I came here to say this. I don’t really do networking so I don’t have much care for this issue, but the clarity of the explanation was enjoyable. Plus I learned a couple of little things too.

Classic Scylla and Charybdis. Good luck on your odyssey.

The people that have problems with Windows and have to ask for help, shouldn’t be using Linux because it’ll confuse the poor souls even further.

My mother got so fed up with her windows problems that she asked me to put Linux on her computer. While she still had problems after that, she found them manageable and was happy with it ever since.

The people that know exactly how to configure and use Windows with zero problems have no need to use Linux

Nobody has zero problems with either os. The difference is whether you want to deal with problems that are just technical, or due to incompetence and profit motive.

Ooh, can we start the SCSI thing again?

Not from strangers anyway.

One of my favorites.

Not mine, it’s an oldie. 🙂

Or the classic: who | grep -i blonde | date; cd ~; unzip; touch; strip; finger; mount; gasp; yes; uptime; umount; sleep

I think that it’s one of the benefits of monopoly. People don’t think “I wonder if I should start checking out alternatives?” but instead “Damn, that’s annoying. I wonder if there’s a way to fix this?” Alternatives never even enter their head. See, there’s already a tool for the problem in the post!

If they were fake ads like in GTA and Cyberpunk, it could be fun, provided you could turn them on and off anytime.

If it helps there used to be a satanic edition as well.

Really, if people understood how to use hammers and plankton properly, we wouldn’t even need computers.

Good one. Took me second. Just a second though.

“I don’t know, I can imagine quite a lot.”

First one I tried was suse. Had it installed at an installfest (ah those heady days). But when I got it home it wouldn’t work with my monitor.

Second I bought Mandrake, but couldn’t get that to work either because I had lost my monitor manual and couldn’t give it the vsync value for it.

First one I got to work was called LibraNet. That worked great for a couple of years until they stopped supporting it because it was run by a father and son team and the father passed away.

So then I chose suse again, hoping a bigger org wouldn’t suffer the same problem. But then later there was some controversy I can’t remember anymore (was it with microsoft?), so I switched to Kubuntu which I have been using forever, but am going to switch to opensuse very soon for various reasons.

Fun trivia: used KDE on every one of them.

That was lovely, thank you!

My mother did for many years and she was a great-grandmother.

Had similar thoughts myself working in a computer store, hearing guys say things like “My wife would never let me…”

“From the makers of the BFG-9000… the all new FGC-9 sidearm!”

Yeah, I’ve found some right wingers that are like that; on everyday practical terms they like all that sharing and stuff, but somehow don’t connect it to the high-minded political ideals they like to talk about, Like two different topics to them.