On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 02:26:42PM +0100, P.B. wrote:
@Rui Miguel Silva Seabra:
I clearly see that you didn't get my point. Furthermore, your arguments and choice of language are neither helpful nor mature.
I clearly see you didn't get my point either, it's a pointless no-problem you're worried about. You want to appease zealots and nitpickers.
If you think sincerity is neither helpful nor mature, what do you take nivity for?
Unfortunately, you've missed that I wasn't complaining
I didn't think you were complaining, I even tried to avoid using the word 'you' intentionally.
- I'm looking
for answers and reasonable arguments to present to others who stumble across these things and do not have time or the technical background to understand - or even fix - it.
But you're worried about unsolvable problems that only exist in the minds of those who want Windows for free. You don't have to convince everyone at any and all costs.
"I don't give a crap about Windows, all my external disks are
formatted with ext3."
Hm... guess what? My disks are all ext3, too! But what about other people, if they'd like to use their external disk to move data around?
I move data around in these disks.
(printer settings)
"Send patches fixing those applications, or get someone else to do
it faster (mybe by paying them, for instance)."
That's a nice, but unrealistic answer. We're not talking about a small fix for a single application here.
Printing's not nice in Windows either. A hundred different printers has almost as much different dialogs. And don't let me get started on how you go to "add local printer" for adding a printer on the other side of the country.
I don't see people whining about that.
What is a MAJOR problem with printing on GNU/Linux is the ammount of printers that simply don't work because they requires proprietary software.
Please don't bother to reply unless you're willing to calm down a bit and offer useful, constructive approaches.
You appear to think I am not calm because of a weird notion that people who don't agree and are quite frank to tell it in your face must surely be not calm.
Rui