Re: Fw: interesting reply

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>I thought you all might get a kick out of this "professional's" reply to a
>message I posted.

>Are you insane?
>First of all.. all OS's have their ideosyncracies and occasional problems.
>It doesnt mean the OS is crap.

Well, I'd have to object to calling something "crap" in a serious conversation.  But catagorizing all problems as "ideosyncracies and occasional problems" (as he is doing implicitly) is just as ridiculous.  Why not just use CP/M,  it's lack of a GUI is a mere ideosyncracy, and that flat 16 bit memory model only causes occasional problems.

>Second, Linux is absolutely horrible for the typical windows user, or any

So is windows,  lets replace "typical windows user" with "typical user".  This is not a good group of people to use as a judge of ANYTHING.

>new computer user in general. It is hands-down the most needlessly
>complicated, backward pain in the ass OS I have ever had the misfortune of
>encountering(and Im an IT professional).

"Backward" would explain my Mac OS X is moving to a UNIX based infrastructure?

>And I am talkin about the relatively mainstream/supported Redhat.

I thank him for mentioning the specific version that he tried personally. (Vagueness always makes me wonder if these guys are reciting Ziff-Davis articles).

>if you are a *nix techie, you can do Linux easy. If you are not, you should
>stay the hell away from it.

Always remember, the impervious-to-corruption Windows registry is VERY user friendly.

>Not to mention software and hardware support/availability is several
>magnitudes of order better on win9x versus any kind of Linux.

For hardware support this is true,  for software see http://www.freshmeat.net

>Make half your hardware paperwieghts.. just install linux!

My IBM Netfinities will hold down plenty of paper and compute at the same time, its called Multitasking.