Microsoft -- you will want to read this.

Boycott it. Why?

To all of you out there who are against globalization, and foreign markets, and believe everything should be usa made, remember you are a hyprocrite if you use Microsoft Windows, one of the richest countries in the world, and 90% of all computers comes with it on it, when there are more stable alternatives out there which charge no money and do the exact same thing, some with more features than you can imagine, at no cost to you.

 

also, mostly made in the u.s.a.

most of the codebase is made in the u.s. won't be for long, but, right now, redmond, is where it's at.

 

Get Linux!

 

linux

save an old computer [mine is 11 years old and lightning-fast] from the landfill

http://www.archlinux.org/
http://www.blagblagblag.org/
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/
http://www.dynebolic.org/
http://www.puppylinux.com/
http://www.slitaz.org/en/

linux

it's INTERNATIONAL

and it's FREE [leave a tip if you like the service]

 

I'll probably always stick with Windows. I've personally always liked MS.
Maybe the day Linux distros can come together and make a proper installer for programs, I'll consider making the switch. I just find it too confusing to install programs.

 

greenryder, you are promoting carlessness, is that not also difficult?

i know it is for me, on the northern plains

[snowing and windy today, i rode my one speed out to the junkyards to feed and water the stray cats]

yet i do it because it is the right thing to do

life is not always about taking the easy road

 

to install aMsn (MSN clone) - open synaptic> search "amsn"> click enter
to install skype - open synaptic>search "skype" > click enter
to install apache -open synaptic> search" apache" >click enter

not so difficult in my opinion, that covers about 95% of the stuff you'd want to install on Linux. some drivers are "difficult" to install (you will need to copy two or three commands from the internet) , but how many times in a computer's life you need to install drivers?

 

You forgot http://www.ubuntulinux.org/

 

on purpose

everyone knows about it already, and it sucks on older computers

 

partially true. dont try and use the lightweight version 'xubuntu' on something less than PII/256Mb ram.
on the other side, using seriously an older iron like some crappy Pentium 1 requires hand work... i used a pentium 1 200 mHz NON-MMX 128M RAM with a tailored-to the-machine kernel compiled on slackware 9 and it ran KDE 3 and openoffice 1.0.3 alright until the 2 Gb hard disk finally died and i tried xubuntu. the next step since then was to dismiss the dinosaur from year 1995 because it had the bad habit to go into "guru meditation" sessions of 2 minutes each time i tried to do anything more CPU-intensive than typing text. i have tried deli-linux and it sucks like shit.

 

Hi Wa Bluska, hop you're ok! Excuse me the probably unapropiate place to contct you. But I'm doing a blog (http://factor-zero.blogspot.com) with a pretentious purpose to "reconstruct" the punk history by the unknown band's history. One of these bands is Impatient Youth and a saw in another topic that ou are a friend of Bill Martin. As I don't have any information about this great band I woul like to know if you have a contact addres of Bill. Could you help me friend? My e-mail is: fz_factor-zero@hotmail.com
Thank you,

Cheers from a Brazilian old ex-hippie, ex-punk, ex-junk and still a underground culture lover....

 

Hi Wa Bluska, hope you're ok! Excuse me the probably unapropiate place to contact you. But I'm doing a blog (http://factor-zero.blogspot.com) with a pretentious purpose to "reconstruct" the punk history by the unknown band's history. One of these bands is Impatient Youth and a saw in another topic that you are a friend of Bill Martin. As I don't have any information about this great band I woul like to know if you have a contact addres of Bill. Could you help me friend? My e-mail is: fz_factor-zero@hotmail.com
Thank you,

Cheers from a Brazilian old ex-hippie, ex-punk, ex-junk and still a underground culture lover....:cheers2:

 

Yeah, I use Kubuntu Linux


Especially when it comes to home computers, don't know why anyone bothers with MS


You had to be a bit of a nerd 10 years ago to choose linux over MS, but the last couple of years some of the distros more user friendly than Vista - especially Suse or Ubuntu

 

Uh.. under Ubuntu, just open the "Add/Remove Programs" application, or download a deb archive. Just click it and it installs. No scripting, no hacking, no command line. Just click and go. Ubuntu has never crashed on me, to this day- and I beat the crap out of my system. It runs programs that an Intel Atom was never meant to run.

Oh yeah, Fireball, O*fice runs under Wine, along with a majority of the games out there. Also, OpenOffice can edit M*crosoft Of*ice files perfectly. Even though ODF is a million times better.


(sorry about this bump, I just saw this and wanted to add to this. Let's defeat M*crosoft!)

 

I have a half-dozen different flavors of Linux installed on my various machines. I only have one unit that "runs" Windoze (if you can call what any computer with Windoze on it does "running"), and I can't remember the last time I used it for anything other than a game.

The reality is that Linux is a full-featured, functional, stable operating system. And it's FREE.

Why would anyone use anything else?