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Windows’ start menu didn’t load properly when i clicked on it today. That’s not surprising, what is surprising is that i instinctively just clicked the desktop and tried again. This blatant acceptance and forgiveness for screwups in software is quite crazy. I lose count on how many such issues occur on a daily basis with Windows, but imagine if something similar to this happened when you went to a restaurant. You sit down, the waiter trips over you with hot coffee, then brings you the wrong meal and brings you a cheque for three times what you ate and goes home before returning your credit card. You’d leave and never come back!… so why is it linux doesn’t have crazy market penetration? The same reason why not everybody raises their own cattle: there may be no artificial growth hormones, but it’s quite a hassle.
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You’ve heard the boiling frog myth, right? You’re used to it, so even if it still gets a little worse, you’re still sticking to it, and you’re used to that, so even if it gets a little worse, you’re still sticking to it… ad nauseum.
Everybody grumbled and complained and yet still acclimated to $4/gallon gas last year, didn’t they? Count on your fingers how many people actually made significant changes because of it.
long time no see on msn
If the design suites from Actel and Xilinx runs on Ubuntu, I’d already deleted my vista…