Why I no Longer Use Windows 7.

On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 11:24:54 +0200, Alias wrote:

Linux on the desktop has already gone far and is growing. Live with it
and get the **** over it.

They can't get "the **** over it" -- that's why they spew 24/7 on COLA
about an OS that is supposedly "inconsequential." Their actions speak much
louder than their lying words.

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On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 11:16:34 +0200, Alias wrote:

Translation: the "Big Steel" has just lost the argument but his ego
won't let him admit it.

The Big Stool doesn't have enough intelligence to have an ego. He spews
mindlessly on demand, merely parroting his fellow WinTrolls. He is only
noteworthy for his innate instinct to commit acts of extreme stupidity.

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On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 11:21:41 +0200, Alias wrote:

On 10/25/2010 05:24 AM, RonB wrote:
On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 19:33:33 -0700, Frank wrote:

Alright sheep-****er...tell us all what you use that toy POS linux for
and what you use Windows 7 for.

He probably uses Windows 7 to attract viruses. He uses Linux to destroy
them.


I use Windows 7 for gaming. I use Linux for everything else.

That works too. As long as you can limit Windows' access to the Internet
it will probably be okay-ish.

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RonB
Registered Linux User #498581
CentOS 5.5 or VectorLinux Deluxe 6.0

On 10/25/2010 11:52 AM, RonB wrote:
On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 11:24:54 +0200, Alias wrote:

Linux on the desktop has already gone far and is growing. Live with it
and get the **** over it.

They can't get "the **** over it" -- that's why they spew 24/7 on COLA
about an OS that is supposedly "inconsequential." Their actions speak much
louder than their lying words.


Ballmer has appointed an anti Linux czar. If he's worried, you know his
mindless follower are and for good reason!

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Alias

On 10/25/2010 11:59 AM, RonB wrote:
On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 11:21:41 +0200, Alias wrote:

On 10/25/2010 05:24 AM, RonB wrote:
On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 19:33:33 -0700, Frank wrote:

Alright sheep-****er...tell us all what you use that toy POS linux for
and what you use Windows 7 for.

He probably uses Windows 7 to attract viruses. He uses Linux to destroy
them.


I use Windows 7 for gaming. I use Linux for everything else.

That works too. As long as you can limit Windows' access to the Internet
it will probably be okay-ish.


It only is allowed on line for updates.

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Alias

On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 11:59:41 +0200, Alias wrote:

On 10/25/2010 11:52 AM, RonB wrote:
On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 11:24:54 +0200, Alias wrote:

Linux on the desktop has already gone far and is growing. Live with it
and get the **** over it.

They can't get "the **** over it" -- that's why they spew 24/7 on COLA
about an OS that is supposedly "inconsequential." Their actions speak
much louder than their lying words.


Ballmer has appointed an anti Linux czar. If he's worried, you know his
mindless follower are and for good reason!

Microsoft is becoming inconsequential. It still has desktops, and the
office suite and... that's about it, except for the XBox which, according
to different sources is either making gobs of money or never will pay for
its original R&D. I don't know, I'm not a game player. Microsoft is a has-
been in the Mobile phone market. They're a "never will be" in the Internet
search market -- Bing is just another money drain. Silverlight and
whatever that PDF "killer" they came out with a few years ago are both
jokes. Their attempts at entering the consumer gadget market have been
anemic. They're just now responding to Google DOCS and simultaneously
lashing out at OpenOffice -- which is ironically is supposedly "not a
threat." Their Windows 7 tablets are doomed to fail... again, as their
past tablets have failed. They're borrowing large sums of money to pay
higher dividends in the vain hope that they can shore up their stock
prices. Although they managed to beat back the original Linux netbooks, it
came at the high cost of lower margins. Their Windows "OS security" is
still an oxymoron, and, unless they go Apple's route and base their newest
OS on BSD UNIX, it will always be a joke. Meanwhile their world continues
to shrink -- Microsoft releases and announcements used to be the reason
the IT Press corps existed -- now they hardly make a ripple. About the
only growth industry Microsoft is entering into is Patent Trolling.
They're on the decline.

