Get your Mac, it's raining Trojans

[Ground Cover]

No one is saying Microsoft hasn't created proprietary protocols ever. I'm
just say that, in more recent times, Microsoft has deliberately set out to
meets standards e.g. Internet Explorer 7... and has published its work etc.
to be accepted as a standard e.g. C#.

So to say that Microsot carte blanche strikes with proprietary stuff to
deliberately break standards is, well, fallacious.

 

[Ground Cover]

\>> View Some Common Linux Desktops ...
KDE and Gnome, in their latest renditions are about the most gawd awful ugly
desktops one can imagine - one couldn't plan an more pathetic lame desktop.
Best is to put the translucency on max so one doesn't have to be remind of
their scathing lack every moment one looks at it. But, in the (quick) end,
even the prettiest stupid penguin wall paper doesn't cover the fact that, as
desktops, both Gnome and KDE are utterly dismal, as pathetic as those Linux
Loonies going at it with theselves looking at Firefox displaying some
useless online pawrn site - heck, the Start menu is less developed than
Windows 95's -- --- -- so better yet is just to uninstall Linux, and forget
one ever used it. But, oh wait, there's a insect that refuses to leave,
miserable thing so ...

... just hand me the Maxtor MaxBlast so it can kill the forsaken Grub and be
done with the infestation.

Now slither back to COLA and give yourself a kernel panic - don't forget to
shower (twice) afterwards.

 

[Rockwell]

No one is saying Microsoft hasn't created proprietary protocols ever. I'm
just say that, in more recent times, Microsoft has deliberately set out to
meets standards e.g. Internet Explorer 7... and has published its work etc.
to be accepted as a standard e.g. C#.

So to say that Microsot carte blanche strikes with proprietary stuff to
deliberately break standards is, well, fallacious.

In the past, MS has had a terrible reputation for this, because that is
what they did. I have to admit, I am skeptical of anything new coming
out of MS being non-proprietary. I googled a bit for evidence of this,
and it looks like I am not giving them as much credit as is due.
However, it also sounds like they have a much longer way to go. I hate
the fact they removed the menu from the default view anyway.
Mozilla/Linux works better for me. YMMV.

http://neosmart.net/blog/archives/204

"Compatibility
We only wish that Internet Explorer 7’s compatibility improvements were
even half of its improvements in security - it’s that bad.
Technically (and only technically speaking), Internet Explorer 7 is a
fairly standards-compliant browser, especially compared to IE6.
Actually, Internet Explorer 7 is very compliant browser, but the problem
is in how it interprets the data, and raises a question of whether pages
should be displayed according to standards or according to the wishes of
the designers - sometimes the difference is drastic: should the browser
intervene?

IE6 did, but IE7 doesn’t, and it makes a big difference. The fact of the
matter is that although Internet Explorer 7 passes most CSS 2.1 tests
fairly well, when it comes right down to it, pages still won’t display
in Internet Explorer the same they do in every other standards-compliant
engine, from Gecko to Opera, and everything in between.

For an example, look at this blog’s homepage and a sample post as taken
from Internet Explorer 7. This site uses fairly standard coding
techniques and is valid XHTML according to the W3C (in its design, but
not always content).

Is can be seen, Internet Explorer 7 has severe issues dealing with DIV
tags that overlap. In the second example, the “Previous Post” and “Next
Post” near the top of the post are under one another when they should be
on the same line - because Internet Explorer 7 still insists on
outputting one DIV tag then the next one after it in most cases -
something that Internet Explorer 6 did even worse, but nevertheless, IE7
isn’t perfect.

In the first example the sponsored links (as a CSS-formatted list) is
displayed a link for each line - while it was meant to show as two links
a line. The code isn’t perfect, but then again, is it ever? Where the
designers attempt to improvise with hacks and tricks that a browser has
never before seen in order to get something to look the way they would
like, the other browsers attempt to render it as the designer intended,
but IE7 doesn’t. It seems that Internet Explorer 7 is stuck on either
extreme; on one end IE6 improvises and changes the code at whim to make
it look ‘right’ (though it fails miserably now, it used to be quite good
when IE 5 came out), and Internet Explorer 7 refuses to use “quirks”
mode, leaving a gap in the middle."

 

[NoStop]

\>> View Some Common Linux Desktops ...

