Woohoo!!!

If MS is so bad and Linux is so great, how come I am having and had so much
trouble mounting the floppy, cdrom and second hard drive and can't get
printers to work on the network. All of that happened almost automatically
with the Windows boxes. Maybe after I spend a bunch of time learning Linux
it will be easier but at this time it is a very user unfriendly system.


On Wednesday 21 November 2001 06:46 pm, you wrote:
> <snip>
>
> > I won't join in the thought that their software stinks -
> > it doesn't - there are some excellent features and they do keep
> > improving it and they usually work backwards and actually implement base
> > features by the second or third update/service release/service pack.
>
> </snip>
>
> I'm sorry. I know for a fact that MS software stinks. Sure there might be
> some individual applications from MS that run fine, but as a whole their
> software stinks. By software I also include the operating system.
>
> Some examples:
>
> The operating system (Win XP) sometimes refuses to recognize the usb mouse
> when starting the system. Never happens on my linux box.
>
> Win XP reboots the machine out of the blue (who knows why). My Linux box
> never does that...
>
> Internet Explorer is a security risk (can't be denied).
>
> IIS is a security risk (can't be denied). My apache logs during the last
> NIMDA outbreak were full of attempted IIS exploits. Sure you can get a
> patch from MS, but will it break IIS all together? There first patch for
> NIMDA did just that.
>
> Outlook - need I say anything about this one?
>
> I run Win95/98/NT4/2000/XP in the shop here for testing purposes. When it
> comes to real work I write code on my linux boxes and run servers on
> Solaris.
>
> Speaking of software. Win2k copied their tcp/ip stack code from BSD. So
> that is an example of good software.
>
> As for me, I will not pay money to Microsoft to be their alpha/beta tester.
>
> Just my 2 cents worth :)