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Re: [News] Even Hammered People Can Install Linux

  • Subject: Re: [News] Even Hammered People Can Install Linux
  • From: The Ghost In The Machine <ewill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 21:00:13 GMT
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net
  • References: <8889743.XTk3e4Lnxp@schestowitz.com> <1ww9qyb4m696u.dlg@funkenbusch.com> <oW9Zg.37020$r61.337@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk>
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In comp.os.linux.advocacy, 7
<website_has_email@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 wrote
on Tue, 17 Oct 2006 19:12:20 GMT
<oW9Zg.37020$r61.337@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Asstroturfer Erik Funkenbusch wrote on behalf of micoshaft corporation:
>
>> On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 08:34:37 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> 
>>> Funniest "Why I now use Ubuntu" story
>>> 
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>| "After a rather fine night out on the town, I came home in a
>>>| rather inebriated state. Put the live disc in, and recklessly
>>>| choose to install Ubuntu, and did so by wiping the entire hard
>>>| drive (previously XP). This sort of switch has sortof thrown me
>>>| in at the deep end, but I have no regrets and has to be one of
>>>| the best drunken decisions I have ever taken..."
>>> `----
>>> 
>>> http://ubuntuos.com/2006/10/funniest-why-i-now-use-ubuntu-story
>>> 
>>> The thread which follows is good Linux advocacy.
>> 
>> Actually, it sounds more like "Only Hammered people have the confidence to
>> install Linux".
>
>
> Or equally, it sounds like people install Ubuntu in order
> to wipe expee off their disks and have no regrets afterwards.
>

The main problem I have with this approach is that Microsoft
gets paid anyway.  Still, can't be much easier than that. :-)

-- 
#191, ewill3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Linux.  Because Windows' Blue Screen Of Death is just
way too frightening to novice users.

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