1) linux seems free but it is not
It costs to download ALL free software. Downloading cost isn't
included in the "free" designation.
3) High quality support for windows is available on the microsoft
newsgroups, and google. There is an answer for every problem imaginable on google.
Many "answers" on the internet, usenet included, are worse than
worthless. If you can't tell a good answer from a dangerous one you
have to pay for help.
(Your post is proof of this.)
4)Linux will die like the dinosaurs...or it must evolve into something
better than it is now.
It's constantly evolving. But it was already better, more stable,
more versatile, than Windows the day it started.
5)you said it.... 35 years.... old outdated... its time to move on!
The human form is a few million years old, so is it outdated also?
6)There is no forced upgrade for windows
Sure there is - if you're running 98, how do you get upgrades to
protect you from new exploits? Oh, you either don't or you upgrade.
7) Learning how to use linux in a full extent is a tremendus task!
So is learning how to use Windows to the same extent. Most users
don't know how to use Windows properly - they know just enough to do
what they need to do.
You have to learn to compile programs
Not to USE linux.
Same as batch commands in Windows.
Its a nightmare.. no simple user wants or cares of such stuff!!!
We're talking about computer USERS, not Luddites, dragged to computers
kicking and screaming against their will.
You shouldn't have started.
I can counter each claim of this person... he is clearly
looking at linux from his own standpoint.
Oh, and you're totally unbiased.
You cant go around telling people to format windows and install linux... and
then .. after seeing that they cant do anything,
format linux and install windows....
No one is, but don't let that keep you from burning your straw man
down.
