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Linux: Hasta la Vista, Microsoft!

Posted by salparadise on · 9 comments
The Independant; By Jimmy Lee Shreeve 		Mail this story
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It's faster than Windows, it fights viruses – and it's free. (Ok, Ok, I know some of you are already reaching for the keyboard to rattle off a correction. Stay thine hand a little longer and read on...)

"Unless you use an Apple Mac – or you're a particularly dedicated geek – your computer almost certainly runs a version of Microsoft Windows. There's little choice in the matter; almost all consumer PCs come with Windows already installed. Can you be bothered to change that?"
But now, this stranglehold has been broken. Dell, one of the global giants that supplies businesses and homes with PCs, is selling some of its PCs with Linux, a rival operating system, already installed.
Linux makes your computer run quicker, it doesn't crash, it doesn't catch anywhere near as many viruses, and it's free. For a decade, it was available only for people to install themselves. But now, the geek's favourite is coming to the masses.



This is a pro Linux story in one of the UK "broadsheet" papers (they're called broadsheets to distinguish them from the tabloids - the journalistic styles and contents are at opposite ends of the scale. Tabloids for porn/loan ads, sport and the most awfully written, often racist, misinformed propaganda and the broadsheets for the middle class equivalents).



There are some dangerously simple assumptions in this article and it appears to have been written by someone with less than perfect understanding of Linux and IT in general. Never-the-less it's publicity and not bad publicity at that.



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Comments (9)

ex-law enforcement officer 'murders' vista ... ;-P

henke54 ·
Quoting:July 7th, 2007

Friday night in Columbia South Carolina, ex-law enforcement officer Ray Jackson lost his temper while trying to repair his girlfriend’s computer. After installing Windows Vista on the girlfriend’s 2 year old computer Jackson was trying to get some of her older programs to work with the new operating system. “He couldn’t get anything to work like it was supposed to”, said girlfriend Wanda White. “He just kept screaming at it and smacking the side of the computer”. White had heard enough cursing from her boyfriend and went next door to her friend’s apartment. After about 20 minutes White and her friend heard gun shots from the apartment where Jackson was working. “We both ran over there to see what was happening”, said White. When she opened the door there sat Jackson with his pistol in his hand. He had just shot the computer 5 times and missed once. The miss had gone into the neighbors apartment and the bullet was lodged into their refrigerator.Jackson is being held at the Corrections Department of S.C. His bail hearing will be held Monday morning.Courtesy of The State Paper.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=539962
Sander_Marechal ·
Perhaps he can claim self defense? At the very least temporary insanity :-)
Abe ·
It sounds like he installed Linux and was trying to get Windows apps. installed on it. Can some one verify?

Is Vista so different from XP or that bad? I hope it doesn't catch on!

Sander_Marechal ·
Quoting: Is Vista so different from XP or that bad?


What rock have you been living on since december 2006?
salparadise Story submitter ·
Vista is even worse than Windows 95.
Sander_Marechal ·
They don't call it "Me too" (a.k.a. ME two) for nothing :-) It's as buggy as ME and only offers features that were long ago implemented by other OSes (e.g. Aero).
Abe ·
Quoting:What rock have you been living on since december 2006?


Actually under the XP rock. :)

dinotrac ·
>Actually under the XP rock

XP was like a giant false alarm. After all the product-activation crap, etc, XP actually turned out to be...OK. Certainly better than many a Windows version before it.

Vista seems determined to live up to the hype, just not Microsoft's hype.

Cunsumentenbond creates Windows Vista complaint hotline

henke54 ·
Quoting:It seems as if the Dutch are tired of Microsoft's finest breaking all the time, and they've set up a hotline for consumers complaining about Windows Vista.
http://www.t3.co.uk/news/247/general/hasta_la_vista,_baby

Quoting:Meanwhile, Dutch consumers association Consumentenbond has received 4,200 complaints about the new Microsoft computer system Windows Vista over the past four weeks. In 59% of cases, old programmes no longer work. Some 46% of complaints focus on problems with printers and other add-ons.
http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2007/09/computers_now_...

http://news.google.com/news?hl=nl&ned=nl_be&ie=UTF-8&ncl=113...

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