Verily I say unto thee, that Kelsey Bjarnason spake thusly:
> On Wed, 09 May 2007 03:09:46 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> The Tale of the Accidental Upgrade - An experiment with Linux goes horribly
>> right.
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>> | That may seem a silly statement, but I have taught people to use MS
>> | Windows over the years, and to a large degree it is not that it is
>> | easy to use, it is that people are trained in using it, with all
>> | of its various user interface interactions. KDE is just as easy,
>> | if not easier, even if it is different in some ways.
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> This, of course, is what most of the Wintrolls overlook: it's not that
> Windows is easier; it's not. It is simply _familiar_. Not the same thing
> at all.
There's certainly nothing easy about running Windows, except for the
ease with which it can be irrecoverably broken.
For all the anti-virus, ant-spyware, defragmentation, registry repair,
and other system repair tools I had to buy to keep Windows from
imploding, I *still* found the only method that actually worked was
periodic disk imaging. I.e. make a change, back up, make another change,
back up. It was like playing a really tough game with no cheat modes,
and you have to keep hitting the "quicksave" button before you die.
I've never seen such a fragile OS as Windows (pretty much any version).
I still remember the day I had to WipNReinstall Windows because the DVD
drive died. No that is not a lie nor an exaggeration, Windows would not
boot at all because the DVD was dead ... even after removing the drive.
It wouldn't even boot into safe mode.
So yeah, I was familiar with Windows alright ... far too familiar.
That's why I'm using Linux.
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K.
http://slated.org
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| 'Also, no one calls it PCI-X even though that's the "official "
| shortening of the much more commonly used "PCI Express".'
| - Hardon Quirk, COLA's resident "genius".
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