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Re: Why all the hate for Linux?

From meat <meat.stretcher@linuxmail.org>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject Re: Why all the hate for Linux?
Date 2016-04-30 13:57 +0000
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On Sat, 30 Apr 2016 07:36:18 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

> meat wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
> 
>> On Fri, 29 Apr 2016 20:29:38 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>>
>>> meat wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>>> 
>>>> All I am seeing is dozens of messages with carefully concocted
>>>> situations where the deck is stacked against Linux.
>>> 
>>> You do?  What a surprise!  :-)
>>> 
>>>> Anyone with enough time on their hands could do the same for any
>>>> operating system. One of my professors called it the hammer syndrome.
>>>> When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
>>> 
>>> Most people don't have much in the way of imagination.  They can
>>> barely utilize the common hammer they've had access to all their
>>> lives.
>>
>> Wrong.
> 
> No, I am right.  At work, when something gets torqued on their Windows
> boxes (and this happens nearly daily to someone in the room in which I
> sit), every damn one of them (non-developers) whine helplessly and turn
> their machine over to the help desk.

You appear to be a Linux user and maybe some of them are as well so I 
wouldn't expect you to have Windows skills

And your other post about bleeding edge where you don't know that it's 
trivial to roll back a driver under Windows seems to confirm that.

Maybe your co-workers are similar?

-- 
Meat
Why do they call you Meat? Is it because you are so big?
Yep. You catch em and I'll stretch em.
My college nickname was "The Stretch-Her"

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Why all the hate for Linux? meat <meat.stretcher@linuxmail.org> - 2016-04-29 23:22 +0000
  Re: Why all the hate for Linux? Fabian Russell <fb@zen.info> - 2016-04-29 23:28 +0000
    Re: Why all the hate for Linux? meat <meat.stretcher@linuxmail.org> - 2016-04-29 23:39 +0000
      Re: Why all the hate for Linux? Fabian Russell <fb@zen.info> - 2016-04-29 23:54 +0000
        Re: Why all the hate for Linux? meat <meat.stretcher@linuxmail.org> - 2016-04-30 00:03 +0000
          Re: Why all the hate for Linux? Fabian Russell <fb@zen.info> - 2016-04-30 00:22 +0000
            Re: Why all the hate for Linux? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-04-29 21:18 -0400
              Re: Why all the hate for Linux? meat <meat.stretcher@linuxmail.org> - 2016-04-30 13:38 +0000
      Re: Why all the hate for Linux? Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2016-04-29 20:29 -0400
        Re: Why all the hate for Linux? meat <meat.stretcher@linuxmail.org> - 2016-04-30 00:56 +0000
          Re: Why all the hate for Linux? Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2016-04-30 07:36 -0400
            Re: Why all the hate for Linux? meat <meat.stretcher@linuxmail.org> - 2016-04-30 13:57 +0000
              Re: Why all the hate for Linux? Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2016-04-30 14:11 -0400
                Re: Why all the hate for Linux? meat <meat.stretcher@linuxmail.org> - 2016-04-30 20:21 +0000
                Re: Why all the hate for Linux? Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2016-04-30 17:22 -0400
                Re: Why all the hate for Linux? meat <meat.stretcher@linuxmail.org> - 2016-05-01 04:15 +0000
                Re: Why all the hate for Linux? Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2016-05-01 06:34 +0200
                Re: Why all the hate for Linux? meat <meat.stretcher@linuxmail.org> - 2016-05-01 04:45 +0000
                Re: Why all the hate for Linux? chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2016-05-02 08:22 -0500
                Re: Why all the hate for Linux? -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2016-05-02 07:20 -0700
                Re: Why all the hate for Linux? meat <meat.stretcher@linuxmail.org> - 2016-05-02 14:50 +0000
                Re: Why all the hate for Linux? Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2016-05-02 20:41 -0400
                Re: Why all the hate for Linux? meat <meat.stretcher@linuxmail.org> - 2016-05-03 01:28 +0000
                Re: Why all the hate for Linux? Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2016-05-03 05:25 -0400
                Re: Why all the hate for Linux? chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2016-05-03 06:58 -0500
                Re: Why all the hate for Linux? meat <meat.stretcher@linuxmail.org> - 2016-05-03 13:01 +0000
                Re: Why all the hate for Linux? Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2016-05-03 10:43 -0400
                Re: Why all the hate for Linux? chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2016-05-03 07:49 -0500
                Re: Why all the hate for Linux? meat <meat.stretcher@linuxmail.org> - 2016-05-03 12:59 +0000
                Re: Why all the hate for Linux? Steve Carroll <fretwizzen@gmail.com> - 2016-05-02 19:04 -0700
                Re: Why all the hate for Linux? Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2016-05-01 07:12 -0400
                Re: Why all the hate for Linux? meat <meat.stretcher@linuxmail.org> - 2016-05-01 13:17 +0000
            Re: Why all the hate for Linux? -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2016-04-30 09:38 -0700
              Re: Why all the hate for Linux? meat <meat.stretcher@linuxmail.org> - 2016-04-30 16:38 +0000
                Re: Why all the hate for Linux? Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2016-04-30 14:12 -0400
                Re: Why all the hate for Linux? -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2016-04-30 13:10 -0700
                Re: Why all the hate for Linux? meat <meat.stretcher@linuxmail.org> - 2016-04-30 20:24 +0000
                Re: Why all the hate for Linux? Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2016-04-30 17:23 -0400
          Re: Why all the hate for Linux? ronb <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2016-04-30 23:35 +0000
            Re: Why all the hate for Linux? Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2016-05-01 07:20 -0400
              Re: Why all the hate for Linux? meat <meat.stretcher@linuxmail.org> - 2016-05-01 13:24 +0000
                Re: Why all the hate for Linux? ronb <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2016-05-01 16:51 +0000
              Re: Why all the hate for Linux? ronb <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2016-05-01 16:47 +0000
                Re: Why all the hate for Linux? meat <meat.stretcher@linuxmail.org> - 2016-05-01 16:52 +0000
                Re: Why all the hate for Linux? owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2016-05-01 20:40 +0000
                Re: Why all the hate for Linux? Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2016-05-01 13:45 -0700
                Re: Why all the hate for Linux? owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2016-05-01 21:02 +0000
                Re: Why all the hate for Linux? meat <meat.stretcher@linuxmail.org> - 2016-05-01 22:40 +0000
                Re: Why all the hate for Linux? owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2016-05-01 22:54 +0000
            Re: Why all the hate for Linux? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-05-01 16:44 -0400
  Re: Why all the hate for Linux? Me Sham <osirus47@yahoo.com> - 2016-04-29 19:31 -0700
  Drop dead, Snit! John Gohde <john.h.gohde@gmail.com> - 2016-04-30 05:33 -0700
  Re: Why all the hate for Linux? 7 <7@enemygadgets.com> - 2016-04-30 14:11 +0000

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