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Originally Posted by speakingtohe

I think you are overly sensitive. I did not mean to imply you know nothing about Windows, just that you are not overly fond of Windows. Perhaps you have even called it Windoze? If I am completely wrong, I apologise.

I just don't understand your hostility on this.

Helen

Because you made a random, unnecessary comment, which incidentally made no sense and included the rather arbitrary belief that the default assumption should be that a person can only know about one thing at a time.

(Yes, I have called it Windoze, all the time. It is. There are professional Windows IT guys who say the same thing, so I ask again -- what does that have to do with the price of tea in China?

Originally Posted by Mivo

It's a frequent issue with Linux users who tend to be patronizingly overzealous in a way that reminds me of well-meaning missionaries who believe they must show the right way to the uncivilized and uneducated barbarians who don't know any better -- only, of course, to save their souls.

That some of us barbarians are perfectly happy with our from capitalism tainted Windows machines, or that many of us wild people explored the beer-flavored promised paradise already, and went back to our swamp, does not seem to find much consideration. We must be converted to the Linux.

For our own good.

In this case, I am simply irritated that I have someone telling me I must have no idea what I am talking about, when I am talking about Windows (in that particular instance, I was merely observing that MS had not, in fact, moved to a subscription model for Windows -- that is all I said)...

because I am a linux guy.

I have made jokes about the superiority of linux, yes. But I don't generally demand that people convert (I have suggested it as an option, say, when people want to know why they cannot run the latest versions of calibre on WinXP).
I like to think I am reasonably relaxed on the issue of other people using Windows. I have helped people lots of times get their Windows computers running the way they need it.

I also could not possibly care less about the "capitalism tainted-ness" of Windows or any MS product. I would be happy to use it myself, if I found it as easy to use as linux.
That would be why I don't tend toward proselytizing, either -- to me, it is all about the usability.

Originally Posted by BWinmill

I'm also going to let you in on a little secret about Linux users: many Linux users are annoyed by those open source fundamentalists. While the typical Linux user appreciates the benefits of open source software, they are not puritanical about it.

Exactly.

Richard Stallman & Co. are the ones you should be complaining about -- most linux users are not like that.