KDE and Gnome, in their latest renditions are about the most gawd awful
ugly desktops one can imagine - one couldn't plan an more pathetic lame
desktop. Best is to put the translucency on max so one doesn't have to be
remind of their scathing lack every moment one looks at it. But, in the
(quick) end, even the prettiest stupid penguin wall paper doesn't cover
the fact that, as desktops, both Gnome and KDE are utterly dismal, as
pathetic as those Linux Loonies going at it with theselves looking at
Firefox displaying some
useless online pawrn site - heck, the Start menu is less developed than
Windows 95's -- --- -- so better yet is just to uninstall Linux, and
forget one ever used it. But, oh wait, there's a insect that refuses to
leave, miserable thing so ...

Here's one you may like. I understand Wintards love the look of clouds on
their desktops. Reminds them of what a kludgy and cloudy outdated toy
operating system they use.

http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/s...67&slide=22&title=vlos+1.3+beta+1+screenshots

PS. This might wrap if you're viewing it with a pathetic "newsgroup client"
like Outlook Express. Don't worry you can Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V to reassemble
the full url in your pathetic Internet Explorer. But before doing so, you
might want to run a few scans for viruses and adware and then defrag your
Sea Drive. Do make sure your anti-virus databases are all updated and
you're running the latest critical security updates from MickeyMouse, like
WGA. Oh shit, did you have to reboot? Now it's saying your version of
Windoze is pirated. Don't worry, you can run out to your closest bigbox
"computer store" and purchase another XP license. The more XP licenses you
have the closer you'll be to Nirvana.



--
WGA is the best thing that has happened for Linux in a while.

The ULTIMATE Windoze Fanboy:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2370205018226686613

Is this a modern day equivalent of a Nazi youth rally?:

http://www.ntk.net/media/developers.mpg

A 3D Linux Desktop (video) ...

View Some Common Linux Desktops ...
http://shots.osdir.com/

 

[Bob]

I would prefer windows 95 over the 31 flavor os any day.

 

[Nevermind]

Here's one you may like. I understand Wintards love the look of clouds on
their desktops. Reminds them of what a kludgy and cloudy outdated toy
operating system they use.

http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/s...67&slide=22&title=vlos+1.3+beta+1+screenshots

PS. This might wrap if you're viewing it with a pathetic "newsgroup client"
like Outlook Express. Don't worry you can Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V to reassemble
the full url in your pathetic Internet Explorer. But before doing so, you
might want to run a few scans for viruses and adware and then defrag your
Sea Drive. Do make sure your anti-virus databases are all updated and
you're running the latest critical security updates from MickeyMouse, like
WGA. Oh shit, did you have to reboot? Now it's saying your version of
Windoze is pirated. Don't worry, you can run out to your closest bigbox
"computer store" and purchase another XP license. The more XP licenses you
have the closer you'll be to Nirvana.

I do like the Linux wallpaper picture with the church steeple sticking
up from the middle of a lake. Another thing I like about the KDE
desktop is the little icons arranged vertically on the left side of
Konqueror's window. Those are handy. It is too bad that there is only
one half decent desktop colour scheme in the versions of Linux that I
have tried: media peach.

 

[NoStop]

I would prefer windows 95 over the 31 flavor os any day.

To each his own. Some people do prefer a Honda Civic over a Ferrari. If you
like Win95 (a Civic) so much ... use it. I prefer Linux (a Ferrari).


--
WGA is the best thing that has happened for Linux in a while.

The ULTIMATE Windoze Fanboy:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2370205018226686613

Is this a modern day equivalent of a Nazi youth rally?:

http://www.ntk.net/media/developers.mpg

A 3D Linux Desktop (video) ...

View Some Common Linux Desktops ...
http://shots.osdir.com/

 

[Ground Cover]

LOL

Don't make me choke. Yes, in your dreams Linux is a "Ferrari" - I can
imagine the carryings on. It's amazing what one can convince oneself of if
one tries real hard.

I bet you talk of the Linux 10 minute boot process as "speedy". The four
minute load time of Open Office as "rocket". The glacial file listing of
KDE's file explorer as "Ferrari-like". The two minutes to load Firefox as
"snappy".

And your Linux loonie "friends" probably go on about "Lamborghini"
performance of the three games that actually play on Linux.

