Windows and linux (Was: Well, Windows is back on the disk.)

[Sasha Tsykin]

J.Markoll wrote:

> ulrich steffens a écrit :
>
>> Am Montag, den 16.01.2006, 19:44 +0800 schrieb Michael Richter:
>>
>>> Well, once I get my bearings -- if ever I do -- I will likely start
>>> writing software for it.  Now?  None, of course.  This is the part of
>>> the cycle called "evaluation".
>>
>
>>>> If a company that develops a non free software crashes, and the format
>>>> of your documents is not known by open applications, your work is 
>>>> lost.
>>>
>>> And yet I can count the number of lost documents I've had since about
>>> 1985 on one hand.
>>
>
>>>> Solution: install with  a dual boot, and
>>>> forget the hard life ?
>>>
>>> That is, in fact, the solution I adopted.
>>
>> i still don't get the point in trying ubuntu (linux), which has it's
>> finding out it doesn't suit your needs
>> and then telling us that linux is not ready at all, because YOU had a
>> bad experience. did i miss something?
>
> Yes you missed a bunch.
>
>> i mean you only had a bad experience with ONE system, pretty lame then
>> to coming up with such prediction.
>
> I left above just what is truly important to keep, imho. For example:
>
>>> Am Montag, den 16.01.2006, 19:44 +0800 schrieb Michael Richter:
>>>
>>>> This is the part of the cycle called "evaluation".
>>>
>
>> and a counterexperience:
>> a friend of mine nagged me for weeks that he couldnt get sound working
>> on hin win98-machine. i ended up saying 'win sucks, try ubuntu'. he
>> installed 5.04, sound works.
>
> There are billions materials coming from hundred manufactories, and 
> the bug
> number one is this one (watch the screenshot, and click on it to
> read further):
> http://meets.mondelibre.org/dotclear/?2006/01/03/15-ordinateurs-plus-libres 
>
>
>> ulrich
>
> Best greetings, Joyce Markoll.
>
>
Everybody who believes that linux is perfect should take a look at this 
site and come back to reality. https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bug/1/

There's a reason guys ;)