[ale] Kind words for Windows? - was The latest from Gigabyte

[Ron Frazier]

Apple and Oracle are now at least as high on my EVIL list as Microsoft.

Not for technology, but for business policies.

Ron

On 02/08/2011 11:38 PM, arxaaron wrote:
> On 2011/02/08, at 22:06 , Tim Watts wrote:
>
>    
>> Just my 2¢:
>>
>> Looking for a windows experience in Linux is just a recipe for
>> disappointment and frustration.
>>      
>
> I'm still waiting for any kind of a "windisease" experience to
> stop being a nauseating sickness long enough to reach the
> pleasure I found in using my 1987 Amiga.
> :-) :-P :-)
>
> It wasn't until 1998 that Linux got close enough to the Amiga
> experience that I could comfortably make the switch. The
> windisease offerings are still a failure.
>
> My every experience touching Mafia$oft products has been
> a nightmare of massive frustration at their ineptitude and
> incompetence and bloat and greed driven user abusiveness
> found at every level there.
>
> If I have to use proprietary systems, then at least let them be
> as intelligent and stable and consistent as Mac OSeX. (And
> I do have to use a lot of proprietary tools for my video production
> work thanks to the corporaped world of proprietary digital
> media formats).
>
> I'm not only certain that windisease has never been deserving
> of any kind words, I'm holding out that kind words for windisease
> don't even exist, just as we've never found any kind words for
> cancer.
>
> peace
> aaron
>
> [snip]
>
>
>
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