Age-old topic: Windows-Explorer lookalike, where the firetruck is it?

[Doug]

On 11/04/2010 09:45 PM, Mark wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Basil Chupin<blchupin at iinet.net.au>  wrote:
>    
>> Ah, there's nothing like an open mind.....just simply nothing better....
>>
>>      
> Make up your mind, please - is it nothing or is it better or is it
> nothing better?
>
> Or did you mean that an open mind is like better?
>
> Uh oh, I'm confusing myself now....
>
> Mark
>    
So far, everyone has disparaged the OP, but I would bet almost anything 
that at
least 50% of the readers of--and posters to--this list use either XP or 
7 every
so often, as do I.  Certainly Windows has problems--like its inscrutable 
directory
structure, that you can't readily access either from the GUI or the 
CLI--in either
event, it's a bitch to find and/or move things you'd like to.  If it 
weren't for this
idiosyncrasy, which they seem to have created since Win 98, the system 
wouldn't
be bad at all.  (I don't know what happened between '98 and XP. I 
skipped all the
in-between stuff.)  Oh, you mention viri?  If Linux were as popular as 
XP and 7,
you'd have to fight off the virus-mongers just like those folks do!  Oh, 
you have
to _pay_ for it?  Well I bet a lot of you paid for RedHat and/or SuSE 
back in the
day!  Like I did!

Yes, it's nice to have a system you can do some repairs on, when the 
time comes,
and I do appreciate that.  I'm even learning some Unix/Linux Bash 
manipulation.
(Yes, it's about time!)

It's time to bury the hatchet, guys, and not, I hope, in me!  To each 
his own, as
the song goes.

--doug


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