| Jacob Oost 2005-04-07, 5:54 pm |
| Sir Chewbury Gubbins wrote:
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> Arguable, yes, but only at the expense of stability and robustness. It's
> a well known adage that when a BSD developer writes a device driver he
> starts grokking the hardware. The linux developer starts by writing a 3D
> accelerated swoopy installer with transparency effects and phong shading
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Ah, I see the BSD propaganda has been sufficiently lodged into your head.
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Why?
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> I use consoles for playing games.
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The PC had a run of great games in the 90s that is unparalleled on any
system, I include the NES and SNES in that.
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> What a load of bollocks. There are a lot of hobbyists and tinkerers
> *playing* with linux and reinstalling every five minutes, sure. Mac
> users tend to use the machine to perform a task, rather than as
> something to tinker with.
NOT bollocks. IDC says Linux became the number 2 desktop OS in 2003,
and should have 6% of the desktop OS market in 2007.
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> Until, of course, the gui tool doesn't work properly, at which point you
> realise the much vaunted linux filesystem standard is a beast of myth.
Geez, you Apple people tick me off, you're so ignorant of anything that
isn't Apple.
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