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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Why do I need to run Linux again? Seriously
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JEDIDIAH wrote:
> On 2011-04-15, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> JEDIDIAH wrote:
>>
>>> Using vi to set <.......> would have been more difficult but *at least
>>> I could count on it to work as expected.*
>> I think that says it all.
> 
>    Any tool that doesn't do it's job is ultimately worthless.
> 
>    It doesn't matter how pretty it is.
> 
Indeed. Windows isn't an operating system. Its a crude standard to write 
programs against