Posts by wallaby 243 publicly visible posts • joined 3 Feb 2015
As a matter of course I clean install windows on all new PC's, I'm sick of the crap that manufacturers bundle in - HP - stick your hotkeys where the sun don't shine, and the links to games centre and anything else you think you can try and entice me to spend money on - it wont work.
And before the penguinistas start (and FFS I wish they wouldn't) - I'm happy they are bundled with windows I just don't like crap they bundle on with it.
Sits back and awaits the diatribe from the diarrhoea tribe
"Well fuck you all, then, you arrogant pompous rude bastards! I'll stick with DOS and windows. Who needs your fucking useless operating system that doesn't fucking work anyway!!!! Fuck Off!!!"
Precisely my experience too, I've asked questions in Windows, Unix and OS/400 forums in the past and never had I had the treatment that seems to be doled out in Linux forums.
Linux has its place, just a shame some ( I SAID SOME - NOT ALL !!!) of the users are arse wipes.
"a big 'thumbs down' for the 'wanker' pejorative. It's as bad as 'denier'"
Sod the flares - BombasticBob is complaining about pejoratives and hasn't even blamed Microsoft for this. I upvoted him the other week - one more miracle and he will be up for sainthood
"35. Click 'Agree'. FFS. Done!"
but you aren't they will ask you the same questions in a few weeks hoping you cant be arsed going through it all again, and then a few weeks later again.... and again.... and again......
Google sets out on a war of attrition with users in a bid to wear you down.
"wallaby» You never truly own an apple product, it owns you.
This may be true. My IIfx is still going (albeit after new caps) and still plays the old games well."
And at a quick count I've still got 4 windows 95 machines, a couple of windows 98 machines and half a dozen NT3.51 and 4 machines running that have been going 24/7 for up to the last 16 years - I did have to replace a HD on one of the 98 machines 2 years back thanks to an unplanned power outage at the site.
"And so it's completely different from Windows, Office, etc."
Ermmm.......... where did I mention Windows in that post ???????????
And no, you are right
because Apple own the whole supply chain and with regards to apps for the mobile products they control what, and where you can get them from - unless you jailbreak it and invalidate the warranty
"Every time Microsoft opens its mouth I remember the last time I used a Windows machine."
Every time I see an article about Microsoft I see the Penguins emerge from the side-lines trying to make the story about them
I think all Windows users should post comments on Linux stories just so you Penguins can see how tedious it really is.
And by the way adeyjay I wasn't assuming you were a penguinista, id just trudged through the predictable drivel up to this point.
"Could I tempt you to another land that involves penguins?"
Hmmmm........,.
put my PCs in the hands of a warring bunch of Penguinistas who do little but rant about Microsoft (esp in a reply to an article where at no point was Linux mentioned) or put my PC's in the hands of a group of people I pay for results and who have so far succeeded in fixing them.
Not to say end up with desktop quality only a minor step of from Minecraft. Penguins are best seen on an iceberg, home PC or in the zoo certainly not on a professional PC.
Nah...... you cant tempt me thanks
Sits back yawning and awaits the rants............... sooooooooooooooooooo tedious.
"Can somebody pay a visit to bombastic bob's home and check his garden for suspicious pods?"
Hate to admit it - I upvoted him
Im buying a lottery ticket now I have proof the impossible can become possible - there is hope for us all.
Keep taking the tablets Bob, they seem to be working.
"Hang on, isn't that what "they" said about tobacco cigarettes for years until the masses of actual evidence became to great to ignore?"
This is the 21st century, claims about tobacco cigarettes were difficult to substantiate in the 1950's/60's and even the 70's given the lack of sensitivity of test equipment in those days. We now have instruments that can detect down to ppb levels.
Just because it seems like something that went before, don't assume its going to follow the same path - you point out "until the masses of evidence" - well where is the evidence that e-cigs will follow the same path as cigs ?
You either follow a scientific approach or not, don't bend it to your argument - its not pick and mix.
Once had a user who had been told that (as a previous user had damaged kit during a move) all IT moves had to be performed by my dept - I could see him lugging stuff about, then he sat for an hour and messed about as his mouse and keyboard wouldn't work. It was obvious he wouldn't come and ask me, so I watched him persevere until he had no other choice but to go and report it to his manager Tom.
Tom came over to me and asked if I'd have a look at it, and as a favour to him it did. I went over and started moving the keyboard from side to side on his desk and declared "yes - there is a problem with your mouse". He said "but.... that's the keyboard!!", I asked him "why did you plug it into the mouse port then???", at that point I turned and went back to my desk.
"don't educate.. enslave"
PMSL
the world CHOOSES Windows for 2 main reasons,
1) most people dont care how a computer works they just want to use it.
2) for me its mainly because of the vocal minions in the Linux community - there is nothing clever in making something complicated just because you can - click a button or type lines of case sensitive code to make something happen - give me the button every time.
The Linux community are the most unwelcoming arrogant bunch I have ever come across - I had a need to run Win 95 on a linux platform as a VM, I asked for help online and all I got was "why the hell would anyone...... M$ *&$!"$!"%" - BECAUSE I WANT OR NEED TO THATS WHY !!!!
I ask a question on an MS forum and (apart from the ones who always state the obvious) I usually have a sensible reply in a short time.
I bought a Pi because I wanted to learn, instead I got something that didnt work out of the box without me modifying my config file in my Win 7 laptop first. A platform that updates itself before it will let me in, not download the files in the background and then apply on reboot, and a platform that has commands that are so unforgiving they have to be in the right case, in the right place etc. etc.
You want people to embrace Linux - try getting of the high horses and actually help people, if your product is that good constant badmouthing the opposition wont mean a damn - and boy do I mean constant.
Ive been into PC's since the first ones hit desks early 80's, Ive always tried to make life easier for the people I support, and not once in all that time have I derided them for asking a question - cant say the same about every question Ive asked about Linux.
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