Let's face it. Windows does do some thing better.

[James Diehl]

I don't do the dual-boot either!  I have three drives
set up in this old Compaq.  I have one with XP Pro,
for school and MS products, one with Ubuntu for having
some serious fun and learning to develop GUI's and
such for it, and one with SUSE, so I can learn the
enterprise versions for it.  I'm a CNS and IT student,
so I need to learn as much as I can about all systems
so I can work with them for companies/schools/org's. 
Whatever I can learn, will be to my advantage when I
graduate!  Whether it's networking, administration,
developing, or whatever!  Having some fun along the
way doesn't hurt a thing!!!
Diehl, James

--- ulrich steffens <ulrich at barfuss-jerusalem.org>
wrote:

> Am Dienstag, den 17.01.2006, 15:55 +1100 schrieb
> Sasha Tsykin:
> > Frank McCormick wrote:
> > 
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> > >On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 09:18:29 +0800
> > >"Senectus ." <senectus at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >  
> > >
> > >>On 1/17/06, Frank McCormick
> <fmccormick at videotron.ca> wrote:
> > >><some serious snippage>
> > >>    
> > >>
> > >>>My sentiments exactly. My wife still runs XP
> and while she is interested at times in Linux, there
> is no way I would put it on her machine. She is used
> to running almost ANY video/audio file without
> problems. She is used to logging onto CNN and
> watching Videos automatically, she is used to
> watching movie trailers full-screen if she want to,
> she is used to being able to use Nero's clean clear
> interface to burn the odd CD, she is used to not
> having problems with many websites
> Linux/Firefox/Opera etc cannot handle perfectly.
> HOWEVER I still have to run the spyware removal
> programs, and fix the odd problem for her.
> > >>>
> > >>>Windows XP is miles ahead of almost any Linux
> in the day to day operations 90% of the people I
> know need.
> > >>>
> > >>>And no I am not a Windows troll. I have been
> running Linux ranging from Slackware to Mepis to
> Debian to Ubuntu for 3 years. I don't dual boot. But
> I figure one machine running Windows is plenty in
> this house. It works for her as Linux works for me
> 95% of the time.
> > >>>
> > >>>      
> > >>>
> > >>I'd have to disagree with you.
> > >>_Windows_ does nothing better than Linux.
> > >>    
> > >>
> > >
> > >   Windows handling of multi-media is **miles**
> ahead of Linux handling.
> > >  
> > >
> > very true
> > 
> what argumentation is that?
> sure is win better in multimedia handling cause
> everyone is using
> windows/ms standards. so thats not a real point. or
> am i wrong?
> so can i say, that if i prefer quicktime, that win
> sucks at multimedia
> handling?
> > >  
> > >
> > >>It's the fact that there is _so_ much written
> for Windows, and the
> > >>fact that the standard is a Windows standard
> that keeps people from
> > >>swapping over.
> > >>    
> > >>
> > >   
> > >  Quantity is not quality. GIMP can stand
> shoulder to shoulder with PhotoShop...but there is a
> lot of crap software in both camps
> > >  
> > >
> > that's true, but in my opinion, the photoshop gui
> is much more 
> > convenient and easy to use. gimpshop is ok but not
> as good.
> > 
> funny, i know a lot of osx users who say that the
> gui for photoshop gets
> uglier and less usable with every release. sure they
> *hate* gimp :)
> 
> > >  
> > >
> > >>I'd put good money on the fact that if the
> standards used in computing
> > >>were opened up, we'd see a _massive_ shift in
> the market.
> > >>
> > >>    
> > >>
> > >
> > >   You and I will both be dead before that
> happens. Unless some marketing genius gets a hold of
> Linux, I fear it will always be an also-ran. (Sorry
> Mark) But maybe that ain't so bad ...
> > >  
> > >
> > I don't necessarily agree with that one, but
> certainly, real prominance 
> > for linux will probably come later rather than
> sooner.
> > 
> people don't use win cause its easier, they use it
> cause its installed
> on their machine by default. ask an average user
> what windows version
> he/she is using. most can't tell.
> 
> > >
> > >
> > >- -- 
> > >Cheers
> > >
> > >Frank
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> > >  
> > >
> > Sasha
> > 
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> ulrich steffens
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> http://www.barfuss-jerusalem.org
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