Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question for old farts. lol
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:12:26
Message-Id: 73e6ccd61f22ed7435833eb0727d7604.squirrel@www.antarean.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question for old farts. lol by Walter Dnes
1 On Tue, January 31, 2012 6:30 pm, Walter Dnes wrote:
2 > On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 06:05:12PM +0100, Michael Hampicke wrote
3 >> > Sweet. I had 15 minutes in the office "how long before someone makes a
4 >> pointless, unrelated Windows insult out of my post" pool; I just won
5 >> $5.
6 >>
7 >> I was using Win3.1 - and was happy with it
8 >> I was using Win95 - and was happy with it
9 >> I was using WinNT4 - and was happy with it
10 >> I was using Win2000 - and was happy with it
11 >> I was using Win Server 2003 - and was happy with it
12 >> I was using Win7 - and was happy with it
13 >>
14 >> And I am also a Linux SuSe user since 6.0 and Gentoo user since
15 >> 1.something (but up until now just on the servers).
16 >>
17 >> I made the final switch from Windows to Linux on my Workstation (Gentoo)
18 >> and Notebook (Lubuntu) only a few month ago.
19 >>
20 >> So please, don't accuse me of making Windows insults.
21 >
22 > I feel that Win98SE was the best Windows ever, and could've been even
23 > more of a killer if Microsoft hadn't so stupidly tried to ram ActiveX
24 > down people's throats. Remove ActiveX, and 99% of "drive-by-downloads"
25 > would've disappeared. WinME was a sad joke, however.
26
27 I enjoyed MS Dos, then played a bit with MS Win3.11, MS Win95 and MS Win98SE.
28 However, for important stuff, like day-to-day desktop, I switched to Linux
29 in 1997. That was the last time I lost files due to a crash of MS
30 Windows...
31
32 --
33 Joost

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