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Fett101

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« Reply #30 on: 18 July 2003, 22:34 »
In the first post, you say "He already has Linux in his computer", so you easily counter your own argument.

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« Reply #31 on: 18 July 2003, 23:43 »
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 ]


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« Reply #32 on: 18 July 2003, 23:56 »
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 ]

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Laukev7

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« Reply #33 on: 19 July 2003, 00:08 »
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A grown man who wants to use XP but not pay for it.


LOL! 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

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« Reply #34 on: 20 July 2003, 11:06 »
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 ]


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« Reply #35 on: 20 July 2003, 12:35 »
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Originally posted by Laukev7:

Okay, I feel much better now.



could you put down the knife then?
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