The people love Windows XP 10146

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Of course it is. And there are closer to 100 reviews there.

So. They still wrote in saying how much they liked it. Can you find 100 reviews saying they hated XP?

Just above, when you claimed "people ... fall prey to hearsay or marketing." as if their own knowledge doesn't matter.

That's ridiculous. What you mean is "the merit I think Linux has doesn't enter into their buying decisions."

That's exactly how you think. Many other cola nuts have made identical claims: people don't know the difference between an app and an OS, people are stupid, etc.

There's lots of ways to measure and describe "technically superior."

DEC was a big company. Some products were "technically superior" and some weren't.

When's this magical, mystical, majestical "end" going to come? We've been hearing the same thing for years from Linux advocates - and we'll be hearing it forever I expect.

You chose all those parts based on merit, because no matter how low the price, if they didn't do the job you needed you wouldn't have bought them.

Thanks for contradicting your own argument.

2 more merit badges.

I think some of you cola wackos honestly believe only the 10 regs here can make informed decisions about computers and OS's. Talk about a version of reality.

The fit - they had merit.

Why? (I quit Wal-Mart myself right after Christmas last year. I was sick of the dirty stores, the unstocked merchandise piled up in the aisles, the employees yelling at each other from 100 feet away, the long lines, the crappy Chinese junk they sell, etc.)

So it has merit as a file server. Otherwise you would have bought something else.

Do you want to reverse your statement now, or continue to try and support it?