On Wed, 2012-07-25 at 13:18 +0200, Oliver Kraitschy wrote: > On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:20:57AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > Is there the need to talk about Windows? XP is stable, just most XP > > users are unexperienced, so they break their XPs, but for such computer > > users a Linux won't work, since it needs too much tweaking to get a > > Linux run, hence a borked XP anyway is better than a Linux that > > completely doesn't work. However, XP will be dropped soon. Or is it > > already dropped by Microsoft? Btw. 98SE already is stable. Newer Windows > > might be unstable, I dunno. For me it's important that Microsoft and > > Apple are unethical companies. Unfortunately XP doesn't run that good on > > VBox and I'm not willing to install it directly to my computer again. > > But we should keep in mind, that some software only is available for > > Microsoft and Apple. And how many users are willing to stand the > > roughness and all the rules of Linux communities? There are also such > > forums for Windows, but you also will find many forums where old women > > are allowed to ask the same stupid questions again and again and even > > top posting and HTML for emails are allowed. > > Registry indeed is a PITA, however, on Linux we've got pulseaudio, KDE4 > > GNOME3. Who cares? Comparing OS is useless. Splitting /etc/rc.conf has > > less to do with something Windows-like. > > Hello Ralf, > > sorry, i just wanted to correct some statements which are simply not correct and just OS bashing. > > Greetings, > > Oliver I understand Heiko and I understand you. Comparing OS as examples, to what could happen, sometimes could be helpful. Correcting mistakes then also could be useful.
