[PolestaR]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('emersonbiggins', 'C')AD2007? I don't like typing in coordinates.

[AgentR]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PolestaR', 'W')ell the FACT is the Windows XP desktop is better than anything LINUX can throwup at the moment. I hope to make the native move to linux desktop eventually when it matures some more (I use VMs with linux atm from windows).

[PolestaR]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AgentR', 'B')etter is always subjective based upon the tasks that someone wants to perform. I just thought it was kinda funny considering all the anti-hegemony attitudes espoused on the boards, that such a high percentage of readers continue to contentedly feed one of the most aggressive hegemonic corporations on the planet.

[gnm]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PolestaR', 'W')ell the FACT is the Windows XP desktop is better than anything LINUX can throwup at the moment. I hope to make the native move to linux desktop eventually when it matures some more (I use VMs with linux atm from windows).

[AgentR]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PolestaR', 'S')ure it's old... but I type faster and my fingers travel less. resulting in less strain. Not that it is important to you.. after all long term injuries don't bother someone going to heaven.

[Loki]

Windows works for me, so why change? ArcGIS 9 also doesn't run on anything but Windows. And no, I'm not going to waste my time with open source GIS.

Maybe someone geekier than me can explain why Macs are considered a "progressive alternative" when Steve Jobs is still one of the most richest bastards on the planet? Many of the "progressives" I know seem to prefer Macs, as if they're striking a blow against corporate America or something. I'm sure Jobs is laughing his way to the way to the bank. I personally won't buy anything Apple, mostly because my limited experience with them was negative (freeze up, reboot, freeze up, reboot, repeat as necessary), plus I find their iPod marketing to be extremely irritating.

[The_Toecutter]

If anyone thinks all Windows users on this site actually paid for it, they are probably mistaken.

I have my harddrive partititoned off, and I use my two OSs for different purposes.

[AgentR]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('The_Toecutter', 'I')f anyone thinks all Windows users on this site actually paid for it, they are probably mistaken.

[The_Toecutter]

From what I hear, the service for windows is virtually useless. But then again, I'm friends with a bunch of Linux geeks. They may be biased.

[AgentR]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('The_Toecutter', 'F')rom what I hear, the service for windows is virtually useless. But then again, I'm friends with a bunch of Linux geeks. They may be biased.

[rogerhb]

Anybody using any CPUs, memory or harddrives not made by a coorporation?

[emersonbiggins]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rogerhb', 'A')nybody using any CPUs, memory or harddrives not made by a coorporation?

[AgentR]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rogerhb', 'A')nybody using any CPUs, memory or harddrives not made by a coorporation?

[emersonbiggins]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AgentR', '
')Hegemony is a wonderful thing, while you can make it last. MS has figured out how to make it last for at least another decade.

[seldom_seen]

I have a visceral hatred of windows and microsoft. From the bloated, insecure and annoying operating system to the pompous smug asswipes that work in Redmond. I'll just leave it at that and won't go off on a 20 page tangent.

FreeBSD and MacOS 10.X are unbeatable. When I started working on a dual proc G5 I though I had entered in to some new golden age of computing.

[holmes]

This is the shitstem we are handed. Im not left behind Im trying to leave this cancer behind! However the cancer is terminal. Death is the end result. But well have lots of shit on the way out! yay! Living things will keep dying being replaced by dead inanimate objects. Awesome! a success!

[holmes]

Linux and mac is the only way. I do not own a home computer. Power down is my only option. The end.

[PenultimateManStanding]

speaking of anti-corporate (i can't get into any sort of computer-geek discussion any more than i could a discussion of soccer) what do people suppose is the alternative? the economy of scale, the need for large amounts of capital to do certain things, the efficient use of that capital, all this means that corporations are neccessary. the only alternatives are government control of all large enterprises or size restrictions so that all business is small business. It was Rockefeller who got the big corporation ball rolling and it seems like an inevitable way to organize commerce. People like to rant against them, but it just seems like Don Quixoty jousting with windmills, the posting equivalent of picking your nose - a petty little indulgence: "oh those corporations are souless! they suck!" Yeah so? what else is new, but it's how everybody gets housed and fed and entertained and everything else. The only legitimate discussion, i think, is how much to regulate them.

[evilmonkeyspanker]

Debian Linux

Vista for the ultimate edition will be nearly 400 US

Microsoft was started by Bill Gates by cheating a company out of thier OS and by stealing the trade secrets of other companies.

Yes, I hate not having any decent video editing software and I wish I could use photoshop.

But what I get,

Complete security, the ability to check out and view all of the source code for my computer and make changes as I see fit.

Microsoft has unfettered access to all computers that are installed with thier os. And could provide the government with the same. (taking big brother many steps up) Why do you think its only the EU going after monopoly based charges.

[PolestaR]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AgentR', 'S')tory fits here... A few years back, you may recall, Carpal Tunnel got lots of attention in the media, and all of a sudden people were trying to find ergonomic this and that.. Well, right after those stories, my hands started really hurting, and for a week I fretted about it a bit, and its completely true that I am the perfect definition of an ergonomic disaster, I slump way back in the chair, rest my arms on the edge of the desk, type hard enough that people in the next room complain... so I thought, hey, I've got this thing too, but then after a day or so, I thought.. You know, I never noticed these aches till I read the reports, maybe this is all just bunk to slirp money from insurance companies. Later that day, I no longer noticed the discomfort any more.

Basically, I think some hand surgeons figured out how to make a bunch of money convincing people they needed to fix something that was a normal part of being alive. Since then, I've ignored the discomfort, and beaten more keyboards into nonfunctional paper weights than I'd care to admit.

Guess what. My hands still work, more or less. At this rate, I figure they'll be done by the time I'm eighty; but considering I'll be quite cold, rotted, and dead long before that, thats probably to be expected,