10-25-2004, 07:21 AM | #11 | ||
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I want my choice of Operating System. I don't like Windows, and I still can't understand why people have problems with that. I don't force Linux down your throat or my Mother's, and so I don't think I deserve to have Windows forced down mine. |
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10-25-2004, 07:40 AM | #12 | ||||
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Windows caters for all users, it Graphical interface is there to help people who dont know how to use a computer, learn. You seem to think that everything that is either: not free or not open source is dodgy, and thats what you tell us. Quote:
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So if you want Linux on your computer, then get a job and go and buy your own. *EDIT, hmmm I think we should stop there, its obvios that I ma right and this is going to seem to most people like an argument. [ 10-25-2004, 07:43 AM: Message edited by: Hivetyrant ] |
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10-25-2004, 08:28 AM | #13 |
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I actually had this discussion with lennon the other day, about free choice in things, you are both basically saying the same thing but not listening to the other person.
Lennon is saying Linux is good, but he has never said you have to use it, he just (strongly) reccomended it, and provided support for his argument which it looks like you interpreted as him forcefully telling you to use it. Jarrad, you see no need for change, as windows in good enough for what you want. And linux is good enough for Lennon, and maybe he wants to use it on his desktop pc, which might be nice for him, and i do feel that it being his computer he should be able to do what he wants with it. Personally, i'm happy with windows, for me it was free so that's irrelevent anyway [img]tongue.gif[/img] |
10-25-2004, 08:37 AM | #14 | |
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Oh and I do agree that Linux is good, im not against it, but im against him always blasting windows for petty things like "having a useless desktop" and so on. |
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10-25-2004, 08:40 AM | #15 | |
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Sorry Philip if we have destroyed your thread. Hmm, maybe there should be a thread for arguments about this... |
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10-25-2004, 08:41 AM | #16 |
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i like the desktop, and if you want my opinion, i trialled linux and i didn't like it, and i went back to xp.
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10-25-2004, 09:59 AM | #17 |
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*shudders* Sounds like a horrible experience. I hate it when that happens. Days like that is why I stopped taking network admin classes.
I'd switch to Linux myself if it wasn't for the fact that I regularly managed to crash it while using it at network administrator school. (not kidding, it'd last for about a week, then it'd crash so badly I had to format c: and reinstall...and then there is the time I had to reinstall thirteen times before the install finally worked completely) Windows seems to be everywhere, though. Every place I've worked at or gone to school at has it installed. While it works fine for me, XP in particular is a resource hog on my home system, and I would have liked to have the choice. But oh, well, I'm stuck with Windows for now. Maybe sometime I'll get up the guts to try Linux again. Just need to learn a bit more about it, I think.
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10-25-2004, 10:47 AM | #18 | |
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Windows is OK if you just want a desktop. If you want more you'll start see the differences. Like lennon said, the command line and configurability are great. There are so many choice and you can configure anything you want. Also it gives useful error messages and doesn't try to prevent you from things you might not want. Security is just as good as you want it to be in either linux or windows and in both you have to do something for it but the linux model is better. |
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10-25-2004, 10:58 AM | #20 |
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Thank you, Phillip. I'll definitely give it a try when and if I get a better computer than this one. I joke that Linux doesn't like me, but I probably did something I shouldn't have.
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