On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 09:59:14PM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: ... | Finally, what I'm really interested in is the adamant MS-bashers and | when they've last used Windows. If they're soooo against it, I | assume they either never have or it's been 5+ years.
Sorry to disappoint you Hall, but I have used windows since the first release of 95, and still have to use it regularly. Up until about 2 weeks ago I had to have NT, then 2k on my machine at work. Fortunately for me I now have Debian running on it. The labs at school I spend almost all day in are win2k, but have X-Win32 on them and there is a RH machine to log in to remotely. Also my dad's 2 machines are win95 and win98 and my brother's machine is winme and I must deal with them in the LAN set up and when they ask for tech support. Even with all of this MS experience (rather because of it) I strongly dislike MS products and like Linux (even other unices) much better. You won't find me bashing Solaris, AIX, or IRIX, etc, because I haven't used/admined them enough to know whether they are good or bad. I do know that I dislike some of the options (or lack thereof) of Sun tools when compared to GNU tools, but I don't bash products I am not familiar enough with. -D
