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Have you ever bought MS software?
LocNar:
I confess... I bought Win 98 SE full OEM from ebay after I assembled my first computer from scratch. Why? A few reasons.
1) Wife had a Pentium 100 Packard Hell with Win 95 pre-installed. Buggy piece of shit. Wanted to upgrade. She's not computer literate, and is familiar with the interface. So, I put 98 there, and it does run better.
2) On my new screaming AMD 1900+, I want to play video games (occasionally) that are not available for my PS2.
3) My screamer has Linux on a 2nd partition. But had problems installing, namely kernel panic! Linux didn't like the Highpoint RAID controller on my mobo. Now, It didn't come right out and say this. After searching on googlegroups, I found an answer. Disable the controller in the BIOS. I tried, and it worked. Then my floppy wasn't recognized. Another search revealed that I needed to modify LILO. Then it worked perfectly. Point being... I couldn't access the web on my new machine directly (no modem) or indirectly through LAN without running some flavor of WIN. Linux runs horribly slow (with GUI which is how I prefer to surf the web) on the Packard Hell, whose modem isn't compatible with Linux anyway.
Moral of the story, sometimes it is, echh... "convenient" to run M$, even if it's only temporary. I haven't (nor do I plan to) purchase anymore MShit. I use the 602 office suite, and plan to move to open office. I've also recently learned TEX/LATEX, and LOVE IT. UBER-COOL.
As for internet, I have DSL now, and another Packard Bell that I just dropped two NIC's into, and am very soon going to convert to a Linux Router for my little LAN.
Kintaro:
At least get Windows 2000 or XP, they are much better with games, XP has a better graphics inteface. Not that I use either, I use RH 8.0, but when I have a copy of Dropline Gnome, i will be a slackass once again.
devlkore:
I've never bought M$ software, but they probably got a few pounds of me from the two controllers and two games I bought for my Xblock that were new (secondhand everything else).
I was given a legit copy of Win 2K which I use, and my computer came with WinMe, GRR!
To the person that said it's not necessary to use M$'s shitty software. Well, in theory yes, but I need to use various multimedia progs and I can't afford to upgrade and maintaain a Mac, so I have to use a PC, and I can't run PhotoShop and Flash on BeOS now can I?
Piracy can sometimes be the only anti-M$ statement a person can make in certain situations. I've had to use PowerPoint at uni, but since there is no proper alternative that fully supports PowerPoint files, piracy kept me away from actually buying the damn thing, well, that and the fact that it's shit and not worth my money anyway.
Lord C:
quote:Originally posted by Panos:
If you put it that way, then yes. Just about every person in these forums has bought Microsoft products willingly or not. I thought that the guy who posted this topic, was talking about extra M$ software.
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tbh, more people should build their on PCs ;D
(or buy linux pre-installed PCs of course :D )
Pantso:
quote:Originally posted by BaDDaSS[Mandrake]:
tbh, more people should build their on PCs ;D
(or buy linux pre-installed PCs of course :D )
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Did you mean 'own'?
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