[Gllug] Whinge

[Formi]

On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, David Damerell wrote:


 Is this interesting ?

  "much better to waste the time of everyone who reads it, obviously"

 if you remember they are your own words ...

                                                 My beautiful self


> Last night I changed the motherboard, CPU and memory in my fastest
> machine from a slot Althon 750 to a VIA K7V266, Thunderbird 1400,
> 256Mb PC2100 memory. I'm not just telling you this to make you dribble
> (although I _can_ compile a kernel, modules and all, in 130 seconds),
> but to tell a tale of woe.
>
> I have two OSes installed on this machine. One of them, our friends in
> Redmond tell us, is difficult to use. For experts only. Not well
> supported. Doesn't support the latest hardware. Indeed, this OS was
> not without problems; I had to boot from a rescue disc, remove the
> bogus 'mem=384M' from /etc/lilo.conf, rerun lilo. Total elapsed time,
> 5 minutes.
>
> The other OS is the consumer OS that everyone uses because it's easy
> to use; furthermore, I live with someone who is often reduced to
> professional admin of OSes from this family. 4 hours of epic struggle
> and innumerable reboots later, most of the problems are solved, but it
> still won't use any graphics driver except the oldest available.
>
> I know you all know this, but I just wanted to complain. Really. How
> did they conquer the world with this shit?

 Well my beacuse people use it, you included....................



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