Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 2 minutes later[^][v]#349,345
They could also just as easily install Windows 7 onto their computers.
Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 17 minutes later, 19 minutes after the original post[^][v]#349,350
I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linuxâ€, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux†distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
TheSheep !kJ.A4PF7.k joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 48 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#349,360
It's a shame how PC's turned into angry birds playing, facebook browsing machines full of silly apps...
Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx replied with this 14 years ago, 11 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#349,362
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They don't have to be.
dw !jdTkvovFCQ joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 18 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#349,367
they could also just not use the store
Anonymous F joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 2 hours later, 4 hours after the original post[^][v]#349,393
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Buy that's the main feature really. Being able to install something not full of viruses and spyware. Well, spyware not approved by MS anyways.
Anonymous G joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 54 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[^][v]#349,405
Linux has no gaems.
Also Windows 8 is identical to Windows 7, but you'd know that if you weren't an ignorant whiner.
Anonymous F replied with this 14 years ago, 9 minutes later, 5 hours after the original post[^][v]#349,406
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So if it's the same than how's that supposed to be good for anyone who owns the stock?
Anonymous H joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 1 minute later, 5 hours after the original post[^][v]#349,407
@349,405 (G)
What really matters this time, though, isn't just what Microsoft has added to the Windows mix: it's what it has changed, or taken away from Win 7
And that's because this is no gently incremental upgrade. Rather, Windows 8 has undergone a major redesign which sees the Start menu scrapped, the desktop demoted, and years of interface conventions thrown away.
Anonymous F replied with this 14 years ago, 22 minutes later, 5 hours after the original post[^][v]#349,410
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But that's what's supposed to happen when you're somebody's bitch. You don't get to choose.
Anonymous H replied with this 14 years ago, 7 minutes later, 5 hours after the original post[^][v]#349,413
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I held on to XP ...Said NO to Vista and will hold on to 7
Spent a couple of days playing with 8 and said WTF?
Win 7 never crashed on me. Sure things I did not like about it yet 8 does nothing to help me with any of that.
advi !!3gpAcg/hF joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 9 minutes later, 5 hours after the original post[^][v]#349,419