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Jul 10, 2011 5:35 PM
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Typical rhetoric common amongst tech-bloid journalists and, as a result, a sizable amount of Linux loons.
No, the average user doesn’t want to “think about lines of code or computer languages”, and, yes, they “want to push a button and have the world at their fingertips”. After all, programmers don’t get paid for messing around with their workstations and not getting any of their actual programming work done.


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People … People who love AAK AAK AAAK Fredom Fighters Attacking From Starboard!
Sorry. Just had to do that. And here’s the indubitably gorgeous and very quotable Barbra Streisland: http://www.theromantic.com/lovesongs/people.htm
I’m told she has an entire Wagnerian song cycle that starts with Slackware, hits the note on Debian, has a sort of Funeral March with Ubuntu, and possibly a coda somewhere.
Nobody can find the coda. Perhaps Dan Brown can help with that?
Streisand; apologies to Barbs.
> “think about lines of code or computer languages”
In fact, Linux “design” (quoted, because as we all know there is no such thing as “Linux design”) is quite horrible. Implementation came to “OK” level in most places after big corps became involved, but it’s still crippled by that horrible “design” thing.
So, it’s quite the opposite, if you know Linux, only thing that can make you to stay is ideology/religion. One of the reasons we don’t see too many high skilled loons.
It’s a variant of the No true Scotsman fallacy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
“No, the average user doesn’t want to “think about lines of code or computer languages”, and, yes, they “want to push a button and have the world at their fingertips”.”
These weird people who enjoy working software, bah. I much more prefer it if it’s broken by design and I have to fix it. Don’t you as well?
http://tmrepository.com/stream/archive/1310318658943297/#1310318658943297
You got the TM from here, no?
This is true. It’s obvious that the people who hate Linux don’t use it.
[citation needed]
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