Winblows faggotry. And shit

[Akzle]

It's even funnier when the boot's on the other foot eh bro. Lulz

it was a srs question. I do appreciate the lulz, but meh.

[Smifffy]

I was red flagged for a month on the ubuntu forum for complaining about the problems, esp wireless dongles etc and bluetooth ( which is terrible on pretty much all the linux iso )

It was a friggen kiwi and all

Stephen

I got banned from the PCLinuxOS forums for griping about something - I think it was lack of support for my wireless kb. It wasn't even a gripe really, just a question about how I could get it to work with a small vent of frustration after listing what I tried.

Best thing windows ever did IMO was to have the free beta release of W7. Prior to that I had been running *ux, and prior to that I was running a less than legit version of XP. After running W7 for a year and seeing how everything just worked, and how stable it is, I had no problems parting with the cash. I certainly don't miss the days of jumping through hoops for the windows activation stuff. Or not knowing whether my problems were caused by something I'd done, by a legitimate problem with the OS, or by some munted piece of code to 'patch' the OS.

[iranana]

fuck windows run ubuntu instead, any flavour of linux is better than windows.

[Smifffy]

it was a srs question. I do appreciate the lulz, but meh.

You've already had some pretty good answers, but just for more lulz:

Windows reports illegitimate OS - between you and M$, need to either 'patch' it or legitimise it. Possibly if you get a legit key you will need to remove/reinstall windows
Windows unable to allocate space - either related to above, or possibly hardware limitations - disk full? insufficient ram?
Problems connected to domain - possibly related to either of issues above, perhaps you could join the domain in linux to do what you need to do, unless you need win specific apps? You could run them in wine or something, but probably would need better hardware to do that.

In terms of having to uninstall/reinstall OS, I've had to do that more often with linux than windows, even in the bad old days.

Best bet: update hardware and get a modern OS

couple of last thoughts: Have you installed/changed/downloaded anything lately hadrware/software

Is the case full of shit?

[avgas]

its on my grub list. Unfortunately, the presence of superior software doesnt influence windows in anyway.

i never said that M$ hadn't stolen open source code, rebranded it and shipped it as closed.

the analogy would be having a dictionary and a blonde on your desk, sure, you might have more fun with the blonde, but the precense of the dictionary has no impact on her, and is ultimately, more useful to have on your desk.

Ah yes - you stated Windows was not influenced by other softwares.......as for the theft thing. Its a 2-ways street. Basically all the networking source in CLI now emulates commands from good ol' DOS.
Not to mention the "Mint" button on Cinnamon and its handy little search feature.
You probably don't remember the hoops that you had to do on Ubuntu way back in V6 when you connected a second screen. "WHAT DO YOU FUCKING MEAN YOU CAN ONLY CLONE THE DESKTOP!!!".
Good times - not.

6 of one half a doz of the other. I am looking forward for Ubuntu to go mobile. Looks promising. Likewise SteamOS looks fun.

As for the blonde and the dictionary. If you sit either on the desk you're telling me one thing. You're not quite sure what to do with that computer thing.

[SMOKEU]

fuck windows run ubuntu instead, any flavour of linux is better than windows.

It's not really a "better" OS if the majority of software the user needs isn't compatible, and there isn't any alternative. The best OS is the one which does what the user requires.

[Akzle]

/dev/rfcomm0 = no (mac addy specified in file, and phoneside connection specified)
/dev/ttyACM0 = yes. wvdial.