Re: [OT]: OS as religions (was: Raw Convertors)


"Wolfgang Weisselberg" <ozcvgtt02@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Chris H <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In message <078ok6-lgn.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Wolfgang
Robert Coe <bob@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Linux is a religion. Would a Catholic church replace its crucified
Jesus with
a Torah scroll?

Windows is a religion as well ... most people are born into it
and only know it and think everything should be of the hourglass.

No. It is not.

Because I say so. *stamps with his foot*

I'm oputting my foot down with a firm hand,.


Most people have it on their PC

because it's pre-installed..

Well who'd want the hassle of installing it themselves.


and use it because it is convenient

You meant to say:
- because it is more convenient for the moment to not take a few
hours (once!) to install something else.

Not much else available unfortunately .

- because they are locked into the system as their data is in
proprietary formats.
- because they already spent thousands of pounds for software.
- because they *think* their needs cannot be filled with
another operating system.

for some things that's true but not for home users.

and works.

For some values of "work". Of course, never having used something
else in earnest, they feel every wart of Windows is normal and
to be expected everywhere.

Like falling off a log.





If the common religion of England was druidism, people there
would be adherents the same way they adhere to christianism
these days: it's 'convenient', socially accepted and 'works'.
People with different beliefs are at least slightly suspicious,
and could well be members of a strange, dangerous? cult

Yeah, and I don;t want to loose my Christmas and Easter holidays just
because
I don;'t believe that God.



BTW one major supplier (might have been dell) said 40% of the Linux
powers net books were returned as users could not get them to work.

You *just* mislaid the URL you'd need to prove that, right?
Sure ...

it does make me wonder why they ask for Linux when they couldn;t use it.


... and it only shows that enough people want to *escape*
Windows that they order something, *anything*, else, blindly,
that promises to be different, that they hope is Windows without
the bugs and warts (... "everything should be of the hourglass").
Of course some fail, Linux is not a 'copy' of Windows[1]
Maybe these people want an Apple, but don't know it yet.

Well Apple do seem to be gaining ground especially in the portable laptop
market.



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