LXer: Second-rate Vista has Windows fans looking to Linux

LXer · 08-21-2007, 11:40 AM

Published at LXer:

The year is 1993, and I'm at the Spencer Katt party at Fall Comdex, back when Comdex was "the" technology show of technology shows. There, I, a freelance technology journalist, meet Jim Louderback, then the director of PC Weeks Labs. We end up talking about operating systems. He rather liked Windows for Workgroups for the desktop; I sang the praises of SCO Open Desktop 2.0. It was the beginning of a beautiful friendship, even though we completely disagree about operating systems.

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rkelsen · 08-21-2007, 06:18 PM

From the article: "Jim's switching back from Vista to XP on his workday machines."

"At the end of his column, Louderback wrote, "If Microsoft can't get Vista working, I might just do the unthinkable: I might move to Linux.""

So, this whole article is based on a silly comment made by someone who is switching from Vista back to XP and thinks that switching to Linux is unthinkable?

But the headline said that Vista is driving people to Linux...

If anything, Vista is driving most people back to XP and this article proves it.