[xubuntu-users] Xubuntu - my favourite

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Peter Flynn <peter at silmaril.ie> wrote:
> On 09/13/2013 07:25 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>> On Thu, 2013-09-12 at 19:08 -0400, Jason Smith wrote:
>>> For years, like most of you, I had been using Windows
>>
>> Would be interesting to know, if most Xubuntu users or at least most
>> subscribed to this list come from Windows. I do not come from Windows, I
>> switched from the Atari ST to Linux. Not to Ubuntu, since Ubuntu didn't
>> exist in 2003, but there already where advertisements for Ubuntu.
>
> I have used Windows (and DOS before it), but I have never *had* to use
> Windows, fortunately. The little I have seen of it is enough to make me
> run screaming.
>
> ///Peter

For a while, just before retiring, I taught programming (*ahem*
computer science) at a local university, up to the kernel-hacking
level.  I had some fun with it.  I would comment that all OS-en had at
least one stand-out feature, a truly strong point.  Just once, a
student asked what the strong point of Windows was.  Little did he
know I'd been fishing for that question all along.  Finally!!  The
answer, of course, without a pause, dead-pan, was "solitaire".  I
could go on at some length about the joys of Spider, for instance, and
you'd never know for sure how my tongue and cheek were aligned.

-- 
Kevin O'Gorman

programmer, n. an organism that transmutes caffeine into software.
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