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Re: "Today a teacher laughed at me for using Ubuntu."

From rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject Re: "Today a teacher laughed at me for using Ubuntu."
Date 2022-09-18 11:48 -0600
Message-ID <jop3vhFdophU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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On 09/18/2022 09:39 AM, DFS wrote:
> On 9/17/2022 9:36 PM, 5GyYap52yQ1UGMWD wrote:
>> DFS <nospam@dfs.com> writes:
>>
>>> https://www.quora.com/Today-a-teacher-laughed-at-me-for-using-Ubuntu-What-stereotypes-are-associated-with-Ubuntu-users
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> It was wrong of the teacher to laugh at you.  They should've flunked
>>> you for promoting bad software, had your parents arrested for child
>>> abuse, then placed you into the Linux-to-prison pipeline where you
>>> could be mentored by Hans Reiser, who's doing time for strangling his
>>> wife.
>>>
>>> Linux: when you really want to be locked in.
>>>
>>
>> I would never laugh at someone using a different operating system as I
>> am.
>
>
> A Linux OS that boots to a command prompt in an xterm is worth a chuckle.
>
> https://scarygliders.net/wpcontent/uploads/2011/12/DefaultXterm.png
>
>
> 'Cause nothing screams 'Good times ahead' more than a Linux command prompt.

It took a while but I've gotten to like Windows Terminal. You can have 
multiple tabs with Command Prompt, PowerShell, and a bash shell from 
your wsl Kali Linux.

With Win10, Microsoft finally came up with working virtual desktops. 
It's almost becoming a workable OS.

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"Today a teacher laughed at me for using Ubuntu." DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2022-09-17 11:29 -0400
  Re: "Today a teacher laughed at me for using Ubuntu." "Alvin P. Picker" <app@gnu.rocks> - 2022-09-17 16:35 +0000
  Re: "Today a teacher laughed at me for using Ubuntu." "Alvin P. Picker" <app@gnu.rocks> - 2022-09-17 18:08 +0000
  Re: "Today a teacher laughed at me for using Ubuntu." "Alvin P. Picker" <app@gnu.rocks> - 2022-09-17 20:57 +0000
    Re: "Today a teacher laughed at me for using Ubuntu." DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2022-09-18 11:12 -0400
  Re: "Today a teacher laughed at me for using Ubuntu." 5GyYap52yQ1UGMWD <ehj46PkBWfBAng9C@VW28LtWn6wknpUMV.invalid> - 2022-09-18 09:36 +0800
    Re: "Today a teacher laughed at me for using Ubuntu." Siri Cruise <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2022-09-17 22:26 -0700
      Re: "Today a teacher laughed at me for using Ubuntu." 5GyYap52yQ1UGMWD <ehj46PkBWfBAng9C@VW28LtWn6wknpUMV.invalid> - 2022-09-18 17:13 +0800
    Re: "Today a teacher laughed at me for using Ubuntu." DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2022-09-18 11:39 -0400
      Re: "Today a teacher laughed at me for using Ubuntu." rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2022-09-18 11:48 -0600
        Re: "Today a teacher laughed at me for using Ubuntu." DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2022-09-18 15:12 -0400
          Re: "Today a teacher laughed at me for using Ubuntu." rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2022-09-18 17:30 -0600
        Re: "Today a teacher laughed at me for using Ubuntu." DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2022-11-01 11:51 -0400
          Windows Terminal Tweaks (was: Re: "Today a teacher laughed at me for using Ubuntu." vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2022-11-01 17:09 +0000
            Re: Windows Terminal Tweaks (was: Re: "Today a teacher laughed at me for using Ubuntu." DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2022-11-02 10:00 -0400
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                Re: I mount my .5 TB NTFS thumb drive on my new 75 $ Amazon Fire. DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2022-11-03 11:39 -0400
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      Re: "Today a teacher laughed at me for using Ubuntu." 5GyYap52yQ1UGMWD <ehj46PkBWfBAng9C@VW28LtWn6wknpUMV.invalid> - 2022-09-19 07:00 +0800
        Re: "Today a teacher laughed at me for using Ubuntu." DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2022-09-19 11:35 -0400
          Re: "Today a teacher laughed at me for using Ubuntu." 5GyYap52yQ1UGMWD <ehj46PkBWfBAng9C@VW28LtWn6wknpUMV.invalid> - 2022-09-20 07:44 +0800
            Re: "Today a teacher laughed at me for using Ubuntu." DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2022-09-20 09:07 -0400
              Re: "Today a teacher laughed at me for using Ubuntu." 5GyYap52yQ1UGMWD <ehj46PkBWfBAng9C@VW28LtWn6wknpUMV.invalid> - 2022-09-20 23:32 +0800
            Re: "Today a teacher laughed at me for using Ubuntu." chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2022-09-21 07:12 -0500
              Re: "Today a teacher laughed at me for using Ubuntu." Dkjgkgjhsvb <dj@linux.rocks> - 2022-09-21 13:04 +0000
                Re: "Today a teacher laughed at me for using Ubuntu." chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2022-09-21 16:48 -0500
                Re: "Today a teacher laughed at me for using Ubuntu." Dkjgkgjhsvb <dj@linux.rocks> - 2022-09-22 15:07 +0000
                Re: "Today a teacher laughed at me for using Ubuntu." DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2022-11-21 15:28 -0500

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