brian ross wrote: ↑Tue Nov 12, 2019 9:45 pm
Neferti wrote: ↑Tue Nov 12, 2019 7:41 pm
I tried
Red Hat a long time ago on a mate's computer and he had both Windows and Linux. Didn't like it. I don't like Microsoft either. The ONLY people I know who use Linux are OLD FARTS. Really OLD FARTS.
I have used Linux now for nearly 30 years, Neferti. I started out with Red Hat, went across to SuSE, then went to Debian, Ubuntu and am now presently using Mint. I have used Red Hat professionally for most of that time. I have also used various flavours of Unix. All are subtly different. You are entitled to your opinion although it is obviously personally coloured. Was the command line a bit of a problem for you?
I started with DOS back in the 80s. I had a personal computer at home in 1984. They were still using typewriters (or word processors) in the offices. I enjoyed playing games like
Leisure Suit Larry back then, plus a few other "adventure" things as did my daughter, who was about 9 at the time.
Plus I used to "key in" diatribes that a couple of friends gave me and save them to disk (and I used to charge $5 a page CASH. LOL) I didn't have a printer.
Then, when Windows95 came in (August '95) I bought a new PC (cost me $3,500) and joined the WWW at great expense - there were no "local" ISPs so I had to join Microsoft - browsing the "Web" cost me about $5 an hour and one month I recall having a bill for $300 plus. Yikes.
The Commonwealth Government at the time did NOT yet have the Internet and were still using CCMail - however, the Techie and I got on really well and he gave me various programs to "test" in my copious spare time at work.
Everyone played "games" at "lunchtime" most were "pirated" by some bloke who called himself a Canadian (but was really an American). I borrowed some to load on my computer at home.
I don't think you have any idea, Brian. So up yourself that you actually think you are superior to everybody else.
It is time for you to
Smell the Roses.