Good Bye cruel world

[Emerald Saint]

M$ has so many little things in their OSs to keep you trapped in their
product line - and also to keep you dumbed-down. I am no power user and no
Einstein either but I like to tinker around. I like to know what's going on
with my PC and to have control of it. Actually I DO think WinXP is pretty
damn cool and I hope I can get by WITHOUT Vista for a long time. But I have
a complete distribution of Slackware Linux 10.0 and I'm going to start
figuring how to install it today. Also I'm going to get free from these
zillion versions of MSDOS commands that don't work with each other (it says:
wrong version of MSDOS . . . oops again). I'm going to learn to do
everything in FreeDOS.

I have a fairly new laptop that has Vista and I don't think I have any use
for Vista. I hope we can get by with XP for a while. I'm joining the
struggle against Microsoft. I'm going to work within the system like a
guerilla warrior.

Ok. Time to repartition the drive.

 

[Malke]

M$ has so many little things in their OSs to keep you trapped in their
product line - and also to keep you dumbed-down. I am no power user and no
Einstein either but I like to tinker around. I like to know what's going on
with my PC and to have control of it. Actually I DO think WinXP is pretty
damn cool and I hope I can get by WITHOUT Vista for a long time. But I have
a complete distribution of Slackware Linux 10.0 and I'm going to start
figuring how to install it today.

(snippage)

I'm not sure why you think any of us would care what operating system
you run, but here are some links that will help you with Linux:

http://linux.oneandoneis2.org/LNW.htm
http://www.linux.org/news/opinion/success_user.html
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/index.php

Frankly, of all the distros that will be easy to start with Slack is not
one of them. IMO you'd be far better off starting out with
Ubuntu/Kubuntu, OpenSUSE (my fave), or even Mandriva.

http://distrowatch.com/

Good luck,

Malke

 

[David B.]

Gee, I hope I don't loose any sleep over this tonight, what will Microsoft
do without you as a user?
Seriously, why would we give a flyin rats a** what OS you use?

 

[Bob I]

Good bye, have a nice trip!

 

[VanguardLH]

M$ has so many little things in their OSs to keep you trapped in
their product line - and also to keep you dumbed-down. ...

Microsoft doesn't produce most games, so bitch to game authors about
not providing decent ports to other operating systems (rather than
picking one and doing crappy ports to the others, if at all). Other
applications have equivalents in other operating systems. Learn about
WINE or VMWare. No one has locked you into a particular OS other than
yourself.

 

[peter]

ah!! we will all miss your wisdom and knowledge of XP not ot mention your
sharp wit and sense of humor.
So on that note eh eh .. eh mmmmm .what was your name again???
peter

 

[Patrick Keenan]

M$ has so many little things in their OSs to keep you trapped in their
product line - and also to keep you dumbed-down. I am no power user and
no Einstein either but I like to tinker around. I like to know what's
going on with my PC and to have control of it.

Then I'm sure you will enjoy a Mac.

Actually I DO think WinXP is pretty damn cool and I hope I can get by
WITHOUT Vista for a long time. But I have a complete distribution of
Slackware Linux 10.0

Lucky you!

and I'm going to start figuring how to install it today.

Perhaps some hours into that you will begin to comprehend why Windows has so
much more Desktop market share than Linux.

By the way, Ubuntu will probably be much easier to install and likely have
much better hardware compatibility. And you'll only have to figure out how
to boot from DVD.

www.ubuntu.org

It's not unusual to find serious hardware incompatibilites within Linux
distrubutions. I recently went through installations of five or six
different Linux flavours on a pretty straightforward basic PC. Only one,
Ubuntu, would actually both install and run right away, with the most
obvious problems involving the video chip. And if you can't even see the
screen to tell if the system actually booted or hung, it's not that easy to
make configuration changes.

Also I'm going to get free from these zillion versions of MSDOS commands
that don't work with each other (it says: wrong version of MSDOS . . .
oops again).

You've been mixing system folders from different operating systems. This
is asking for trouble, but the fault is yours, not anyone else's.

I'm going to learn to do everything in FreeDOS.

Which will, of course, have commands that won't work with other OS versions.
Including Linux. And it may not give you proper reliable access to NTFS
volumes.

Most people tend to use computers to run applications to do some kind of
work, not to learn to use commands. And many of the apps you'd need to
actually use in the real world don't run on DOS anymore.

I have a fairly new laptop that has Vista and I don't think I have any use
for Vista.

Again, in the real world, most people use computers to use applications, not
to get to use an OS.

If the apps you need aren't supported on an OS, there is no reason to use
that OS.

If the apps you need are supported and run reliably, it's not particularly
important what the OS is.

I hope we can get by with XP for a while.

XP will be in use for years. A hospital nearby, which has in the range of
10,000 employees, still uses Windows 2000.

I'm joining the struggle against Microsoft. I'm going to work within the
system like a guerilla warrior.

Perhaps a better description would be "like a troll"?

You might want to start with trying to understand why computers are used,
and why it is that Linux has so little share of the Desktop OS market, and
why DOS versions are so little used.

If you actually want to struggle against MS, you'd need to be providing all
the apps that people use for work that aren't available for anything but
Windows, and make some other OS as easy to set up and use as Windows.

Ok. Time to repartition the drive.

Actually, it'd be time to start learning several programming languages, as
you'll have rather a lot of coding to do.

HTH
-pk

 

[Frank]

M$ has so many little things in their OSs to keep you trapped in their
product line - and also to keep you dumbed-down. I am no power user and no
Einstein either but I like to tinker around. I like to know what's going on
with my PC and to have control of it. Actually I DO think WinXP is pretty
damn cool and I hope I can get by WITHOUT Vista for a long time. But I have
a complete distribution of Slackware Linux 10.0 and I'm going to start
figuring how to install it today. Also I'm going to get free from these
zillion versions of MSDOS commands that don't work with each other (it says:
wrong version of MSDOS . . . oops again). I'm going to learn to do
everything in FreeDOS.

I have a fairly new laptop that has Vista and I don't think I have any use
for Vista. I hope we can get by with XP for a while. I'm joining the
struggle against Microsoft. I'm going to work within the system like a
guerilla warrior.

Ok. Time to repartition the drive.

One piece of advice:
buy yourself a nice pair of bullet proof shoes as you're proly gonna be
shooting yourself in the foot quite often.
Frank

 

[Homer J. Simpson]

Also I'm going to get free from these zillion versions of MSDOS

commands that don't work with each other (it says: wrong version of MSDOS
. . . oops again).

I'm genuinely curious about this. Which DOS commands are you talking about
don't "work with each other"? Have you been copying over .COM files from
Windows 95 and trying to run them under XP?