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For the people who think linux will make it into being widespread as workstations, your wrong. People who use workstations in work applications only want to do their job, they dont want to know how to fix anything or make a script that check if some 12 year old backdoored their computer, they just want to do their work and get on with it. Personally i think linux in the state it is in should only be used on servers. Until it is more user friendly thats where its staying in the real world
Ironic words indeed. Linux does a
far better job of just letting folks get their work done. After all, once it's up and running, it just keeps going on. Hell, Linux doesn't even have the equivalent of a BSOD!
As for doing work, well, this close friend of the family was in her final quarter of med school. There was this one class she had to take for graduation. The "final" consisted of doing a paper, that she'd worked on for two weeks on the new Sony Viao her husband had recently bought - with Win XP pre-installed. The night before her paper was due, she was putting the finishing touches on it, and guess what happened?
That's right - XP crashed hard. :eek: And her report was totally, completely gone. MIA. Needless to say, it just wasn't possible for her to spend the rest of the night recreating two weeks' worth of work. And the professor wouldn't take "XP ate my homework" for an excuse either. So, this summer, she spent it repeating the course - a course she'd've passed had it not been for XP. :mad: (The next day, she requested that I pay her a visit to wipe XP off the HD
and install Mandrake Linux).
The term "Microsoft workstation" is an oxymoron
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Computers are like air conditioners: they can't do their jobs if you open windows.
