I'm thinking of installing Windows XP when it comes out

The whole comrade Bill Gates thing is ridiculous really. LINUX is the thing that is far more communist - you can take the code, use it for free, if you change it you must give all your work back to the Kommunity for their own use. That's far more of an assimilatory stance compared to raw capitalism with Windows: pay for it. Shocking that. Other people work, I pay to use there work.

Linux: work work work, barely get to where Windows was in 1993, work work, no profit, everything must be for the Kommunity and Richard Stallman is god.

And frankly there is zero real creativity in the linux scene save for making drivers for hardware. All linux is, is a free *nix OS, of which there are several alternatives such as the various BSDs which many would argue are far better.

I get endless amusement when reading posts by people who bitch about Windows being unstable. Christ, can these people BE any more stupid? Windows is such a goddamn easy OS to use. Everything works with very straightforward GUI consistency and with Windows 2000/XP, stability.

If you can not get Windows to run properly and it takes 5 times longer to boot (a fully functional linux install takes around 40 seconds, give or take network), you should start small, maybe with a Microwave oven or a stereo or something. They tend to be easier to grasp.

"Propaganda, let the average person use a command line for once, surely this command line is difficult to use is a myth created by microsoft to exponenciate their ever growing piles of useless code?"

Try talking to the CDE people and the X people, and hey, why not call up Xerox PARC and see if anybody from back in the 1970s can figure out why you are praising linux and bashing MS for all the wrong reasons?

"I don't know if you have installed many hardware devices on a micros0ft windows platform, but IMHO clicking though 5-10 different screens, pointing to directory X or Y and possibly rebooting as much as three times or more for one single piece of hardware is ludicrous, take the USR33600 horrible install IMHO I guess you are entitled to disagree but even if the install goes ok the minimum reboot factor is 3 times eh? What gives?"

Dude, installing hardware on Windows involves plugging it in, and having the ultra complicated choice of either: choosing to install the drivers before or (gasp!) after the hardware has been plugged in.

MS bashing by morons is too fashionable these days.

After Being informed by a UNIX user who works in a top programming job in the finacial company Imagine
UNIX = Best for internet servers and the like
Windows = Best for average user, and believe me he knows more than anybody about about all *nix systems
he uses it for building trading software systems
he's also my bro
he also thinks typedef is a complete f*cking spastic whos heard all this crap from some of his spastic nerd mates who also dont have a clue

Well there's no sense arguing with well thought out logic like that is there?



Call me spastic if you like. I used to install hardware in windows all day for Gateway, but if you think that is insufficient knowledge of windows and then go ahead, call me anyname you like Herr Windows_Troll. It's nice to know that a mob of m$ muppets can still flout the laws of logic and blatant obviousness eh? You may think that paying £800.00 quid for vb or £500.00 for VC is good value for money, similarly I believe I maybe should @ least not be slandered for thinking that *nix is better value and ultimately easier to use, but if you disagree as is your right in a free society then by all means do so ok? oh by the way when you are finished with me I think there is a group of Moslem mud-people down the road who were taking white jobs and burning the flag, I'll tell them to await your arrival with the wehrmacht and copies of Xp shall I?