OT = How Does Shrapnel Stay In Business

[geoschmo]

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GeoSchmo - My Last post was an attak on you. Sorry if it cacme across like that.

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You were disagreeing with my opinion. I didn't take it as a personal attack. Now if you start calling me names, I might take it personal.

I think your analogy on the plumbing, though very descriptive, is a bit over the top. I have no doubt that there are better operating systems out there. I have seen a few myself. But windows is not as bad as the cesspoool you are desribing. At least not for the average user.

Now, perhaps if I was the plumber (programmer) who had to come out and clean the pipes and drain the septic tank I would feel differently. But the vast majority of Users out there don't have the kind of problems you describe with windows, or they simply wouldn't buy it. You say you and everybody you know hates windows. Well that's not suprising. Most of your friends are plumbers or plumbing geeks too.

The fact remains that computers are NOT a neccesity of life for most of us. They are a luxury. A toy for many, a tool for some. Windows has made using computers easier. If it hadn't, people wouldn't buy them, or they would buy one with an easier operating system.

Your point is that people don't buy anything else because they don't know better. That may be true, but if Windows were that bad they would demand something better, or they simply wouldn't buy computers at all. Which is exactly what people all over the world did before windows came around. They didn't buy computers.

Replacing windows isn't going to take some grass roots effort where the masses rise up and throw of the shackles of the oppressor. That kind of stuff doesn't happen, unless things are really bad, which they aren't. It will simply take someone, anyone offering them a computer for sale with the competing OS already loaded, configured, ready to go, and able to run all there favorite games and other software titles, for around the same price as they can get it from "the Bill".

Don't tell them, "Your problems will go away if you just replace all the plumbing in your house, and here's where you can go and download some new plumbing." They'll say, "My plumbing ain't that bad. But when I'm ready to buy a new house, if you have one for sale with that good plumbing already installed, I'll consider it."

Geoschmo