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Re: [News] Ubuntu Linux - Primetime Distro for Average Joe?

  • Subject: Re: [News] Ubuntu Linux - Primetime Distro for Average Joe?
  • From: flatfish+++ <flatfish@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 18:25:48 -0400
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: mariana.trench
  • References: <10100017.zRelXDBNsF@schestowitz.com> <WvkOg.554308$IK3.130361@pd7tw1no>
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  • Xref: news.mcc.ac.uk comp.os.linux.advocacy:1154684
On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 22:15:18 +0000, NoStop wrote:

> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> 
>> "Ubuntu - Primetime Linux?"
>> 
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | I've been using Ubuntu, one of the Linux variants, for the past two
>> | weeks and would like to share my experience with it as a desktop OS for
>> | "joe/jane sixpack" (I also tried using Mandriva, but found it not as
>> | user-friendly as Ubuntu).
>> `----
>> 
>> http://www.overclockers.com/articles1360/
> 
> The reviewer is a wintard and doesn't have much of a clue about what he's
> writing about. As an example:
> 
> "There is a way to launch Windows programs in Linux using an app called WINE
> (WINdows Emulator)."
> 
> Anyone the least bit familiar with Wine knows that its name means "Wine Is
> Not an Emulator" because indeed it is not an emulator. The author couldn't
> even get that right and had to fudge up an article portrayed as a review.
> Advocates like this bozo, we don't need.


Classic Linux Nutsack semantic sidestep.

Ignore the rest of the article and focus on one stupid semantic error.

You DO realize that 99 percent of the population thinks Wine is something
you drink?

Virtually nobody has ever even heard of Linux Wine..........

Fact.........



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