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Hey, life's too short for that kind of bitterness over a mundane thing like what OS others are using. You have lots of choice. If you don't like windows, don't

Hey, life's too short for that kind of bitterness over a mundane thing like what OS others are using. You have lots of choice. If you don't like windows, don't use it. Simple! but don't lie to yourself about whats been the most dominant and used desktop operating system since the mid 90s. Preferences are ok but delusions, just sad.

Annatar 8y ago
"If you don't like it don't use it" fallacy doesn't work because I'm not talking about private but professional use. Look what happened with GNU/Linux, one cannot "not use it if one doesn't like it" because someone else already decided, also out of incompetence stemming from ignorance (which I'm then forced to deal with, unnecessarily). So there is more than plenty of reason for deep seated bitterness and resentment. Of course I wouldn't use those privately but private use is irrelevant.
- orange8 8y ago
  >> "If you don't like it don't use it" fallacy doesn't work because I'm not talking about private but professional use. That professional use is decided by someone too, the business owner, or someone given that authority. And they too, have aright to make that choice for their organizations, as well as for the people they employ. If you don't like it, get a job elsewhere. Choice is not a falacy, and your bitterness stems from the fact that you're denying you have it. Be gratefull for what you have.
  - Annatar 8y ago
    I will never be grateful for someone else's ignorance or incompetence causing me unnecessary work. It won't happen. I'd rather drop dead. I'm interested in doing things the best way possible and neither Windows nor GNU/Linux is that way. There is no reason for me to be grateful for those two pieces of garbage making my life unnecessarily difficult.
- orange8 8y ago
  >> also out of incompetence stemming from ignorance (which I'm then forced to deal with, unnecessarily) This smacks of intellectual snobbery. We are all born with different talents and abilities, and not everyone is blessed with the ability to configure or manage their own OS. Or to dance the rumba. It doesn't make them bad, ignorant or incompetent, they're just wired differently. Which is why choice is such a great thing.
  - Annatar 8y ago
    So what if it is snobbery? If someone can't configure and manage their own OS and yet they are employed in IT, they have no grounds on remaining employed and no their ability to hack-together a semi-working program does not entitle or justify them to remain employed in the IT industry. Better leave that to people who can both program and manage the OS. I sure as hell don't need work colleagues "workin' fer a paychek" (sic); if a person isn't passionate about computers, they better gtfo of there and stay out and never come back. They should go do something else they too are passionate about.

Annatar 8y ago

"If you don't like it don't use it" fallacy doesn't work because I'm not talking about private but professional use. Look what happened with GNU/Linux, one cannot "not use it if one doesn't like it" because someone else already decided, also out of incompetence stemming from ignorance (which I'm then forced to deal with, unnecessarily). So there is more than plenty of reason for deep seated bitterness and resentment. Of course I wouldn't use those privately but private use is irrelevant.

orange8 8y ago
>> "If you don't like it don't use it" fallacy doesn't work because I'm not talking about private but professional use. That professional use is decided by someone too, the business owner, or someone given that authority. And they too, have aright to make that choice for their organizations, as well as for the people they employ. If you don't like it, get a job elsewhere. Choice is not a falacy, and your bitterness stems from the fact that you're denying you have it. Be gratefull for what you have.
- Annatar 8y ago
  I will never be grateful for someone else's ignorance or incompetence causing me unnecessary work. It won't happen. I'd rather drop dead. I'm interested in doing things the best way possible and neither Windows nor GNU/Linux is that way. There is no reason for me to be grateful for those two pieces of garbage making my life unnecessarily difficult.
orange8 8y ago
>> also out of incompetence stemming from ignorance (which I'm then forced to deal with, unnecessarily) This smacks of intellectual snobbery. We are all born with different talents and abilities, and not everyone is blessed with the ability to configure or manage their own OS. Or to dance the rumba. It doesn't make them bad, ignorant or incompetent, they're just wired differently. Which is why choice is such a great thing.
- Annatar 8y ago
  So what if it is snobbery? If someone can't configure and manage their own OS and yet they are employed in IT, they have no grounds on remaining employed and no their ability to hack-together a semi-working program does not entitle or justify them to remain employed in the IT industry. Better leave that to people who can both program and manage the OS. I sure as hell don't need work colleagues "workin' fer a paychek" (sic); if a person isn't passionate about computers, they better gtfo of there and stay out and never come back. They should go do something else they too are passionate about.