[Coco] RELIC: 4..... Fedora 6 DVD ISO & Linux in General: 92

[Boisy Pitre]

This list is becoming more and more irrelevant to me by the day.

Yesterday I posted a CoCo related topic in the midst of this sewage,  
and got three responses.  To date, there are 92 responses to the  
Fedora 6 thread.

Where is the relevance?  The reverence?  The adherence to the spirit  
of this list?  And now this thread has degraded into some pretty  
nasty name calling, just short of all-out vulgarity.

To each their own about Linux, Windows, OS X, etc.  I know John  
Linville personally, and consider him a friend.  I suspect because of  
his affiliation with RedHat, he decided to dispel certain assumptions  
and myths that were being perpetrated in messages.  I understand his  
frustration.

That said, this thread needs to die, along with the kind of trash  
talk below.

Boisy


On May 4, 2007, at 8:40 PM, Mark McDougall wrote:

> John W. Linville bent over and this came out:
>
> WTF is your problem?
>
>> So, Linux is "work", because you can't remember where to find your  
>> browser icons?  But you can find them alright on Windows?  That is  
>> pathetic.
>
> No, you're so busy looking down your nose that you've missed the  
> point entirely. That you equate usability of an OS to being able to  
> locate icons on a desktop - now _that_ is pathetic! I guess that's  
> the depth of your knowledge... you should be thankful for modern  
> Linux disto's and their automated installation scripts....
>
>> Again, you set a double standard for Linux.  You don't use it  
>> regularly,
>> but you expect it to just magically be familiar.  You run it on  
>> your 800
>> MHz throw-away laptop, but run Vista (guessing) on a brand new  
>> box.  You
>> don't maintain your Vista box, but feel enslaved to maintenance on  
>> your
>> Linux box.  You apparently can't find the browser icons on the KDE
>> desktop, but they are somehow plainly obvious to you on Vista.
>
> I don't "expect" anything of the sort you moron. I made no such  
> complaints - I merely stated the fact that because _I_ don't use it  
> regularly, it becomes more of a chore for _me_ to use it. Just like  
> the fact that I pick up the guitar once every 6 months - I don't  
> "magically expect" to be able to play it and I don't "complain"  
> that it's a crappy instrument that's too hard to play. Pull your  
> head in idiot!
>
> And for the record, I wouldn't touch Vista with a 10-foot clown pole.
>
>> Look, if you just want to use Vista then that is fine with me.  
>> Just don't
>> "down" Linux as an excuse.  At least complain about the things  
>> that are
>> real problems.
>
> Not _once_ in my entire posting did I "down" Linux. Perhaps English  
> isn't your first language? What part of "I love Linux and what it  
> stands for" don't you understand?
>
> Oh and I'm eternally grateful that you've deigned to allow me to  
> "want to use Vista". A thousand thank-you's.
>
> As for complaining about "real problems" - I think you're one of  
> them. Looking back through your posts I can't find any useful  
> contribution you've made to this newsgroup - or indeed one that  
> doesn't mention "Linux". Why are you even here? P*ss off from Coco  
> newsgroups and tout your crap elsewhere.
>
> Troll...
>
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