[Leaplist] Linux Advocasy: What they'll miss

[Damien McKenna]

On May 8, 2008, at 10:58 AM, Steve Litt wrote:
> My experience with Windows machines is I had to defrag every month  
> or so, and
> once a year I had to do a prophylactic format/reinstall, after which  
> the
> machine would run faster and more crash free. I had this experience  
> for
> Win3.0 thru W98. I've never used NT, 2K, XP or Vista.


Just to (once again) reiterate the point that Windows 9x is a  
completely different beast to the Windows NT descendants (i.e. NT,  
2000, XP, Vista), it's like comparing Linux 0.x with a modern day  
distro.  As such you really can't say that you "know Windows" when  
your only basis for comparison is ten years old, I might as well start  
saying that I hate Linux because RH 5 "sucked".  Given that many  
people on this mailing list have been pointing this out for half a  
decade, it would do everyone well to remember this salient point  
rather than rehashing irrelevant non-issues.

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Damien McKenna - Husband, father, geek.
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