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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.se.dataphone.net!nntp.uio.no!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-feed3.bbnplanet.com!news.intr.net!news From: jeffm@intr.net Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy Subject: Re: Betting on Unix Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 09:06:32 GMT Organization: Internet Interstate Lines: 29 Message-ID: <332faac7.665720@news.intr.net> References: <5d3sr2$44n@nntp1.best.com> <5g02nk$q63$1@Venus.mcs.net> <5g0je7$fk3@ousrvr3.oulu.fi> <3332502d.480155877@206.149.24.10> <5gfr2g$1ej@teal.csn.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.taz.intr.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99g/32.339 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:165156 comp.os.linux.networking:72412 comp.os.linux.setup:103204 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6369 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2841 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:57227 I do not wish to start an idiotic re: ... re: ... deal here, but please "Mr. Mac's are Great" save the 'Mac is better than Windoze' postulating for another usenet group .. this is the Misc. Linux group .. right :) ??? for each user, or group of users there just might be an ideal platform to accomplish whatever tasks or fun they seek from a computer ..... who cares what platform that turns out to be .. at least we have choices ...... On 15 Mar 1997 20:57:04 -0700, bediger@csn.net (Bruce Ediger) wrote: >rkyoung@flash.net wrote: >>that you honestly would rather have provided voice telephone only tech >>support to my ex-mother in law, under Unix, rather than W95. She's not >>stupid, but she was a soc major. Even the most basic computer >>vocabulary, was a barrier. > >All I can say is "Thank God my parents bought a Mac". It took my dad >_weeks_ to understand drag-n-drop. If they'd gotten Windows (at that >time 3.0, I think) they would have given up on the whole thing. Windows >95 would have been an unholy terror, trying to explain that wacky file >naming, the bizarre seperation of "dircetory" and "file", _drive_letters_, >for crying out loud, it's Windows "95", not Windows "65". > >Macintosh was heard enough for my old man to learn: he's not stupid, he's >got a doctorate. After seeing him take so long to figure it out, I will >deny to my dying breath that "Mac is intuitive", and I will ridicule anyone >who claims Windows95 comes even close to Macintosh.