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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 00:56 +0000
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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.
People have wonderful imaginations and social media is a perfect example 
of that. The point that you missed is that anyone can concoct a scenario 
where their side will win. Using the hammer example a person could 
concoct a situation where a backyard picnic table has a loose leg. The 
leg is held by nails and one of them backed out. Given a hammer, it's 
trivial to fix. Given a screwdriver, not so much. However if the leg was 
screwed in then the person with the screwdriver could concoct a similar 
scenario where he would have the advantage.

That is what is going on with these pee-pee-pee threads. 
They are pointless because one can set up a situation where any operating 
system or piece of software will have the advantage.
And when these scenarios get coupled with statements implying that these 
are typical tasks that users are interested in performing it becomes even 
more ridiculous.
I read the recipe thread and truthfully laughed my ass off. I'm a fairly 
typical user and I have never had a situation even remotely similar to 
what that chap was claiming to be common tasks.

And that assessment leads right back to a carefully concocted experiment 
where the deck is loaded against Linux.  



-- 
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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