[jubjub2m6]

i definately am guilty of this i have to manage 43 winblows xp boxes.....and sometimes my boss laughed at me when i wanted to goto the second drive in one of them i tried to mount it in a cmd window....DUH! or the ls instead of DIR sometimes i feel like a tard....but rather be a tard and run linux then be a mindless zombie running windows.

[AAnarchYY]

Originally Posted by jubjub2m6

i definately am guilty of this i have to manage 43 winblows xp boxes.....and sometimes my boss laughed at me when i wanted to goto the second drive in one of them i tried to mount it in a cmd window....DUH! or the ls instead of DIR sometimes i feel like a tard....but rather be a tard and run linux then be a mindless zombie running windows.

I'm guilty of the mount slip and ls too, and when i am on windows(on someone elses computer) it almost feels unnatural to NOT have a CLI open. Usualy when im on someone elses doze box, im only there to fix it(remove spyware, clean up the hd, *shudder* defrag) and i whenever i try to delete something and it complains that its in use, i on instinct run to a prompt and type ps aux | grep procname to look for a PID so i can kill the proccess. or i type lsof. then the person looks at me like im an idiot when it says 'command not found'. thats about the time i shout "ack! F#&!ing windows!"

[satiristicflames]

Congrats. I can't even look at Windows anymore without getting frustrated. I use it at school, but only when I have to. I bring my linux-formatted laptop with me, and I try not to be forced to use the school computers. ick. ick.ick. But, at times I wonder whether I'm not making a mistake forgetting Windows. I mean, yes, I hate working with it, but I will have to deal with it sometime, right?

[Stormblazer]

I switched to linux slowly over time, even at one point running both systems 50/50. Now though, I'm completely linux oriented, it's just a great and friendly system. Windows XP still sits on my harddrive, but I hardly ever use it, and it's not so bad since I switched out all the default apps for opensource, and the Desktop is Aston instead of the ugly default. In short, it doesn't really look like XP much. And it ran pretty stable compared to most windows boxes, but it still sucked compared to Linux.
I still remember most of how to use/fix windows from sheer long experience though, and the fact that the school uses it too. Although I covertly installed firefox on that one by installing to the my documents folder instead of default, since i didn't have admin access. I'd even think about putting linux on one, except the tech admin knows quite a bit about linux, he's not stupid with computers like most stereotypical tech admins are.

IMO, using windows doesn't mean your a mindless zombie, the OS doesn't exactly suck horribly (unless you use IE,Outlook,AOL, and/or MS Office), it's actually pretty stable if you're an informed, experienced, and/or power user, but windows IS definitely worse than Linux. In fact, on my scale, for the average user:
Linux is slightly better than MacOSX, which is WAY better than WindowsXP Pro/Windows 2000, which are much better than WindowsXP Home/WindowsME.
For the power user:
Linux/BSD is a few bars above MacOSX, and Windows in general is at the bottom of the pit of doom.
For the production power user:
Linux~=MacOSX (depending on needs), Windows is... I don't have a word/phrase to describe that one.