Re: [OT] Goodbye Debian
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 10:52:00PM +0100, Dan H. wrote:
> Well, I guess the subject caught your attention after all.
>
> Of course I'm not saying goodbye to Debian, at least not voluntarily and
> certainly not at home. But I just changed jobs, and so moved from a self-
> administered Debian box to a locked-up, preinstalled all-M$ Dell thing.
> M$ Office, M$IE, Lotus Notes 6 (soon to be migrated to Outlook Express).
>
> I've never really used Windows before and thought of it as just another
> system -- I like Debian, you like Windows, no sweat.
>
> Boy, what a piece of crap. It boggles the mind. This is how the world's
> office workers get their work done? Or do they?
>
> I managed to install Opera in a directory owned by myself, but whenever I
> try to open any page it keeps asking me for usernames and passwords,
> which IE somehow seems to inherently know about. That thing doesn't even
> have tabs or a decent bookmark handler. That's the #1 browser in the
> world! WTF? Am I missing something here?
>
> OK, this rant really doesn't belong in this group, but I need some
> sympathy right now.
Understood. That is how I feel every time I have to use my wife's
university-supplied laptop. Or try to help her untangle some horrors
from m$word.
with much sympathy,
--
richard
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