why would they do that?
it's top quality advertising to put an icon on the default desktop, and it's priceless to make it stay there for good. now onto today's real airhead:
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Originally posted by avid007:
All you Linux heads are partially wasting your time. Here is why-
YOU CANNOT BEAT MICROSOFT
People will always use windows
i don't. ctually, i currently use it only when i need to burn a CD. this is incredibly fiddly and problematic in windows, and often requires a complete system reinstall to get it working, however as of yet cdrecord does not support my USB cdrw. that aside, many people don't use windows or microsoft products and you're just going to have to live with it. myself, i don't give a shit if you use windows or not, so unless you have something to say, i'd advise you to shut up. However, don't come running to me when you have a problem. In fact, if you do have a problem,
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and there is no way that Linux or Apple or anyone is going to change that. I am not a dipshit either, I had my first Linux installed in 95 and I thought, this shit sucks.
so you think that linux can't have improved much since 1995, do you? you really do seem to be a dipshit, sorry to break it to you. Linux (and other similar open source systems) has developed faster that any other system in that space of time, by a long shot. In 1995, KDE and GNOME were not even thought of. look at them today! they rival not only windows, but MacOS!
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I had to right my own AT commands for my modem and initiallization strings and shit. It blew.
well i don't have to do that now, so your complaints are, like everything else you have said, nothing but hot air.
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I know Linux is WAY better now, but it simply cannot compete. Here comes the exception....
aha! that was the escape clause was it? so now you can say "i said it was better now". Well, i like how you backed yourself up with arguments, surely it's a matter of opinion anyway. some people, like you, actually like shitty slow computer environments where you can't do stuff the way you want to because you are forced to use those brainless wizards for everything. Honestly, some people love that because it stops them having to THINK, which is scary to them since then they might have to have an OPINION of their OWN.
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The big BUT is that it is a solid server and really nice embedded OS, so the part where u are not wasting your time is that you can all become developers or admins...but don't be fooled you cannot change the windows desktop. It ain't going anywhere.
we will see, however you know it seems that after your bold comment at the start there, i am not wasting my time after all, since i am incredibly interested in systems and system admin. thanks for your support in this matter, it means a lot since i really care what you think. As i said somewhere else, you seem intelligent, but your comments seem like nothing but recycled garbage to me.
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I gave up on fighting this shit about 4 years ago when 98 was coming out.
well good for you, if you see it as a fight, one on one, this or that, no compromises, then i feel a little sorry for you, myself i see it as a preservation of choice. I will always be against monopolistic behaviour in any form.
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Now bring on the FLAMES!
let's not, hmm? i think you want to be flamed so you can just confirm in your own little mind about how closed minded we all are, and feel self righteous that you are justified in your own closed minded opinion.
Well tough. if you want to see these comments of mine as flames then go ahead, but they are simple responses to the comments you have made, which i think are a little too vacuous to take that seriously.
seeya on the forums!
