On 2009-01-02, Ian Hilliard <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> claimed:
> Hadron wrote:
>
>> Sinister Midget <fardblossom@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>> He'll be able to buy a better computer, too, with the money he's not
>>> tossing into the Windows black hole. He still won't need bleeding edge
>>> hardware. But he'll have more disposable income to get *better*
>>> hardware if he chooses.
>>
>> And yet to all intents and purposes there is little if any price
>> difference.
>
> ...until you add on the cost of all the stuff that is needed to make a
> Windows box safe to use, i.e. Virus Scanner, Spyware Scanner, firewall,
> etc... This of course assumes that you don't want to buy MS Office and pay
> a fortune for that.
Hadrone is "advocating linux" again I see.
With linux I get:
* office products (multiple to choose from)
* web browsers (multiple to choose from)
* media players (multiple to choose from)
* graphics packages (multiple to choose from)
* web servers (if I want - more than one)
* ftp servers (if I want - more than one)
* media rippers and burners (multiple to choose from)
* PDA tools (more than one way to skin that cat)
* SIP clients (multiple to choose from)
* bitorrent clinets (multiple to choose from)
* email clients (multiple to choose from)
* games (multiple to choose from in more than one category)
* a powerful commandline (more than one choice there)
* powerful commandline editors (multiple to choose from)
* webcam tools (multiple to choose from)
* digital camera tools (multiple to choose from)
* a package manager that puts thousands of free programs a click away
* a peppy computer
With Windwoes I could get (if I hated myself enough to use it):
* notepad (1 each)
* wordpad (maybe, 1 each)
* web browser (1 each, but with multiple exploitable bugs)
* a media player (1 each, that refuses to play some media)
* paint (1 each)
* an email client (1 each, similar quality to the lone web browser)
* games (1 each: hearts, solitaire, freecell, minesweeper, etc)
* an intentionally crippled commandline (nothing you can do about it)
* gazillions of crappy programs that you can buy for too much to get
too little
* a computer that could be out-paced by a snail in a snow storm
Gosh! One of those lists is longer than the other, and one offers more
choices, and one has more you can do with it out of the box and/or with
free downloads accomplished within a few minutes. The surprise (to
dolts like Quink) is that the lists with those 3 attributes happen to
all be the same one: linux.
But Quack doesn't use linux, so it's understandable that he doesn't
know these things. He knows just enough to toss some words around, and
not enough to prevent proving himself to be singularly unqualified to
comment on it at all. But that won't stop him because he's a "kernel
hacker" and "swapfile expert".
--
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
--Elvis Presley
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