We recently took delivery of a brand new system preloaded with Vista
Home and we have been checking it out over the last few weeks.

And, to put it bluntly, Vista is absolutely amazing. First of all,
our AO1 printer and camera now interface flawlessly, and with lots
and lots of user friendly, third party software to choose from.

We never really were a Windoze user for any length of time. We went
from (MSDOS - unix) to (os/2 - linux) using 95, 98, 2000 and XP
only when we had to.

But now Vista is here and the command line, is thankfully, now dead.
There is absolutely no rational reason to use the command line
anymore. In fact, there is no rational reason to use linux anymore,
neither.

Once you have cruised in Vista for awhile, you realize that linux is
_tiny_! KDE is _tiny_! compared to the new windoze gui. And the
fact that X offers all kinds of different window-managers is
laughable since they are all junk. Vista is getting to that place
where the OS is finally getting out of the way and allowing the user
to operate intuitively. No more spending half an hour with man and
some how-tos looking for that command you run twice a year. It
comes out instantly with Windows!

There is a huge difference in software written by teams of
professional software engineers using the latest tools, also written
by pros, and the tinkerings of the single harried amateur that is
the backbone of linux. User interface? Whazzat??????

And then we think about some of the trash that post to this ng.
Most of you zealots think that the ideal system is a linux system
running nothing at all, other than a minimal set of OS routines.
You sit there and lick your chops over how small you can make the
kernels, and how few processes you have running, using up the
"precious ram." You sit there doing absolutely nothing of
consequence with your minimal editors. Faux Pseudo, the "bash
programmer", tells you with pride that he doesn't even run X!

Duh! The whole point of the OS is to be invisible and allow you to
run as many applications as possible! Of course, in the land of
linux you don't really have any applications worth running...

As the system hardware becomes more and more powerful, silly little
"operating systems" like linux become more and more irrelevant to a
professional environment. Linux has been left behind. And before
the zealots start to howl, we suggest that you spend some time with
a Vista system to see what you are missing.

Oh, and there is still a 50 dollar reward payable to the person(s)
who can guarantee that The Coward never posts to this ng again.

cordially, as always,

rm