Re: windows 8 first impressions

[§ñühwö£f]

bleak_fire_ wrote:
> on the great fire of Fri, 11 Apr 2014 18:36:39 -0600, §ñühwö£f leapt from
> the flames and sang:
>
> > It fucking sucks balls. Wheres the start menu? Whys the wifi so fucking
> > wonky? Sony made a crapfest with their vaio lappys. My sis bought won
> > and it sucketh. Cant connect to our wifi.
> >
> > ROFL!
>
> switch to linux if you can
Mheh...I'm a BeOS guy. THis is my sisters laptop and I'm trying to get 
it useable on our crappy DSL wifi.

> many of your favorite windows programs have linux versions too (firefox, 
> thunderbird, etc)
Yer preachin to the choir here, bub. I started with RedHat 8...


> there are alternatives for almost everything else you run on windows
>
> you can use wine to run (a very large minority of) windows programs with 
> no problems, over time linux's alternatives will get better and better 
> and you won't need to run wine
>
> you will need windows less and less as time goes on
I dont use it myself :)


> eventually, ultimately, by the end of time, nobody will need windows for 
> anything
>
> try downloading a livecd/livedvd/liveusb. no installation is required and 
> you can still access your windows hard disk and files.

Haiku/BeOS for me, thanks.
"Classic Shell" for my sis if I can convince her...

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