Sorry to burst your bubbles but these phantasm are merely the pathetic
conceits of a morbidly disconnected Linux La La Land "world view" or
"Weltanschauung". You want to believe *so much* it is true .. ... the
obscene twists and prevaritcating turns you must go through to explain away
the contradictions to your Linux La La Land-instilled mental constructs that
even just the one booting of a Windows XP machine presents to you.

The fact is, is that a Windows user can boot, bring up a document, print it
and power off before a Linux loonie can get to his desktop. And should the
Linux loonie actually get to the point h/sh/it is ready to print, they have
to face the prospect that there likely are no drivers available to make the
printer work. No, manually copying out the text with crayons isn't
"printing".

But go on, call that laggard pile of Linux bit waste "a Ferrari" all you
want - as pathetic it is to do so. But, heavens, I already feel tired just
contemplating the herculean and exhausting work and the extraordinary mental
effort on your part to prevent your Linux psychopathology from cataclysmic
and apocolyptic disintergration every time you should even pass near a
machine running Windows.

 

[Gray]

But it does come with a free penguin toy to play with.

 

[Bob I]

OH! OH! OH! I want one of those Operating System toys to play with!!!

 

[Frank]

*****TOP POSTING TROLL*****Not even good at it.

Ground Cover wrote:
|| LOL
||
|| Don't make me choke. Yes, in your dreams Linux is a "Ferrari" - I can
|| imagine the carryings on. It's amazing what one can convince oneself
|| of if one tries real hard.
||
|| I bet you talk of the Linux 10 minute boot process as "speedy". The
|| four minute load time of Open Office as "rocket". The glacial file
|| listing of KDE's file explorer as "Ferrari-like". The two minutes to
|| load Firefox as "snappy".
||
|| And your Linux loonie "friends" probably go on about "Lamborghini"
|| performance of the three games that actually play on Linux.
||
|| Sorry to burst your bubbles but these phantasm are merely the
|| pathetic conceits of a morbidly disconnected Linux La La Land "world
|| view" or "Weltanschauung". You want to believe *so much* it is true
|| .. ... the obscene twists and prevaritcating turns you must go
|| through to explain away the contradictions to your Linux La La
|| Land-instilled mental constructs that even just the one booting of a
|| Windows XP machine presents to you.
||
|| The fact is, is that a Windows user can boot, bring up a document,
|| print it and power off before a Linux loonie can get to his desktop.
|| And should the Linux loonie actually get to the point h/sh/it is
|| ready to print, they have to face the prospect that there likely are
|| no drivers available to make the printer work. No, manually copying
|| out the text with crayons isn't "printing".
||
|| But go on, call that laggard pile of Linux bit waste "a Ferrari" all
|| you want - as pathetic it is to do so. But, heavens, I already feel
|| tired just contemplating the herculean and exhausting work and the
|| extraordinary mental effort on your part to prevent your Linux
|| psychopathology from cataclysmic and apocolyptic disintergration
|| every time you should even pass near a machine running Windows.
||
||
||
||
|| NoStop wrote:
|||| On Monday 10 July 2006 05:33 pm, Bob had this to say in
|||| microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:
||||
||||| I would prefer windows 95 over the 31 flavor os any day.
|||||
|||| To each his own. Some people do prefer a Honda Civic over a
|||| Ferrari. If you like Win95 (a Civic) so much ... use it. I prefer
|||| Linux (a Ferrari).
||||
||||
|||||
||||| |||||| On Monday 10 July 2006 11:39 am, Ground Cover had this to say in
|||||| microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:
||||||
||||||| \>> View Some Common Linux Desktops ...
||||||||| http://shots.osdir.com/
|||||||
||||||| KDE and Gnome, in their latest renditions are about the most
||||||| gawd awful ugly desktops one can imagine - one couldn't plan an
||||||| more pathetic lame desktop. Best is to put the translucency on
||||||| max so one doesn't have to be remind of their scathing lack
||||||| every moment one looks at it. But, in the (quick) end, even the
||||||| prettiest stupid penguin wall paper doesn't cover the fact
||||||| that, as desktops, both Gnome and KDE are utterly dismal, as
||||||| pathetic as those Linux Loonies going at it with theselves
||||||| looking at Firefox displaying some
||||||| useless online pawrn site - heck, the Start menu is less
||||||| developed than Windows 95's -- --- -- so better yet is just to
||||||| uninstall Linux, and forget one ever used it. But, oh wait,
||||||| there's a insect that refuses to leave, miserable thing so ...
|||||||
|||||| Here's one you may like. I understand Wintards love the look of
|||||| clouds on their desktops. Reminds them of what a kludgy and
|||||| cloudy outdated toy operating system they use.
||||||
||||||
||||
http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/s...67&slide=22&title=vlos+1.3+beta+1+screenshots
||||||
|||||| PS. This might wrap if you're viewing it with a pathetic
|||||| "newsgroup client"
|||||| like Outlook Express. Don't worry you can Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V to
|||||| reassemble the full url in your pathetic Internet Explorer. But
|||||| before doing so, you might want to run a few scans for viruses
|||||| and adware and then defrag your Sea Drive. Do make sure your
|||||| anti-virus databases are all updated and you're running the
|||||| latest critical security updates from MickeyMouse, like WGA. Oh
|||||| shit, did you have to reboot? Now it's saying your version of
|||||| Windoze is pirated. Don't worry, you can run out to your closest
|||||| bigbox "computer store" and purchase another XP license. The
|||||| more XP licenses you have the closer you'll be to Nirvana.
||||||
||||||
||||||
|||||| --
|||||| WGA is the best thing that has happened for Linux in a while.
||||||
|||||| The ULTIMATE Windoze Fanboy:
||||||
|||||| http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2370205018226686613
||||||
|||||| Is this a modern day equivalent of a Nazi youth rally?:
||||||
|||||| http://www.ntk.net/media/developers.mpg
||||||
|||||| A 3D Linux Desktop (video) ...
||||||
||||||