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RonB
Registered Linux User #498581
CentOS 5.5 or VectorLinux Deluxe 6.0

RonB pulled this Usenet face plant:

On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 11:59:41 +0200, Alias wrote:

Ballmer has appointed an anti Linux czar. If he's worried, you know his
mindless follower are and for good reason!

Microsoft is becoming inconsequential. It still has desktops, and the
office suite and... that's about it, except for the XBox which...

As much as Microsoft bugs me, they are far from inconsequential, even
ignoring Windows (and MS Office and the "apps" that can be written with it).

I view them as a kind of vertical vendor, just another one on a crowded
playing field. Many big businesses buy into the "Microsoft stack".

It's a fairly legitimate business, and I wish Microsoft would stick to that,
rather than gavaging their OS down people's throats.

They're on the decline.

Not fast enough.

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RonB formulated on Sunday :
On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 18:47:35 -0600, Tom Shelton wrote:

Hmmm.... I a quick google search shows lots of companies selling
laptops with linux pre-installed... What's so difficult?

Finding a place you can drive to that afternoon and pick one up. Let's
really be purposely obtuse here. Oh, you're already are doing that.

No, I'm not being purposely obtuse. I'm trying to understand why you
consider linux laptops hard to get - when I can find them for sale
online in about 15 seconds. What your really saying is that it's hard
to find a brick and morter location that sells them, and I would agree
with that. But, that's not the same thing as them being hard to get.

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On 2010-10-24, Frank wrote:
On 10/24/2010 1:29 PM, Glenn Hall wrote:
On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 21:50:52 +0200, Clogwog wrote:


In short: A happy windows user, like 90% of desktop computer users
worldwide!

Happy because they are ignorant and don't know any better.

Is that the best you can come up with? So you think over 90% of computer
users, worldwide are ignorant? And most of the very successful

Sure. Computing is supposed to be a "geeky" and "technical" thing.

Knowing anything about it is supposed to SCARE people.

So the idea that you might have a wider view of things because you've
actually gone out and "test driven" other products is fairly alien. You
just take it for granted that the Microsoft experience is all that you can
ever hope for.

You are frightened by the Lemming FUD brigade into thinking that you
can ever only use MS Office. Perhaps you've been frightened enough by them
into thinking that you can only use IE too.

mega-corporations use Windows...are they too ignorant?

Mega-corporations don't use Windows for heavy lifting.

They use Windows for "being compatable" and desktop work where the cost
of an individual user being down for days with a virus is inconsequential.

[deletia]

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On 2010-10-24, Agent_C wrote:
On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 05:42:24 +0000 (UTC), Robin T Cockslee
wrote:

Linux just does everything I need[...]

Your needs must be very rudimentary.

That's true of a lot of people actually.

Although what's still unaddressed is just what am I supposed to be
missing exactly? I've got copies of Windows 7 and Snow Leopard and no
interest in running either one of them. Linux simply does not look bad
next to them (despite all the lies to the contrary).

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Glenn Hall schreef:

Snip

Take mini-dumps for
example. How on earth is an average person going to even begin to
figure out what he needs to download from Microsoft, just to
decode the minidump?

There' a simple tool for that purpose.

You can view Windows mini-dumps with Blue Screen View. it's freeware.
(Windows XP/Vista/Win7) BlueScreenView can read the MiniDump files of
both 32-bit and x64 systems.

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html

BlueScreenView is a small (48 kb), freeware and portable application
that scans all of the minidump files that are created when Windows
experiences a “Blue Screen of Death”. It will display the information
about all the crashes in one table with the minidump filename, the time
and date of the crash, basic information about the crash (as in the BSOD
message) and the driver or module that possibly caused the crash.

