PC going down and Microsoft is the anchor

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Been using linix since pre2000. Ubuntu is great.

I just had a help desk call from one of my store managers. He couldn't figure out why a .dotx is different from a .docx and you want me to move him to Ubuntu?<>
 
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I don't get how you all can be pointyheads with the computers and cavemen with a woodstove :p It's kinda funny readying cause you all are making jokes (least I think?) that 99% of us are thinking, WTF are these guys talking about?!

When I get on the computer I check email or a few website and that's about it. Everyone knows Al Gore invented the internet so he could look at free porn <>
 
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I don't get how you all can be pointyheads with the computers and cavemen with a woodstove :p I
If ya do it 9-10 hours a day, you look for something else to do on your off time. I do very little with puters in the evening. I don't even like to look at the TV at night. Worked on my still last night.;) (for making ethanol)
 
Makes sense, same way a mechanics truck is usually the one that's falling apart, barely running.

If ya do it 9-10 hours a day, you look for something else to do on your off time. I do very little with puters in the evening. I don't even like to look at the TV at night. Worked on my still last night.;) (for making ethanol)
 
Makes sense, same way a mechanics truck is usually the one that's falling apart, barely running.

Yeah - I have been doing this as a job for 24 years (counting military) and started messing with puters in about 1979. I dream in ones and zeros.:p Have been at my current post (computer dude extraordinaire) for 18 years and unless something unforeseen happens, I will retire from here.
 
He couldn't figure out why a .dotx is different from a .docx and you want me to move him to Ubuntu?<>
hahahaha. maybe not for the average user yet. LOL. Its a great OS and it moves really fast on legacy hardware.
 
Oh - I am familiar with Ubuntu. I am also and IBMer. I run a mini-main for my operational software (sales order, purchase orders, inventory, payables, receivables, etc). You want to see something that can perform??? My IBM box is smokin' hot.
 
I don't get how you all can be pointyheads with the computers and cavemen with a woodstove :p It's kinda funny readying cause you all are making jokes (least I think?) that 99% of us are thinking, WTF are these guys talking about?!

I'm right there with Jags. After a full day dealing with this stuff (mostly telephone systems, virtually all of which have Linux or Windows servers that run right along side them), by the time I get home I want as little to do with technology as possible. The latest non technological activity at night is home brewing. Haven't done that in a while.
 
you know, OSX is linux based..and with the current flavor, Mountain Lion you get that whole toughness thing goin....grrrrawwwwrrrr.

Still hoping I live to use one of my favorite lines from a movie...Star Trek ?? (the one with the whales, the voyage home maybe?)
Scotty:"oh, a keyboard, how quaint".
 
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Nonsense. I have worked daily for a living in every Windows OS since DOS 5.0. I can't tell you how many times I crashed the creaky Windows 3.11 for workgroups. It would be in the hundreds of times for sure. Windows 3.11 graphic routines and drivers were sometimes beta software at best and the printer drivers were pathetic. Without a doubt, Windows 7 64bit is the most stable and easy to work with version that MS has come up with. Drivers now update without rebooting and I have only had a single blue screen in 3 yrs. and that was due to a very faulty graphics driver and not the OS. Built-in security is much more robust too. Their server versions are also pretty good, but most folks don't work in them.
I fully agree! I remember the 3 finger salute all too well lol.. Win 7 is excellent in my opinion for reasons you outlined and many other reasons... Love the search feature!

Ray
 
how many times did you crash 95, 98 and all of its variations, 2000 pro, xp, win7. You guys make it sound like they dont all crash and have a lot of issues. we roll out weekly windows updates, that says a lot about a product that needs updates weekly and sometimes more often. I may be talking nonsense or maybe just what i have seen over the last 15 in different places.

Like I said earlier, MS seems to get about every other one right. Sure I crashed a lot in Win 95, a whole lot. Win 98 SE was not perfect, but a lot better. Win ME was awful. 2000 and XP were better and easier to use, but Win7 is so far my fave. I see in Win 8.1 (Blue) they are going to return the Start button and boot straight to the desktop. That's a start.
 
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My favorite OS on the desktop was OS/2. One of my desktop troops was in my office one day and looked at my monitor. In the bottom corner it showed that it had been up for 64 days. He said he was going back to take Windows off of his machine and put up OS/2.
 
I tried to give OS/2 a chance, I really did. But is was very unstable when I used it and most of the graphic apps I was trying to use in it were too dysfunctional. I decided I didn't want to be a beta tester for IBM.
 
Yeah - OS/2 was pretty notorious for driver issues, but once you had a machine up and running (cleanly) - the sucker would just run.
 
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