||||||
|||||| View Some Common Linux Desktops ...
|||||| http://shots.osdir.com/
||||||
||||
|||| --
|||| WGA is the best thing that has happened for Linux in a while.
||||
|||| The ULTIMATE Windoze Fanboy:
||||
|||| http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2370205018226686613
||||
|||| Is this a modern day equivalent of a Nazi youth rally?:
||||
|||| http://www.ntk.net/media/developers.mpg
||||
|||| A 3D Linux Desktop (video) ...
||||
||||

||||
|||| View Some Common Linux Desktops ...
|||| http://shots.osdir.com/

 

[Ground Cover]

Just go back to COLA. Git.

 

[Bob]

Umm didn't YOU just top post?

*****TOP POSTING TROLL*****Not even good at it.

Ground Cover wrote:
|| LOL
||
|| Don't make me choke. Yes, in your dreams Linux is a "Ferrari" - I can
|| imagine the carryings on. It's amazing what one can convince oneself
|| of if one tries real hard.
||
|| I bet you talk of the Linux 10 minute boot process as "speedy". The
|| four minute load time of Open Office as "rocket". The glacial file
|| listing of KDE's file explorer as "Ferrari-like". The two minutes to
|| load Firefox as "snappy".
||
|| And your Linux loonie "friends" probably go on about "Lamborghini"
|| performance of the three games that actually play on Linux.
||
|| Sorry to burst your bubbles but these phantasm are merely the
|| pathetic conceits of a morbidly disconnected Linux La La Land "world
|| view" or "Weltanschauung". You want to believe *so much* it is true
|| .. ... the obscene twists and prevaritcating turns you must go
|| through to explain away the contradictions to your Linux La La
|| Land-instilled mental constructs that even just the one booting of a
|| Windows XP machine presents to you.
||
|| The fact is, is that a Windows user can boot, bring up a document,
|| print it and power off before a Linux loonie can get to his desktop.
|| And should the Linux loonie actually get to the point h/sh/it is
|| ready to print, they have to face the prospect that there likely are
|| no drivers available to make the printer work. No, manually copying
|| out the text with crayons isn't "printing".
||
|| But go on, call that laggard pile of Linux bit waste "a Ferrari" all
|| you want - as pathetic it is to do so. But, heavens, I already feel
|| tired just contemplating the herculean and exhausting work and the
|| extraordinary mental effort on your part to prevent your Linux
|| psychopathology from cataclysmic and apocolyptic disintergration
|| every time you should even pass near a machine running Windows.
||
||
||
||
|| NoStop wrote:
|||| On Monday 10 July 2006 05:33 pm, Bob had this to say in
|||| microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:
||||
||||| I would prefer windows 95 over the 31 flavor os any day.
|||||
|||| To each his own. Some people do prefer a Honda Civic over a
|||| Ferrari. If you like Win95 (a Civic) so much ... use it. I prefer
|||| Linux (a Ferrari).
||||
||||
|||||
||||| |||||| On Monday 10 July 2006 11:39 am, Ground Cover had this to say in
|||||| microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:
||||||
||||||| \>> View Some Common Linux Desktops ...
||||||||| http://shots.osdir.com/
|||||||
||||||| KDE and Gnome, in their latest renditions are about the most
||||||| gawd awful ugly desktops one can imagine - one couldn't plan an
||||||| more pathetic lame desktop. Best is to put the translucency on
||||||| max so one doesn't have to be remind of their scathing lack
