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Re: Man accidentally deletes his entire company

From Silver Slimer <linux@shit.is>
Newsgroups alt.privacy.anon-server, alt.comp.os.windows-10, comp.os.linux.advocacy, sbay.linux, alt.os.linux
Subject Re: Man accidentally deletes his entire company
Date 2016-04-15 09:01 -0400
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On 2016-04-15 8:31 AM, Omar wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Apr 2016 05:50:19 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>
>> Ed Mullen wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>>
>>> On 4/14/2016 9:47 PM, Ed Mullen's fingers rattled off:
>>>
>>> <snip for brevity>
>>>
>>> In the case of the Dell, you can find, via Googling, the right drivers,
>>> after a lot of work.  And the file that tells you what order to install
>>> all the crap in order to not screw up the whole thing.  But it ain't
>>> easy to find.
>>>
>>> Stupid.  Any desktop PC I've had over the decades has been very generic
>>> in that regard.  If I didn't travel I'd never buy another laptop.  Every
>>> one I've ever owned has had the same problem. Proprietary drivers and
>>> such.  A real pain in the ass.  Whereas, every desktop system could be
>>> wiped and re-installed from scratch and MS found and installed all the
>>> right drivers. Laptops?  NOT!
>>>
>>> Oh well.  It's a hobby.  Hobbies are supposed to require work, right?
>>
>> No, hobbies are supposed to require *fun*.  Hence, I use Linux (albeit in a
>> professional capacity as well).
>
> 1. Linux is a great hobby. You can spend hours, weeks, months trying
> to make Linux work. Excellent way to avoid yard work.

I would rather do yard work. At least it rewards you with vegetables, a 
nice-looking grass or beautiful flowers. Linux only rewards you with 
mediocrity.

> 2. You earn your living with Windows. Take away the Windows portion
> and you would have no job. Take away what Little you use Linux for in
> your employment and your productivity would increase 100 percent or
> more.

Windows creates employment, Linux creates problems.

>> Laptop rivers are actually less of an issue with Linux, since the kernel
>> is usually very up-to-date with all of the latest hardware and firmware.
>
> Has Linux finally fixed suspend, hibernate, power management yet?

ROFL, no. It's coming... in 30 years.

>> There are often some minor sticking points, such as mapping functions to the
>> idiot keys (backlight control, touchpad control) that vendors seem to want
>> to use to differentiate themselves from other vendors.  On this ASUS
>> laptop, some of those keys work out of the box.  Others, I've had to remap
>> myself.  But no missing drivers.
>
> Those aren't "sticking points" as you call them.
> They are features that you paid for and that work 100 percent out of
> the box. At least as along as you aren't using Linux of course.
>
> Linux is like buying a car loaded with options and then learning only
> 1/2 of what you paid for actually works.

Like a Chrysler.


-- 
Silver Slimer
The silver-tongued heel

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Re: Man accidentally deletes his entire company Jeremy Bentham <nobody@anemone.mooo.com> - 2016-04-15 01:15 +0200
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    Re: Man accidentally deletes his entire company Omar <omarsayeed@linuxmail.org> - 2016-04-14 20:38 -0400
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          Re: Man accidentally deletes his entire company Omar <omarsayeed@linuxmail.org> - 2016-04-15 08:31 -0400
            Re: Man accidentally deletes his entire company Silver Slimer <linux@shit.is> - 2016-04-15 09:01 -0400
            Re: Man accidentally deletes his entire company Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2016-04-15 13:49 +0000
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                Re: Man accidentally deletes his entire company Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2016-04-15 14:04 +0000
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                Re: Man accidentally deletes his entire company sbd <sbd.pambu@safe-mail.net> - 2016-04-15 20:39 -0300
                Re: Man accidentally deletes his entire company chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2016-04-18 07:26 -0500
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                Re: Man accidentally deletes his entire company Amal Shookup <cheapelvis@invalid.invalid> - 2016-04-15 20:18 -0600
                Re: Man accidentally deletes his entire company chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2016-04-18 07:49 -0500
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                Re: Man accidentally deletes his entire company Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2016-04-15 19:17 -0400
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                Re: Man accidentally deletes his entire company JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2016-04-20 15:37 -0500
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                Re: Man accidentally deletes his entire company Omar <omarsayeed@linuxmail.org> - 2016-04-15 20:27 -0400
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                Re: Man accidentally deletes his entire company Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> - 2016-04-17 08:48 +0200
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    Re: Man accidentally deletes his entire company Anonymous - 2016-04-15 09:28 -0400
    Re: Man accidentally deletes his entire company Mark Lloyd <not@mail.invalid> - 2016-04-15 13:04 -0500
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        Re: Man accidentally deletes his entire company Ed Mullen <ejEMOVER@edmullen.net> - 2016-04-15 20:12 -0400
          Re: Man accidentally deletes his entire company musika <mUs1Ka@NOSPAMexcite.com> - 2016-04-17 14:07 +0100
  Re: Man accidentally deletes his entire company Big Al <Big_Al@invalid.com> - 2016-04-15 13:53 -0400
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