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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: What programs do you make sure are installed on a new Linux
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Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2024 10:32:16 +0100
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On 10/07/2024 10:25, Borax Man wrote:
> On 2024-07-09, Popping Mad <rainbow@colition.gov> wrote:
>> On 7/8/24 10:10 AM, candycanearter07 wrote:
>>> Well, if you grew up with it, there would be a huge learning curve
>>> moving to Linux..
>>
>>
>> That is bullshit.  You think it is easy to get Windows to do ANYTHING?
>> That was never true, not even before ximian, and it is still not true.
>>
> 
> I agree, Windows was quite difficult too.  Back in the Windows 95/98
> days I had to reinstall a few times, because of viruses and corruption.
> I remember having corrupted registries, vague GDI errors, things I
> didn't know how to fix.  I remember people having problems with Windows,
> coming to me for help because I did "know computers", but still being
> stuck.
> 
> Windows is easy when it works, but when it stuffed up, it was just as
> difficult.

Windows had two advantages
- it came pre installed and the shop knew how to reinstall it
- many more people knew how to fix its current problems

It needed them because right from when I switched over in Win98 it was a 
lot less stable, and quirky and virus prone.

But all these comparisons with linux are fairly pointless. People who 
run Windows do so for other reasons.

-- 
I was brought up to believe that you should never give offence if you 
can avoid it; the new culture tells us you should always take offence if 
you can. There are now experts in the art of taking offence, indeed 
whole academic subjects, such as 'gender studies', devoted to it.

Sir Roger Scruton