scott_R
06-24-2003, 11:03 PM
Okay, I seem to be making headway here, but not much. MY favorite microslave has seen Knoppix at work on his own beloved computer. After an intense search of his drive to be sure Linux didn't "infect" his box, he seemed to be satisfied.
Unfortunately, the stakes were raised. Now, he insists that linux is pointless because the knoppix cd wouldn't allow him to run his off the wall benchmarks to see which was faster. (This means playing games, to him, and because knoppix includes only basic games, linux isn't any good.)
Unlike before, windows may not be better, but it's what "everybody uses". I feel guilt at this, because I'm the jerk that got him started in computers, but now he insists that he's master digital, or something similar.
That's beside the point. Actually, there's no point to this post, except to mention that no matter the improvements in linux, MSer's only see the billions in MS's somewhat twisted accounting practices. Innovations don't matter. MS will crush all, like they always have in the past, and Linux is just next in line.
Eventually, all will be MS, and there is no point even bothering with another OS. It's sick to me, but I'm a linux fan, because Linux made my work enjoyable again. MS just tried to minimize (in factory terms, QS9000) my skills to replace experience with a peice of high priced software. (Ironically, this is the same claim they hold against Open Source, that it will commoditize software, making intelligent people pointless.)
The killer point was that despite the fact that Mozilla rendered his needed web pages perfectly (while IE rendered them at half-screen size), despite the fact that I can run Knoppix off a damn cd, all he can do it complain about what it can't do, mostly because Linux isn't MS. (He didn't know what OpenGL was, directx is the only "standard" graphics language).
Sorry for the rant, but you folks are probably used to it by now. I'm mostly blowing off steam because I want to help my friend, but he refuses to even look at Linux.
Unfortunately, the stakes were raised. Now, he insists that linux is pointless because the knoppix cd wouldn't allow him to run his off the wall benchmarks to see which was faster. (This means playing games, to him, and because knoppix includes only basic games, linux isn't any good.)
Unlike before, windows may not be better, but it's what "everybody uses". I feel guilt at this, because I'm the jerk that got him started in computers, but now he insists that he's master digital, or something similar.
That's beside the point. Actually, there's no point to this post, except to mention that no matter the improvements in linux, MSer's only see the billions in MS's somewhat twisted accounting practices. Innovations don't matter. MS will crush all, like they always have in the past, and Linux is just next in line.
Eventually, all will be MS, and there is no point even bothering with another OS. It's sick to me, but I'm a linux fan, because Linux made my work enjoyable again. MS just tried to minimize (in factory terms, QS9000) my skills to replace experience with a peice of high priced software. (Ironically, this is the same claim they hold against Open Source, that it will commoditize software, making intelligent people pointless.)
The killer point was that despite the fact that Mozilla rendered his needed web pages perfectly (while IE rendered them at half-screen size), despite the fact that I can run Knoppix off a damn cd, all he can do it complain about what it can't do, mostly because Linux isn't MS. (He didn't know what OpenGL was, directx is the only "standard" graphics language).
Sorry for the rant, but you folks are probably used to it by now. I'm mostly blowing off steam because I want to help my friend, but he refuses to even look at Linux.