Ubuntu blues

[Christian Bjälevik]

Martin Alderson wrote:
> [I do apolgize for this rant but it needs to get off my chest.]
> 
> Please do not say Windows is not 'working'. I use it as my primary
> desktop, because it:
> 
> a) Feels more familiar.
> b) Very stable (compared to GNOME, which has various crashes of
> nautilus multiple times a week).
> c) Allows me to run Windows Applications (mainly Visual Studio) and
> games (big issue here)
> d) Runs big opensource apps _better_ than Linux (eg: Firefox 1.0 took
> me about 45 seconds to install on Windows, took me about half an hour
> reading manuals and mailing lists to work out what the hell I should
> be doing with it, also OpenOffice works a lot better on Windows than
> Linux when it comes to printing and updating it).
> 
> I could go on. I don't like Microsoft as a company, and I would
> certainly choose Linux w/ Wine over Windows 98 anyday. But I think
> saying Windows doesn't work is totally irrational and dated, because
> it really works very well as long as you use Firefox (or similar). I
> agree that IE is a pile of shit, though.
> 
> 
> On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 01:34:00 +0100, Christian Bjälevik
> <nafallo at magicalforest.se> wrote:
> 
>>Martin Alderson wrote:
>>
>>>For gods sake, it's not a damn religion. It's an operating system - a
>>>means to an end.
>>>
>>>Morales should not be 'opensource software for desktop'. It should be
>>>things like violence, racism, equality etc etc etc.
>>
>>You said it yourself :-). A working computer will bring less violence
>>and an open-sourced OS and the right integration in the process of the
>>like will help them learn to coop with ppl from all over the world,
>>preventing racism, and equality, as in everyone should have the right to
>>make programs work as they like, use them for free and such things.

a) I've used linux for some years. A bashprompt is familiar. Ofcourse 
what you're using is familiar to you :-P.
b) ...and puts up a button if you want to restart it :-). My girl had XP 
on her PC when she got it. She got freakin' bluescreens as soon as she 
started OE.
c) See other answers in this thread.
d) Both ff and OOo was installed by ubuntu-desktop. You should click on 
the icon and then type an address in the space allocated for that. Then 
you should click on the nice Go button :-). Printing as in printer? 
Updating as in synaptics?

Sorry, but I can't find anything making windows even close to have the 
working status in my world. I throw that piece of crap out long ago :-). 
Can't see a reason why I should pay those money for something that needs 
security updates at day one after a release :-P.

Sincererly
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