Frank Stallone wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:01:15 -0400, Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>
>> So, you Linux loons have two choices.
>>
>> 1. Keep churning out one defective distribution after another. 2.
>> Figure out what is wrong with Linux and why average people are
>> willing to pay for Windows rather than use Linux and fix the problem
>> with a distribution that actually, totally, completely works.
>>
>> The ball is in your court.
>> And in fact it has been for the past 10+ years. The problem is, you
>> Linux boobs hide behind the freedom of choice flag and don't realize
>> that choice isn't really good when all the choices suck at the basic
>> level.
>
> Considering the intelligence of the current computer user and their
> interest in anything truly technical it's no wonder they rather buy a
> broken out of the box Windows machine from Wal-Mart than to even buy a
> decent Windows machine let alone buy something with Linux installed.

Why should everyone have to have a technical interest in operating systems?
They're nothing more than a necessary evil (except to tinkerers who see the
OS as the means to the end).


> Microsoft has made sure to dig its claws in deep so it's very hard to
> get rid of it and they're trying to do the same with consoles,
> servers and programming languages and even search and luckily they
> can't do it.

Good for them - that's their business model and they've been damn successful
at it. Apple is far worse.

And what makes you think it's easy to get rid of open source programs like
OpenOffice and MySQL and Gambas and Gimp - they have all kinds of quirks and
file formats that could make migrating off them a hassle.



> Their problem is that this isn't the beginning of the computing boom.
> There are too many good choices to stop them from gaining a monopoly
> hold outside of the desktop area.

They don't hold a monopoly on desktops, either.



> Consider how many people do use Windows as their OS. Now consider how
> many of them won't use MSN search (even though MS makes it a default
> on IE),

So? Google returns better results, and it has more mindshare and has a cool
image.


> use Zune

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/zune-sale...zon-322232.php


> or even use the 360.

The best-selling, best-titled game console. The Wii isn't a competitor for
the kind of people that play XBox/Playstation games.


> The Nintendo Wii is completely
> underpowered and has a lot of **** games yet it stomped all over MS
> and their red-ringing 360.

And it's at least $100 cheaper, and doesn't attract the same kind of gamer.

The XBox360 obliterated its competition (the PS3, or should I say the
Linux-based PS3 as various cola morons like to claim).



> If people loved MS so much

Who said that?


> why don't they buy into everything they create?

Many, many companies and people do. But like a typical dumb cola luser, you
try to pose it as a ridiculous all-or-nothing scenario: if everyone doesn't
embrace everything MS does and says and sells, it means MS is a failure.

Silly, weak-minded bozo.

And you named only two areas where MS is behind? What's really laughable
is, two is all you can name. In virtually every market they compete in,
they're very successful - if not #1 or #2.



> Or is it because Microsoft is ****

Nothing MS produces is **** (**** being relative to the available
alternatives).

On the other hand, OpenOffice Base and Gambas and Evolution...



> but it's nearly impossible
> to buy a reasonably price computer

What? How broke are you?

No wonder you're so shrill.



> (Macs are over priced)

Macs are insanely overpriced: my recent Microcenter flyer has a Macbook Pro
for $1900. It's about as powerful as the $1000 Vista/XP laptops in the same
flyer. iLife isn't worth $900.



> without
> Windows and most people only just barely understand Windows so they
> sure as hell aren't going to move to anything new.

Why should they? The Windows platform is plenty good enough, the Windows
ecosystem is superior, and the Linux ecosystem isn't nearly good enough.

The flexibility and decouple architecture is superior to Windows - but that
doesn't matter to anyone but a few of us geeks.


> And if Windows is so great why do you have to live in fear of Linux
> taking over and come here and argue against it?

Anyone who can read knows Linux has NO CHANCE of taking over. It's a waste
of time to even dream about it.


> If MS has no fear from Linux then why waste your valuable
> time coming here to be the world's biggest tit?

Maybe Moshe (and me and anyone else) just likes to argue and discuss
computer stuff.


> Do you troll other insignificant things like death from ant bites?

Nothing insignificant about operating systems. Most of us interact with
them 6-8 hours a day.