Re: Recommended Mini-PCs: ALL Windows and Mac, ZERO Linux

Joel wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> wrote:
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...as it ever was and ever will be.
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The word "Linux" is the kiss of death for retail computers.
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"Linux" in the specs = automatic rejection by shoppers.
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"GNU/Linux" is even worse; it conjures images of idiots dancing around
shamelessly in public in ugly antelope-head costumes tossing empty boxes
of Windows into a big trash can.

:-D

What image does "Micro Soft" conjure?  :-D

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A lot of Winblows licenses are over- or co-written with Linux, I would
buy 11 Home on an ARM laptop and switch it to Linux.

DFS is a trolling clown. A great source of laffs!

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<jgoerzen> stu: ahh that machine.  Don't you think that something named
           stallman deserves to be an Alpha? :-)
<stu> jgoerzen: no, actually, I'd prolly be more inclined to name a 386
      with 4 megs of ram and a 40 meg hard drive stallman.
<stu> with a big fat case that makes tons of noise and rattles the floor
* Knghtbrd falls to the floor holding his sides laughing
<stu> and..
<stu> double-height hard drive