IHMO: Linux Advocates, Turn the Other Cheek!

From http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,316,00.asp:

'The Windows user will come into a newsgroup, for example, having tried to set up Linux and then run into problems

I have a question?

If Windows is so great, just what in the hell are they doing here?

Why don't they just use Windows and stay away from these bad people Pete?

Why? Tell me Why?

Could they have some sort of Mental condition like you do?

Cheers,

On 20 Jun 2002 13:26:44 GMT, Pete Goodwin

This really doesn't happen much in the regular linux groups. I think our writer has spent too much time in cola and has started to think it represents the norm. It doesn't.

COLA is not a support group. It is a place to argue. Anybody with the sense to read for five minutes before posting will know that.

That isn't too surprising. You have admitted that you ask for help here not to get help (since you know that this isn't a support group) but to wind people up. Your experience thus isn't relevant to what 'new Linux users' would find.

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'to wind people up'? I've never done that! I merely point out things that are broken on Linux - not expecting help - to show that as an OS it has a way to go yet!

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No, not exactly. I have used Linux before (Slackware). DEC UNIX is where I developed a number of applications for a large product for Digital.

I'll bash anything that I think is sub-par. You guys should try listening for a change.

Sat, 22 Jun 2002 at 08:47 GMT, peering quizzically at his shoes,

And when told that, 'no, it's not actually broken, you just don't know how to do it, and here's the correct way', you naturally accept the advice and try it out?

Error Log for Sat, 22 Jun 2002 08:39:07 -0400: segfault in module 'Johan Lindquist' - dump details are as follows...

Of course not. Pete falls in the same class as all the other so-called 'computer professionals', it's never his fault, it must be the system.

Since he claims worked on 'nix systems like 20 years ago developing stuff in one very limited field, suddenly he feels he is some kind of 'nix expert.

As I've said before, it is often these so-called self-styled 'computer professionals' who are the most clueless and arrogant of the whole lot.