Re: Linux is Driving me $#@!!!! nutz!!!

Bill Schwab <bschwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Cydrome Leader wrote:
>> In rec.crafts.metalworking Gunner <gunner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>>Ok..for all you Linux junkies...this has been driving me nuts for
>>>months and months and ... well you get the idea.
>>>Originally..I thought this issue was hardware....but now...
>>
>>
>> What are you trying to do that justifies all the time wasted on trying to
>> run anything but windows?
>
> There are many reasons to avoid Microsoft. It can be as simple as
> having and old computer to view drawings in a shop (no reason to pay
> $100-200 for that simple task) to running servers where Linux is faster,

$200 for what?

> more stable, more secure, and less subject to the whim of a company that
> churns the market at every opportunity and builds eye candy at the

What? I still run DOS apps just fine. Name 5 eye candies from microsoft.

> expense of fixing defects and cleaning up their designs. Don't even get
> me stated about what they did with the Pen Windows API in the late 90's
> - in short, they had documented functions to be supported on Win32 for
> all time, and then yanked them w/o warning. With the cross-posts to a

That might have to do with how tablets and pen computing died long ago.

> survivalism group, I can also assume that having the source code to the
> OS is of interest, and I certainly won't argue with that.
>
> Bill
.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: fedora-list Digest, Vol 16, Issue 372
    ... To be honest we all use guis (eye candy). ... by the market place eventually; users will decide with their feet and ... I went to Linux to learn and don't mind ... but not a cutting edge experiment. ...
    (Fedora)
  • Re: XP is garbage
    ... >So you refuse to give up the eye candy, yet you complain when it slows ... its the GUI.) ... When you take away the"eye candy" GUI, linux picks up ...
    (sci.electronics.design)
  • Re: Mac OSX sucks big time
    ... worrying like a bunch of oily squid about the eye candy which does ... drinking less coffee and writing proper error ... You mean like Linux does? ... GNOME didn't bother giving me an error message to explain why it ...
    (comp.sys.mac.system)
  • Re: how do you make linux gui look nicer?
    ... > A big reason I use Linux is because it looks so much BETTER than Windows. ... > menus or system menus available anywhere on the screen, ... Eye candy or Brain candy ...
    (alt.os.linux)