[PLUG] Linux vs. Windows: The rematch

[stuart mathews]

My two Linux boxes beat me up from time to time as well.  But I also use new
whiz-bang PCs running XP at work and at home, and I still get the same old crummy
problems I had  w/Windows 95a and NT.  Linux vs Windows, from from a pure desktop
user point of view? It's like having to chose between cream and suppositories.


But at least Linux is fun to tinker around with, turns an old PC into a nice
workstation, has compilers and such, etc., whereas Windoze is just a pain in
the ass and requires more and more money with every application you want.


>Rich Shepard wrote:
>> LINUX VS. WINDOWS: THE REMATCH
>>      (Source: PC World.com) Can a frustrated Windows user dump
>> Microsoft? Even with lots of improvements, Linux is still no
>> cakewalk.
>> http://www.linuxworld.com/go.cgi?id=741073
>
>Speaking as a Linux newbie, I'd have to agree with that. I've
>installed Linux on three machines already and after each effort I
>felt like I'd been rode hard and put away wet. But with a little
>help from friends and allies, all my machines are working. And I
>think it's good that learning Linux is hard. There's value in a bit
>of struggle.
>
>Me, I'll use both systems as long as they butter my bread and don't
>eat my lunch.
>
>- Bill Thoen
>
>"If this machine gave you the truth immediately, you would not
>recognize it, because your heart would not have been purified by the
>long quest."
>- Umberto Eco, "Focault's Pendulum"
>
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