||||||| every moment one looks at it. But, in the (quick) end, even the
||||||| prettiest stupid penguin wall paper doesn't cover the fact
||||||| that, as desktops, both Gnome and KDE are utterly dismal, as
||||||| pathetic as those Linux Loonies going at it with theselves
||||||| looking at Firefox displaying some
||||||| useless online pawrn site - heck, the Start menu is less
||||||| developed than Windows 95's -- --- -- so better yet is just to
||||||| uninstall Linux, and forget one ever used it. But, oh wait,
||||||| there's a insect that refuses to leave, miserable thing so ...
|||||||
|||||| Here's one you may like. I understand Wintards love the look of
|||||| clouds on their desktops. Reminds them of what a kludgy and
|||||| cloudy outdated toy operating system they use.
||||||
||||||
||||
http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/s...67&slide=22&title=vlos+1.3+beta+1+screenshots
||||||
|||||| PS. This might wrap if you're viewing it with a pathetic
|||||| "newsgroup client"
|||||| like Outlook Express. Don't worry you can Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V to
|||||| reassemble the full url in your pathetic Internet Explorer. But
|||||| before doing so, you might want to run a few scans for viruses
|||||| and adware and then defrag your Sea Drive. Do make sure your
|||||| anti-virus databases are all updated and you're running the
|||||| latest critical security updates from MickeyMouse, like WGA. Oh
|||||| shit, did you have to reboot? Now it's saying your version of
|||||| Windoze is pirated. Don't worry, you can run out to your closest
|||||| bigbox "computer store" and purchase another XP license. The
|||||| more XP licenses you have the closer you'll be to Nirvana.
||||||
||||||
||||||
|||||| --
|||||| WGA is the best thing that has happened for Linux in a while.
||||||
|||||| The ULTIMATE Windoze Fanboy:
||||||
|||||| http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2370205018226686613
||||||
|||||| Is this a modern day equivalent of a Nazi youth rally?:
||||||
|||||| http://www.ntk.net/media/developers.mpg
||||||
|||||| A 3D Linux Desktop (video) ...
||||||
||||||

||||||
|||||| View Some Common Linux Desktops ...
|||||| http://shots.osdir.com/
||||||
||||
|||| --
|||| WGA is the best thing that has happened for Linux in a while.
||||
|||| The ULTIMATE Windoze Fanboy:
||||
|||| http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2370205018226686613
||||
|||| Is this a modern day equivalent of a Nazi youth rally?:
||||
|||| http://www.ntk.net/media/developers.mpg
||||
|||| A 3D Linux Desktop (video) ...
||||
||||

||||
|||| View Some Common Linux Desktops ...
|||| http://shots.osdir.com/

 

[Ground Cover]

Linux people live in a duality: reality (which they continuously deny) and
the phantasm where where Linux is "a Ferrari". So it's perfectly OK to a
Linux Loonie to accuse me of "top-posting" with his own top-posted post
(in a Microsoft newsgroup no less).

 

[Pez D Spencer]

KDE and Gnome, in their latest renditions are about the most gawd awful ugly
desktops one can imagine - one couldn't plan an more pathetic lame desktop.

what!? you don't like how kde looks like a bad ripoff of windows 95?

it makes me all nostalgic when i see it.

you don't like how gnome resembles mac os 1.1?

it's difficult to decide which of the two makes me want to smash a
computer to pieces more...

