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This screams lock-in, then fantasy.

LOL, most corporate cubicle-drones don't know how to use Windows either!

"How do I fix the way my monitor looks? Everything is too small/large!" (resolution)

"How do I put something in the Start Menu thing?" (pin to start menu)

etc., etc.

. . . And all this in addition to the usual Windows-related complaints regarding sluggishness, freezes, lockups, and so on.

Ridiculous. Anyone who thinks that no software is free is absolutely delusional, especially since Microsoft themselves has a download center with... get this... lots of free software. Not that it doesn't benefit them for people to be using their software, but...

  • 2 weeks later...

how about we all email that karen with what we have in mind, maybe after getting 5k emails from people she will understand that we are not a small percentage of the population, in fact if no unix boxes where running at this moment the web sites would be cut to around 25%, and im still wondering how can any serious business run software that has "Automatic restart on failure, " ,"Run application ... on failure" and an error reporting module that runs more clocks then the app itself...

windows is a mass distributed , shove down your throat, sdk enabled platform where any 5 year old can write bad code and shove it again down our throats with the use of the internet.

Microsoft itself can't decide where to put libraries, windows/system32 system common or where else ?

Unix runs our world, breaks the limits of any os out there at the core level, hey guess what, MAC has OSX !!!.. i guess if you can't beat them join them..

Karen is just the perfect example i left school so young, worked 1 job for someone else, and then got my own companies up , all very successful, when you waste your time correcting teachers mistakes, grammar errors in a math class for example, and they answer we are not a language class, it shows at which level our education system is now at.

Lower scores requirements to push our students to higher levels of education just won't do it..

That teacher should be fired for one reason :

She stopped a children from evolution or learning, by taking away those disks., she has no place in a school nor with the mental or emotional devel of any child.

This goes against everything i fought for in college, i was doing a computer based course yet no one in my class had ever heard of linux, so i ordered 200 ubuntu CD's and set up a presentation in front of 137 people (Not sure if any actually installed it) and gave a demo, was very weird answering the questons of idiots, but was a good experience and hope i got through to someone.

This is what needs to happen in schools etc, people giving presentations about the power of linux

Edit: I have never used linux as a main OS just for the purpose of testing/learning (Or fixing corrupt HDD)

how about we all email that karen with what we have in mind, maybe after getting 5k emails from people she will understand that we are not a small percentage of the population...

And thus starts the knee-jerk reaction that serves no real positive benefit.

People will see angry *nix users flooding this lady's mailbox at work because of a misunderstanding. :no: Not the way to help put Open Source in a positive light.

And thus starts the knee-jerk reaction that serves no real positive benefit.

People will see angry *nix users flooding this lady's mailbox at work because of a misunderstanding. :no: Not the way to help put Open Source in a positive light.

yeah sorry your right, just, just ,hmm ,amazes me how closed minded she is. made me angry , but now i am laughing, ;)

yeah sorry your right, just, just ,hmm ,amazes me how closed minded she is. made me angry , but now i am laughing, ;)

This topic actually has a good update from the guy that posted the original blog entry.

https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=709232

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