Why most run Microsoft, not RedHat

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Thu Apr 19 12:10:59 UTC 2007


On 19/04/07, Scott van Looy <scott at ethosuk.org.uk> wrote:
> Today Dotan Cohen did spake thusly:
>
> > On 19/04/07, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> No cancel button. I even have a screenshot of it doing that to _me_
> >> once: about a week before I moved over to Linux for good. I'll gladly
> >> send you the screenshot. It's in Hebrew, but you can clearly see there
> >> is no Cancel button. And I find it hard to believe that Windows in
> >> English has a cancel button when Hebrew does not.
> >>
> >
> > Here is one:
> > http://dotancohen.com/windowssucks.png
> > translation: Your computer update is almost finished. In order to
> > activate this update your computer must be restarted. Windows will
> > automatically restart your computer in 3:56 minutes.
> > Note that the "Restart Later" button is greyed out and unclickable.
> >
> > And another:
> > http://dotancohen.com/ihatewindows.png
> > translation: Windows downloaded and installed an important security
> > update that will help protect your computer. This update requires an
> > automatic restart of your computer.
> >
> > About a week after these, I was already using Fedora for everything
> > but photo organizing. It took me another year to discover F-Spot and
> > recycle the Windows partition.
>
> OK, you weren't running as a user with administrative privs
>

Oh, I didn't realize that I was supposed to be an admin in regular
use. Apparently my professor didn't realize that either. How dumb we
are.

Dotan Cohen

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