 

[Michael Stevens]

Michael,

No, I disagree. Vulnerabilities are exploited because they are there.
Windoze boxes are attacked because it is so easy and possible to attack
this toy operating system because it is so full of vulnerabilities.
GNU/Linux isn't attacked anywhere near as often because it simply doesn't
have the vulnerabilities that leave it open for attack even though so many
Linux boxes are open as servers on the Net. End of discussion and end of
any further responses from me on this subject. There is none quite so
blind
as one who refuses to see.

"Anti-virus firm McAfee released protection for its 200,000th ever malware
threat this week."

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/06/malware_milestone/

Go and count the malware threats IN THE WILD (not is some lab somewhere)
targeting GNU/Linux. Anywhere close to 200,000? Close to 1,000? Close to
100?





--
The ULTIMATE Windoze Fanboy:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2370205018226686613

A 3D Linux Desktop (video) ...

View Some Common Linux Desktops ...
http://shots.osdir.com/

So why are you so blind to acknowledge that many Linux distros even though
being in such a minority of installed systems are still required almost
daily to download and apply security updates?
Can you truthfully say it would not escalate to the level Windows is being
attacked if it was the dominate OS?
Do you really think the open source community would be better and faster
than MS implementing a bug free fix?

The real crisis with the internet is not the OS, but the criminal mentality
that is exploiting and manipulating the internet for personal greed. If you
think any Linux Distro that became the dominate OS would not be the target
of every
scam artist computer hacker, you are truly in denial.
--
Michael Stevens MS-MVP XP
(e-mail address removed)
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com
For a better newsgroup experience. Setup a newsreader.
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/outlookexpressnewreader.htm

 

[Gordon]

\>> View Some Common Linux Desktops ...

KDE and Gnome, in their latest renditions are about the most gawd awful
ugly desktops one can imagine

But you don't SEE the desktop when you are doing WORK, do you? If all you
want to do is stare at a pretty desktop with a pretty wallpaper all day,
then by all means stick with Windows. I prefer to be PRODUCTIVE, and as
such the way the desktop looks is entirely irrelevant to me.

 

[Gordon]

Michael Stevens wrote:

So why are you so blind to acknowledge that many Linux distros even
though being in such a minority of installed systems are still required
almost daily to download and apply security updates?

Nothing blind about that - that's how FAST the vulnerabilities get fixed -
with Microsoft you have to wait until the next scheduled patch release
which could be up to ONE MONTH, and even then, there's no guarantee that
all the vulnerabilities will be fixed, or that the "fix" won't bork up
applications.......

 

[Ground Cover]

I'm exasperated with the senselessness!

"way the desktop looks is entirely irrelevant to me" - This would have to be
the case - you use Linux.

And you can't be all that productive unless you use Linux like some terminal
bacause working with KDE and Gnome is difficult and convoluted,
unpredictable and un-intuitive. In other words, they hinder getting work
done. Add to that Linux's glacial speed.

A Windows user can boot, log on, bring up a document, print it and power
down before a Linux user can even get to his log-on screen - so much for
"Linux productivity".

Get a clue, Gordon, or whoever you are:

1. This is an msnews.microsoft.com newsgroup
2. If I or anyone else wanted Linux advocacy I'd/they go to COLA
3. Therefore your posts are glaringly off-topic
4. Linux is useless anyway and butt-ugly to boot.
5. AND NO ONE CARE ABOUT LINUX - ESPECIALLY HERE

So slither back to COLA and give your machine a kernel panic.

 

[Gordon]

I'm exasperated with the senselessness!

"way the desktop looks is entirely irrelevant to me" - This would have to
be the case - you use Linux.

And you can't be all that productive unless you use Linux like some
terminal bacause working with KDE and Gnome is difficult and convoluted,
unpredictable and un-intuitive. In other words, they hinder getting work
done. Add to that Linux's glacial speed.

Well I don't know what decade of the twentieth century you are stuck in, but
Linux has moved WAY WAY beyond your obvious time-warp - Open Office 2.02 is
EASILY the equivalent of Office XP (and for the overwhelming numbers of
Office Users that is more than sufficient - and I speak as a Management and
systems accountant). I also don't know where you get the slowness thing
from - I dual boot Windows XP and Kubuntu on the same machine. I have
Office 2003 on the XP part and Open Office 2.02 on the Linux. With the
exception of OO taking maybe one or two seconds longer than Office 2003 to
launch, there is NO speed differential at all.

I suggest you shut up until you've tried it yourself, or are you a paid
minion of MS, paid to disseminate disinformation and FUD?