Re: I wish to advocate linux

[Mark Filipak <markfilipak.linux@gmail.com>]

On 2013/2/27 11:18 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 10:34:04 +0000,  Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com  <mailto:lisi.reisz%40gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> > > > Mark Filipak wrote:
> > > >> For everyone who doesn't have their own development department to adapt
> > > >> Linux kernels to their widget, Linux has been a toy OS for
> > > >> technoweenies. That hasn't changed in 10 years and Linux has made no
> > > >> headway on the desktop (or the laptop). Why is that?
> > > >
> > > > Toy OS for technoweenies?  Try server o/s powering an awful lot of major
> > > > applications.
> > > >
> > > > Desktop Linux has less of a value proposition.  Face it, most people use
> > > > computers at work, where you've got to run MS Office - which means
> > > > Windows or MacOS.  Real simple.
> > > >
> > > > Miles Fidelman
> > >
> > > Your attitude, Miles, is typical and is a large part of the problem.
> >
> > What's wrong with it? And what problem?
> >
> > You can't possibly persuade anyone else to use Linux while you so obviously
> > dislike it yourself.
>
> Hasn't even run it, apprently, or at least wrote in an earlier message "But I don't run Linux."
>
> Now that's it in a nutshell, isn't it.  Seems to me that Mark is simply a troll (certainly not a "debian-user")
>
> Miles Fidelman

I'm not a troll, Miles. I'm someone who started computing on IBM-360s in the 1970s, who progressed to HP3000-SPL and PDP11s and UNIX and Solaris and MS-DOS and MS-Windows. I played with Xenix, Minix and even BE-OS. I've never successfully installed any distribution of Linux. I don't know why, but when I tried to read the documentation I gave up. The documentation was simultaneously dumb and obtuse and way too wordy. So I concluded that Linux is a hobbiest OS without much real-world use.

From your responses, it seems the situation has not changed. - Mark.