From: solitude439@rcn.com   
      
   in article BZZJb.31641$nK2.7806@nwrddc01.gnilink.net, Roberto Icaza at   
   r.icaza@verizon.net wrote on 1/4/04 2:39 PM:   
      
   > I concur with SwtichtoG5.  I think it's all just ignorance and lazyness.   
   >   
   > I have been playing with computers since 1983 when I started with TRS-80s   
   > and a C-64.  I have become quite proficient with the Wintel set, but at the   
   > same time, don't shy away from other OSes.  I run Linux, MacOS X, Windoze   
   > 9X - XP and it's all binary to me, as long as you know basic computer   
   > concepts, it doesn't matter which OS you're stuck with, you can always get   
   > to work.   
   >   
   > I hate those close-minded idiots who self-proclaim themselves "experts" in   
   > one or the other system, grow up!!  It's a computer, not a foreign language,   
   > if you can point and click one GUI you can still point and click in another,   
   > trust me, it CAN be done!!!   
      
   I'm right there with you man!  I've been a computer geek now since the   
   advent of Atari and the Commodore 64 and as for learning anything   
   professional based on a computer, I owe it all to the Mac.  It's only   
   recently that I discovered how close-minded and arrogant Windows users can   
   be.  There's a guy where I work who swears by Windows and has nothing but   
   praise, but then you tell him about the security holes in Windows and   
   exactly WHAT THE PROBLEMS ARE with Windows, it's almost as if he should just   
   stick his fingers over his ears and start yelling "LA LA LA LA LA" He   
   doesn't want to hear the problems.  As for Mac, the Mac has had the right   
   idea all along - ease of use, graphical interface and everything just runs   
   the way you want it to run.  I think Linux gets a good share of beating from   
   the Windows Zealots as well, but we'll only see where Linux stands in the   
   next few years.  Offering a free OS gives them an edge as well.   
      
   D.C.   
      
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