Win98 -- all kidding aside

[Jimmy Montague]

On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 21:55 -0700, Pastor JW wrote:
> On Friday 25 July 2008 01:58:23 am Mario Spinthiras wrote:
> > I'm sure there are reasons to run Microsoft products , I just haven't been
> > able to think of any for the past 15 years :)
> 
> I thought I had found one a couple years ago but I was wrong,  merely a case 
> of believing windoze couldn't possibly be as bad as everybody said it was.  
> In truth, it was even worse.
> 
> 
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Win98 had its good features -- and some bad ones. I remember when I
first installed Win98, it was able to access floppy drives with no help
from me at all. As a home user, the worst problem I had with my new
Win98 system was that I couldn't shut it off.

By contrast, I've had Ubuntu in this box for two weeks, now, and I'm
still trying to make it handle my floppy drive correctly. That any
flavor of Linux should be unable to handle floppies correctly, out of
the box, after the OS has been nearly 20 years in development speaks
volumes about the quality of the Linux development process. Those
enraged by that statement may get their ire cooled somewhat by my
admission that, also unlike Win98, Ubuntu is easy to shut off.