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Re: I was TRICKED into Linux

  • Subject: Re: I was TRICKED into Linux
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 22:37:33 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: schestowitz.com / ISBE, Manchester University / ITS / Netscape / MCC
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__/ [ casioculture@xxxxxxxxx ] on Friday 15 September 2006 22:28 \__

> Johansen wrote:
>> I'm a man well above average intelligence. Despite of that, some Linux
>> advocates on the internet convinced me, that Linux was superior, easy and
>> had all that Windows had plus more. "It was easely installed, everyone
>> could do it." How would I ever fall for that!
>>
>> 1) When I installed Linux, the Windows partition was erased. Devices
>>    wasn't detected. Nothing worked properly. I couldn't even go into X.
>>    That was the so-called "easy" installation.
>>
>> 2) When I attempted to install the drivers, I found out Linux
>>    almost doesn't come with hardware support! I had to install "patches"
>>    in the kernel source-code to get simple things working.
>>
>> 4) Finally, when I had the most basic things set up, I would install some
>>    "packages", but only to find out, Linux applications have MORE chrashes
>>    then Windows applications. Not only that, the useablility was so low,
>>    that you would consider using a typewriter instead.
>>
>> What convinses me, that I've made a fool out of myself, is that the same
>> "community" that "converted" me to begin with, acted with such arrogance,
>> when I polietly asked the "community" for help. I was told to "read the
>> fucking manual." And that was all "help" I would get from the "community."
>> Rather the advocates do what they do, to stiffen their selfconfidence
>> and compensate for lack of real-life values.
> 
> *yawn*
> 
> And now you're coming back to complain to the "community" itself about
> the "community"?
> 
> Well here's what the "community" says; go f*ck yourself.
> 
> *wink wink*

It seems like it might a faker. Look at the headers. I sentence such as "I
couldn't even go into X" strikes a bell. Windows convert and reference to X?
As opposed to GUI-OS-SECURITY-KERNEL all-in-one mishmash-blob? Troll or
flamebait? Take a peek.

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