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From: RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Windows Is A Great OS ... If Your Time Is Worth Nothing
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2025 13:51:19 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-02-24, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Feb 2025 12:06:09 -0500, CrudeSausage wrote:
>
>> On 2025-02-24 11:31 a.m., Joel wrote:
>>> CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
>>> 
>>>>> It's a computer.  But Linux on my system clearly demonstrates that it
>>>>> has won the game.
>>>>
>>>> On _your_ computer.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> What's stopping you from buying a computer exactly like mine?
>> 
>> I want a portable game machine. Is that what you own?
>
> You're a wonderful fit for Windows then. Well, except for the problem with 
> your Windows machine corrupting itself. 

Or going into an unrecoverable BSOD when you let it do a disk check. Nothing 
like Windows hobbyware when your time doesn't mean a thing to you. In 18 
years I've never had Linux not boot. Windows, on the other hand...

What is it about a disk check that could corrupt the Windows hobbyware OS? 
(And I've found that is not unique to me.)

-- 
“Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy 
what has been invented or made by the forces of good.”  —J.R.R. Tolkien