft String(tm).
>
> Note that one needs Microsoft Pitcher to make maximum use
> of the Microsoft Plastic Tumbler, as well as a third-party
> HolePlugger if one wants to actually use it for drinking.
> Communications are effected by attaching the String to
> the Microsoft Plastic Tumbler using a Microsoft String
> To Plastic Tumbler Attachment Device (patent pending).
> While the Microsoft String To Plastic Tumbler Attachment
> Device can be used for drinking, a slow leak may require
> one to clean up afterwards using Microsoft Pre-Moistened
> Towelette Units. (Microsoft String will swell up, plugging
> the leak, if one uses Microsoft Powdered Drink Solution
> in Microsoft Water.)
>
> Linux: See below.
>
> Depending on what one actually wants to do, one can:
>
> [1] Take sand and fabricate one's own glass, and make one's
> own twine. This is probably the toughest.
>
> [2] Take glass chips and fabricate one's own glass.
>
> [3] Take glass or plastic pieces and put together a good, solid
> drinking utensil, serving utensil, jug, drum, or tank.
>
> [4] Take a plastic cone and some Standard String and assemble
> a multiway "phone" network (with a knot in the middle
> of the string that other strings can attach to).
>
> [5] Squeeze oranges to make a refreshing drink.
>
> :-)

Very fun and imaginative analogies. I enjoyed them :-)

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