Re: Linux...Great if you have tons of free time and a tolerance for unstable APPLICATIONS.

From: Kier (vallon_at_tiscali.co.uk)
Date: 06/23/05 

Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 23:14:29 +0100

On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 19:04:10 +0100, win_not_lin wrote:

> Linønut wrote:
>> win_not_lin poked his little head through the XP firewall and said:
>>
>>
>>>Linønut wrote:
>>>
>>>>No, your research ability sucks. But you probably got lying down pat.
>>>
>>>Wow - Linux is so easy to use! To find out if your i845 is supported in
>>>X11, all you gotta do is search old Redhat mailing lists and grep the
>>>kernel source!
>>
>>
>> No you don't. That's just the path I took, using Google. Try Google
>> some time.
>>
>>
>>>Do you have any idea how bad Linux looks when you come back with answers
>>>like this?
>>
>>
>> It was easy. Yet you couldn't do it. Do you have any idea how bad you
>> look now?
>
> Yep, that's right - blame me and not your POS OS. The fact is, I do not
> want to grep kernel source code, get it? I just want my video hardware -
> whatever it is - to work to its fullest potential with as little fuss as
> possible. It's easy in Windows. In Linux, you have to STFW just to get a
> usable desktop.

Wrong. In most cases, you just have to install it. And it works.

>
>> Expand your mind. Come join the Penguin. Throw away your crutches.
>
> Linux is a two-bit Unix clone that makes simple tasks excrutiatingly
> difficult to accomplish. Windows is sheer bliss in comparison.

That's funny, I don't seem to be having trouble doing simple tasks, or
indeed, more demanding ones, on my Linux boxen. And if you consider
Windows so heavenly, why are you bothering us?

(Fup2COLA) 

-- 
Kier