I am so lost with this program!!!!

[Graham Watkins]

Michael "TheZorch" Haney wrote:
> 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.
>
>   


Then again, there may just be people who aren't smart enough for this.  
If people don't have a recovery plan if it doesn't work out for them 
it's not for us to clean up after them.  This list is about advising 
people regarding *Ubuntu Linux*  not, repeat not, Windows.  Someone who 
doesn't know enough to re-install Windows possibly shouldn't be left 
alone with a Linux disk.

I think you should consider the possibility that the original post was 
some kind of troll.  It's not the first thread in recent times asking 
how to re-install Windows.   Redmond may be co-ordinating this.

-- 
Graham Watkins

"To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows
box, you just need to work on it."
SecurityFocus columnist Scott Granneman.