Re: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question for old farts. lol

[Dale]

J. Roeleveld wrote:
>
> On Tue, January 31, 2012 6:30 pm, Walter Dnes wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 06:05:12PM +0100, Michael Hampicke wrote
>>>> Sweet. I had 15 minutes in the office "how long before someone makes a
>>> pointless, unrelated Windows insult out of my post" pool; I just won
>>> $5.
>>>
>>> I was using Win3.1 - and was happy with it
>>> I was using Win95 - and was happy with it
>>> I was using WinNT4 - and was happy with it
>>> I was using Win2000 - and was happy with it
>>> I was using Win Server 2003 - and was happy with it
>>> I was using Win7 - and was happy with it
>>>
>>> And I am also a Linux SuSe user since 6.0 and Gentoo user since
>>> 1.something (but up until now just on the servers).
>>>
>>> I made the final switch from Windows to Linux on my Workstation (Gentoo)
>>> and Notebook (Lubuntu) only a few month ago.
>>>
>>> So please, don't accuse me of making Windows insults.
>>
>>   I feel that Win98SE was the best Windows ever, and could've been even
>> more of a killer if Microsoft hadn't so stupidly tried to ram ActiveX
>> down people's throats.  Remove ActiveX, and 99% of "drive-by-downloads"
>> would've disappeared.  WinME was a sad joke, however.
>
> I enjoyed MS Dos, then played a bit with MS Win3.11, MS Win95 and MS Win98SE.
> However, for important stuff, like day-to-day desktop, I switched to Linux
> in 1997. That was the last time I lost files due to a crash of MS
> Windows...
>
> --
> Joost
>
>
>


When 3.1 came out, I changed jobs.  Swapping 15 floppies is no fun to
me.  Funny, reinstalling fixed the problems back then and it still is
the best way to fix windoze.

< sighs >

Dale

:-)  :-)

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