Imagine this:

You're sitting at your workbench, carving a piece of wood, and your friend comes over. Instead of saying "Hi, how's it going?", he says, "dude, you should totally buy Craftsman tools, they are really sturdy." You think, gosh, I'm happy with my Ryobi tool set I bought. So you say to him, "but I like the friendly grip of Ryobi while I work." So your friend says, "I can't believe you'd use such a crappy product. My mom has a Ryobi drill and it's broken all the time." You tell your friend to shove it up his a$$, you like Ryobi and you're happy with what you got.

Later that night, you decide to help a different friend out with a project he's working on. You bring your Ryobi drill set and screwdrivers to help. When you get there you two start working on the project, but you soon find out that your power supply doesn't work with his Stanley drill. You get upset because your friend doesn't realize that the recharging batteries that Ryobi has are much more efficient and his Stanley power tools aren't as good as yours, even though they are much more powerful. Sure, you could use his set, but you don't like the feel of the grip as much as you like yours, so you tell him you can't help him with his project and drive back to your house.


Did that just sound totally stupid? If you said "yes" you have no reason to be a MS, Linux, or Mac zealot. You have no reason to ever put down someone's OS they choose. You have no reason to bash an OS.

If you said "no", then you need to stop being so confrontational and get a life.

Please, why can't people just accept that others will use a different OS, and that they may in fact LIKE Windows or OSX or FreeBSD or SCO Unix or Ubuntu or whatever OS they decide to use?

When people post things like "M$ is nothing but a monopoly that should be shut down. I love my Mac." I just want to slap some sense into them. Am I the only one who feels this way?

Tool? Anyone that uses Windows is a tool!!!

Nah, just kidding. I have 2 XP Pro SP2 machines, a Mandrake box and a PowerMac. There are great things about them all and there are bad things about them all.

I use Linux and Windows at home, although I just prefer Linux a little better, even though I'm still learning. What really irks me is when people bash Linux and they don't know anything about it....and you can tell by what they say. Both are good operating systems for different reasons, but if you don't know what you're talking about, don't say anything. That's how I feel anyway.

P.S. Just because I left out Mac, I'm not insinuating it's a bad system. I have no experience with it so I can't say anything about it.

You've hit the nail on the head there, I'm with ya 100%.

I use windows on all mymachines hoever my laptop is dual booted with linux, and I want to get a mac mini... I don't nessesarily like windows especiallly since it came out with WPA it teach the honest customers like potential criminals when the actual pirates have ways around it. (all my XP installs are legit) I like Opensource Operating systems for 2 reasons 1. it's free or cheaper, and 2. you are more independant, I use firefox and Open Office, I run Linux with a dual boot and some day hope to make the switch to ReactOS full time macs are good becaure it's unix based, user friendly and dang it it's an alternative to an X86 processor, that'll help force you to use something then windows, nothing wrong with windows but I personally want to try these new alternative OS's and I have to run Windows for compatibility with my favorate games, all in all the world or Operating systems is a mess and I wouldn't have it any other way

I yell at people when they say M$. Like over at xbox-scene forums people say that all the time and i yell at them for buying a MSFT product they yelling about how much money they have. Its your fault retard. As you can tell by my sig.

You do realize that ReactOS is a dead end project; even it's developers are losing hope. Cloning NT is no where as easy as cloning Unix. NT is a really sophisticated platform. I doubt ReactOS will ever reach NT4 status. We all bash MS for taking forever to release Longhorn, but we all don't know the hard work it takes to build a NT based OS.

IMO, microsoft's fault lies in the way they treat their customer's requests reguarding their products.

I agree, although I also think that some of their business practices are kind of shady.

Well.... I use Linux, and like to promote it, but it's not like I hate windows or something, for me it's more a matter of loosing touch, everytime I work on a windows computer, it takes a while for me to get used to, especially word, because it is different from OpenOffice... ah well, it's just a matter of getting used to for me, and I like to whine about it to others, just for fun

well now, i am of the opinion that if i had to actually pay for my MS Windows XP i woudnt be using it, and i'll bet a lot of other folk, if they are being honest would say the same thing ......

tim

I agree.