BlueScreenView doesn't require any installation process or additional
dll files. In order to start using it, simply run the executable file -
BlueScreenView.exe.It automatically scans your MiniDump folder and
display all crash details in the upper pane.

regards,

Zanqeutil

An Old Friend stated in post lid on
10/24/10 11:15 PM:

On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 20:10:41 -0700, Snit wrote:

An Old Friend stated in post lid
on 10/24/10 3:01 PM:

On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 12:21:37 -0400, One Shot - One Kill wrote:

I never knew that only republicans buy computers with Windows
preloaded.

I've personally seen a trend (highly unscientific, as it's just my
friends on Facebook and MySpace) towards Republicans buying more Apple
computers. They don't want to be seen as supporting the liberal-slanted
MSNBC cable channel with their purchase of Windows.

Do they know how closely tied Gore is to Apple?

Probably not. He doesn't call himself "Apple Gore" (although it would be
punny).

Yes, it would.


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Alias wrote:
On 10/25/2010 05:22 AM, Quantum Leaper wrote:
Alias wrote:
On 10/24/2010 06:06 PM, Quantum Leaper wrote:
Alias wrote:
On 10/24/2010 04:17 PM, Quantum Leaper wrote:
I am glad you like Linux but most people don't upgrade the OS
other than getting a new Computer.

I assume you mean most people in the USA. Here in Spain, most
people buy computers to order unless it's a laptop and I know
many people who own laptops and the first thing they did was nuke
Windows and install Linux.
If that was the truth, then way does Linux have less then 5% of
the desktops?



Let's see, how did you come up with that figure? Supposedly, there
are about 1 billion computers on line in the world which would mean,
according to your figures, that there a 50 million Linux users. Fact
is, however, that no one knows how many Linux installs there are
because Linux doesn't need to be activated or become "genuine" and
there are no store receipts to count like there is with Windows. I
suspect if you take the stats of the backwards USA out of the
picture, the user share for Linux would be much higher. After all,
only the USA could have such ignorant, biased bigots running for
congress like there are today. Those same supporters of Beck,
Limbaugh, Palin, O'Donnell and Rand Paul don't know any better than
to order a computer from Best Buy with Windows preloaded.


I was being nice when I said 5%, most websites say less then 1%.
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/1...-Linux-Is-Dead

Slashdot wasn't the only one reporting... You can spin the data
anyway you want but Linux on the desktop isn't going far, unlike in
the server room.

Linux on the desktop has already gone far and is growing. Live with it
and get the **** over it.


I gave you where I got my info, now how about you showing where you got
your numbers, if you can?
I agree Linux is growing in the backroom but not on the desktop, advocates
have been saying this is the Year of Desktop Linux, then when the year
ends, it now where to be seen.
One last thing, I would love to see Linux on everyone desktop, I use it
for my data server, in fact I just got a 'new computer' that will make a
nice upgrade from my old one.

RonB wrote:
On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 11:24:54 +0200, Alias wrote:

Linux on the desktop has already gone far and is growing. Live with
it and get the **** over it.

They can't get "the **** over it" -- that's why they spew 24/7 on COLA
about an OS that is supposedly "inconsequential." Their actions speak
much louder than their lying words.


At least I gave him the website where I got my data from, Alias is the one
spew unsupported numbers around. I beleive in a simple thing use what make
you happy, if that Windows, Linux, Mac or a CP/M machine that fine by me.

On 25/10/2010 10:59 AM, RonB wrote:
On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 11:21:41 +0200, Alias wrote:

On 10/25/2010 05:24 AM, RonB wrote:
On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 19:33:33 -0700, Frank wrote:

Alright sheep-****er...tell us all what you use that toy POS linux for
and what you use Windows 7 for.

He probably uses Windows 7 to attract viruses. He uses Linux to destroy
them.


I use Windows 7 for gaming. I use Linux for everything else.

That works too. As long as you can limit Windows' access to the Internet
it will probably be okay-ish.



Thicko. Just because you're an amateur is no excuse to spread FUD. Put
your own house in order first. Two of many...


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