This is a "reply" post to people who jumped the guy's bones about his original post in which he said that Linux on the desktop "is dead".
The OPPOSITE
The one line that i find hilarious is that he says way down at the bottom of the article, in newspaper writing technique, this is where the writer puts stuff that he either does not want people to read or just thinks they won't ger there.
But he says that Linux is a "one percenter" distro in that it "just" increased from .85 percent(decimal 85) to 1.56 in FIFTEEN MONTHS
ok,,,, a system that is not in stores, that has to be either downloaded or special ordered on a computer went from .85 to 1.56 in fifteen months.
I wonder how long it took the original Win 3.1 to go from X to Y in fifteen months).
THE PARTIAL TRUTH
OH YES........... HE is EXTREMELY dismissive of "fourms".
Maybe my comment that we should eschew the use of the term "newbie" might be put into the context of him being able to....with justification......badmouth forums.
We have all seen those forums and most are not like that......but think of the "etch-a-sketch" soundbyte......that is going to haunt Romney through the election
Newbie is not a 'nice" term.....and if we can say "person" instead of "he" or 'she" or postperson instead of postman, mabye we can use "new to Linux" so the "person" in that article will have one less thing to snipe about....
but....here is said article"
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscente..._straight.html
woodsmoke
The OPPOSITE
The one line that i find hilarious is that he says way down at the bottom of the article, in newspaper writing technique, this is where the writer puts stuff that he either does not want people to read or just thinks they won't ger there.
But he says that Linux is a "one percenter" distro in that it "just" increased from .85 percent(decimal 85) to 1.56 in FIFTEEN MONTHS
ok,,,, a system that is not in stores, that has to be either downloaded or special ordered on a computer went from .85 to 1.56 in fifteen months.
I wonder how long it took the original Win 3.1 to go from X to Y in fifteen months).
THE PARTIAL TRUTH
OH YES........... HE is EXTREMELY dismissive of "fourms".
Maybe my comment that we should eschew the use of the term "newbie" might be put into the context of him being able to....with justification......badmouth forums.
We have all seen those forums and most are not like that......but think of the "etch-a-sketch" soundbyte......that is going to haunt Romney through the election
Newbie is not a 'nice" term.....and if we can say "person" instead of "he" or 'she" or postperson instead of postman, mabye we can use "new to Linux" so the "person" in that article will have one less thing to snipe about....
but....here is said article"
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscente..._straight.html
woodsmoke
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