I am so lost with this program!!!!

[Michael "TheZorch" Haney]

Pastor JW wrote:
> I'm sorry but I can't understand the question.  Let's see, the name of this 
> list is "ubuntu-users", and its email address 
> is "ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com" and you want to put housing materials back 
> onto your system?   Are you a contractor?  The wife is a whiz at making 
> curtains, did 'em for the church!  Once you get your windows replaced, 
> perhaps give her a call with the measurements and she'll give you a good deal 
> on curtains to go with 'em.  
Its comments like this which perpetuates the widely accepted notion that 
Linux users are fanboys who are not very friendly towards newbies.  Such 
comments have no place what so ever in a forum for a Linux distro which 
has as its main philosophy being on "community".   Anyone who makes 
comments like these is not a part of our community, they are a 
disruptive element who is undermining the very foundation upon which 
Ubuntu stands firmly upon. 

These is no place for this kind of behavior here, it is our 
responsibility as Ubuntu users to be a shining beacon of light to those 
who brave the turbulent waters of switching from Windows to Linux.   Its 
not an easy switch, it comes with sacrifice, but the overall benefits 
and gains which come from switching platforms is more than worth it.  We 
need to give people an incentive to continue on this journey, and making 
comments like this only discourages them. 

Linux is at a historic crossroads right now, never before has the OS 
come so close to being accepted in the mainstream than it has right 
now.  Last year nobody would have ever guessed that desktop PCs and 
laptops would be sold with distros of Linux pre-installed, nor did 
anyone ever guess that Ubuntu would be one of them.  Today, Linux is 
everywhere, its in our cellphones, set top boxes, game consoles, and its 
in Ultra-Mobile PCs which are all the rage these days.  Not only that, 
but many manufacturers are selling computers that boot in 15 seconds to 
a Linux desktop for browsing the web and checking email without even 
loading the OS on the hard drive.  Linux is everywhere!  But, despite 
all of these advances the OS still hasn't captured the hearts and minds 
of the average computer user.  MS Windows still dominates, but that is 
changing and in order for us to make full mainstream acceptance of Linux 
a reality we must work together.

Comments like the one seen above only works against us.

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