the major company offering linux bit is one of my main gripes against m$. m$ i beleive has threatened to cancel the licence for a company like dell to install windows if they offer linux at all, or they offer discounts if a smaller company only offers windows. now i know this isn't really a gripe thread, but those are mafia tactics, ain't they?

thats what he implied when he said lonly linux and windows will exist in a few years. frankly, i hope hes right.

and seriously, its not too hard. if you can't use it, dont. we dont care about you. we all had to learn how to use it, why waste our time helping noobs when we can be more useful helping each other?

opensource was never meant for idiots. a person that dosent know how to use a computer dosent care about source code and cant use it for anything anyway. LINUX IS FOR GEEKS. and if you are having too much trouble with it hten you probably shouldnt be using it. i had trouble too, but i had also accidentally deleted my windows partition, so there was no going back. i stuck with it, and distro after distro i finally found one i like. now, i havent asked a linux question for a loooong time. i just come here for the general forum mostly. and ive only had linux since this summer.

as for not being able to read a man page in a gui without a DE, how else are you supposed to read it if you dont have a GUI in the first place? considering that every non-slackware/gentoo/similair distro has a DE installed by default, they can read man pages no matter what WM they use. and if youre using gentoo, i think you can figure out how to type in "man something" in the terminal.

there already is a WinFS-type project being worked on for KDE, and a alpha is already released(somewhere on kde-apps.org). in fact, it will probably be released before MS releases it. other than that, i really dont see longhorn offering any advantages over linux. with the advent of x.org 6.8 and KDE's native png and transparency support, kde still looks better than longhorn, and its much much faster(ive tried).

i think that until hte end of the decade, linux production could stop and well still be ahead of MS. either that, or we can put it into overdrive and show em what we're made of

That's realy sad...Bill Gates is rich enough...

I don't care if Windows dominates everythign in the future or they die a horrible death...i'll still you linux. But why in the world would they be so scared that they are gettign mad at companies offering linux preinstalled and what not...that's stupid.... <.<

Also why don't I ever see Slackware ont he shelves at computer stores!!!!!...LOL...nevermind....

Thankyou DSL that I got a month ago