Why Windows 95 is better than linux

["Diwakar - tamil.com" <diwakaran@xxxxxxxxx>]

nice article. have you read this?

- Diwakar

Why Windows 95 is better than linux

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Because of the harsh attacks on Dave Hewson recently, I have prepared a 
summary of the technical reasons why I find 95/NT better than Linux:

Because all operating systems are written by programmers, I assume that any 
operating system is much smarter than me. Thus, any good operating system 
should try to outsmart me by restricting my options at every turn. Linux, 
like all versions of Unix, is lousy at restricting my options because at 
the command line virtually any operation can be performed with ease. (For 
example, 'rm -rf /win' could delete an entire mounted directory, with no 
popup window warnings whatsoever.)

I'm proud to say that there is no such danger in 95/NT. Windows pop up when 
I want to make a change, and then more pop up to ask if I'm sure I want the 
change. Thankfully, Windows 95/NT operating systems look after my 
computer's well-being by occassionally switching configuration settings 
from the way I want them to what the OS programmers think
they might probably ought to be. Boy, I'm just impressed with how smart 
they are. Once I learned to live with whatever the default settings are on 
any new hardware I install, I can't say the number of hours I have saved.

I use that spare time to reboot my Windows machine multiple times a day. 
Technical support personnel recommend that I do it regularly- kind of like 
brushing my teeth. To help remind me of this necessity, windows pop up to 
tell me to reboot whenever I make a configuration change. By now my machine 
is minty fresh, I figure.

rest of the article: http://linuxfaq.quartz.net.nz/node148.html