"Re: Nvidia sucks, sucks, sucks !" sicks

[jdow]

From: "Kim Lux" <lux at diesel-research.com>
> On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 17:43 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
> 
>> I have found that any time I bring up a way in which Linux,
>> or Fedora Core in particular, could benefit from easier install/
>> modification/you name it, especially since the OTHER OS already
>> supports such, I get flames more or less like what you experience
>> here.
>> 
>> Criticism, however well-intentioned, however spot-on, however helpful
>> it might be, is not something easily condoned by people for whom an
>> operating system is nearly a religion.
>> 
>> For me, an OS is a standardized interface to various hardware.
>> It lets me load and execute applications. Linux+GNU form an OS
>> and support apps which let me manage my hardware. That's it.
>> 
>> If another OS does some things better, then the Linux and GNU crowd
>> should take that as an opportunity to review, and see whether some
>> lesson couldn't be learned, rather than as an opportunity to express
>> disdain for anything not of the pale.
> 
> Amen, brother !

Subject says it all. Maybe it's time to drop this silliness?

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