Ain't it the truth!
I was in CompUSA today (they have a great deal on a Toshiba Laptop) and
I heard a salesperson and 3, not 1, not 2, but 3, customers discussing
Linux and how bad it is when it comes to supporting modern hardware.
The salesperson confided off the record that they are forced to sell
Linux software, but they don't recommend it because it is so bad
compared to Windows and that most people who buy it end up screwing up
their systems and come back to the store screaming.

No surprise there!

On another note there was a line waiting for a salseperson in the Apple
dept.
Seems, colleges are recommending Apple for their students because of
the lower incidence of virii and spyware.
I spoke with the poor sales drone and he told me it's like this
everyday and they are looking to hire more knowledgeable Apple sales
people.

I asked about Linux and his answer was, and I quote:

"You must be joking"

When I replied, no I am not, he told me how much Linux sucks and how
just about every copy of Linux they sell comes back to the store,
attached to an irate consumer who just blew away their hard disk
installing Linux.

Typical.....

Peter Habib wrote:

It must really suck suck to be a windope luzer.

I hear the twice convicted microshat monopoloy are releasing new slow down
'downupgrade' windope for orifice modules to really make
windope suck in the orifice and force every windope
to switch to install pasta la vista on their computers
and then bend down like good little bum boys
and become stuoopid windope payees for getting shafted
and then say thank you.

So whats else is new in windope astroturfing world?

Nothing as yet.

But needless they will try be trying it on in the next
few days.

It must really suck to be a '7', luser.

pcbutts1 wrote:

> It must really suck to be a '7', luser.

Says butt boy for microshaft.

How much you stuoopid bum boy payees intending
to pay for microshaft pasta la vista?

It is a great shame that these things occur but I don't find it
suprising.

Many people these days are computer-illerate (despite what they may
think) and Linux is just too hard for them, so if people like this buy
a (even the more new user friendly distributions) distribution they
will usually find a, what they think is, fault. They then return Linux
complaining how crap it is and the sales staff, who haven't bothered
trying it since they are moderately happy with Windows, assume that it
must be crap since a large majority of buyers return it.

Now I believe Linux is much better than Windows but I'm just pointing
out what I believe to be the case in computer stores.

Even my teachers tell me Linux is crap compared with Windows, hell,
they even said how tables were better than CSS for positioning... damn.

Tom wrote:

> It is a great shame that these things occur but I don't find it
> suprising.

The most surprising is the huge uptake of LiveCDs.
Most people have heard of it and even 15 year old kids
are making their own LiveCD distros.
Nearly 300 liveCDs to try out on this link alone...
http://www.livecdlist.com/

"7" <website_has_email@www.ecu.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
news:CeWEe.76608$G8.51729@text.news.blueyonder.co. uk...
> Tom wrote:
>
>> It is a great shame that these things occur but I don't find it
>> suprising.
>
> The most surprising is the huge uptake of LiveCDs.
> Most people have heard of it and even 15 year old kids
> are making their own LiveCD distros.
> Nearly 300 liveCDs to try out on this link alone...
> http://www.livecdlist.com/
>
Don`t think I want 300 different liveCds <g>.

Peter Habib wrote:

[snip]

Don't feed the flatfish.

P.
--
"This rudderless world is not shaped by vague metaphysical
forces. It is not God who kills the children. Not Fate that
butchers them or Destiny that feeds them to dogs. It's us.
Only us." - Rorschach, Watchmen

For regular PC users, they'd better stick with windows. Even though I
dual boot my every PC to win & RH, I only use Linux for
testing/learning purpose, like Oracle RAC stuff. Why do I still use
win? 'cause there are more games/apps available on win.


Peter Habib wrote:
> Ain't it the truth!
> I was in CompUSA today (they have a great deal on a Toshiba Laptop) and
> I heard a salesperson and 3, not 1, not 2, but 3, customers discussing
> Linux and how bad it is when it comes to supporting modern hardware.
> The salesperson confided off the record that they are forced to sell
> Linux software, but they don't recommend it because it is so bad
> compared to Windows and that most people who buy it end up screwing up
> their systems and come back to the store screaming.
>
> No surprise there!
>
> On another note there was a line waiting for a salseperson in the Apple
> dept.
> Seems, colleges are recommending Apple for their students because of
> the lower incidence of virii and spyware.
> I spoke with the poor sales drone and he told me it's like this
> everyday and they are looking to hire more knowledgeable Apple sales
> people.
>
> I asked about Linux and his answer was, and I quote:
>
> "You must be joking"
>
> When I replied, no I am not, he told me how much Linux sucks and how
> just about every copy of Linux they sell comes back to the store,
> attached to an irate consumer who just blew away their hard disk
> installing Linux.
>
> Typical.....

ibm_97@yahoo.com wrote:
Why do I still use
> win? 'cause there are more games/apps available on win.

Exactly the same reason I use Windows XP. Let's just say, the second
they can get me MS Flight Simulator and Hitman for Linux, I will format
my ntfs drive immediately.