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Re: Why all the hate for Linux?

From Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject Re: Why all the hate for Linux?
Date 2016-04-30 07:36 -0400
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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.

> 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.

True, but those are simple common tools.  Computers are not simple tools,
though they are common.  And even though they are common, only a few have
the imagination to even think they can figure out the problem on their own.

> That is what is going on with these pee-pee-pee threads. 

Those are simply childish idiocy purveyed by mentally-ill individuals.

> 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.

Once a person has demonstrated himself to be a persistent asshole, I have no
interest in interacting directly with that person.

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

Of course.  That's what corporate shills and obsessive k00ks do.

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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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