I need help dissuading my dad.

[Fett101]

In the first post, you say "He already has Linux in his computer", so you easily counter your own argument.

[Laukev7]

What I should have specified is that he may have it in his computer, but he hardly ever uses it.

Actually, what I meant to say is that since Microsoft has a monopoly, it is very hard to adopt another platform because of the relatively few choices of applications.

[ July 18, 2003: Message edited by: Laukev7 ]

[mobrien_12]

quote:Originally posted by Fett101:
You could always realize that he's a grown man and has the ability to make decisions for himself.  

A grown man who wants to use XP but not pay for it.

[ July 18, 2003: Message edited by: M. O'Brien ]

[Laukev7]

quote: A grown man who wants to use XP but not pay for it.

! How true!

He doesn't seem so about keen trying it, though (at least for now). It crashed for the fifth time the first week I installed it. Windows 2000 only crashed once the whole time I used it (which is about three months).

Edit: Sixth time, now.

Edit: Make it seven.

[ July 19, 2003: Message edited by: Laukev7 ]

[Laukev7]

EIGHTH TIME IN LESS THAN A WEEK!!! It just crashed on me an instant ago, when I was playing my favourite game, and I lost my savegames!    :mad:  

UN-F***ING-BE-LIE-VA-BLE! And that system crashed only once in Windows 2000! Even Windows 98 was stable compared to this!

What kind of utter piece of s**t is that??? The last time I had so many crashes was 5 years ago with Windows 98 and ny crappy 233 Pentium 2!

It's been such a long time I've been using alternative OSes like BeOS and FreeBSD regularly that I had forgotten how unstable and buggy Windows is.

I think I've used that dodgy XPOS long enough to realise how much it SUCKS. I guess you were right, then: it just crashes by itself without any doctoring necessary. NOW I feel safe that my dad would NEVER want such rubbish.

I've had enough of this. I think I said I had deinstalled XP, but I only erased Longhorn; I was too lazy to erase XP. Time to do what I was supposed to have done in the first place...

     :mad:        :mad:        :mad:    

Whew! That calmed me down.

Edit: HAH! DELETED! TAKE THAT, MICROSOFT SCUM!!!

Okay, I feel much better now.

[ July 20, 2003: Message edited by: Laukev7 ]

[avello500]

quote:Originally posted by Laukev7:

Okay, I feel much better now.

could you put down the knife then?