I thought MiniMax's "getting the last word" was silly, but so was your post that was obviously trolling (unless you expect everyone to agree with you...)

Trolling? 😕 Ok maybe my last sentence was forthcoming but it was only meant to stop any o/s heated flames.

I wasn't debatng the best o/s, I was asking your opinion on the internet's strange obsession with having "one o/s to rule them all" and yelling at those who disagree with one's choice.

I closed it in the hope to prevent a war. (your post seemed like a plain war statement (for example the last line).)

I can't control moderator actions though.
They have my full support.

For your information - for everyones information - the thread was not closed when I started composing my reply to avatar_58. It was only after I pressed "Submit" and the thread was updated, that I noticed that Qbix had closed the thread.

Should I have deleted my reply? Perhaps I should, but that is too late now.

As for calling you an amateur, well... I did not really call *you* an amateur, did I? All I said was that you had fallen into the same trap as 99.99% of the happy amateurs. Even professionals make an error once in a while (and add it to their resumé calling it "vast experience").

Are you an amateur or a professional? Are you working with computers for a living? If not, are you then an amateur or a professional? You tell me.

Personally, I claim to be a professional when it comes to computers. I have owned, used and worked with virtually all kinds of computers, operating systems, and interfaces that have graced this industry for 25 years. And if there is one thing I have learned, then it is that nothing is forever. What today is hailed as the most advanced system, OS, or GUI, will be completely forgotten by the masses in 10 year, with only small groups of retro-people huddling in forums like this, re-living things of the past.

That's all there is to it. Go use whatever OS, GUI or shell you like, as long as you give the same option - to go and use whatever command line I like.

So anyways...Who wants a cookie?

/Homer Mmmmmm, coookkiiiieeeesss

I will take a Twinkie, please....

Oreo?

Yum. 😎

Well yes, I'm in college for the topic in question as well as coming out of a tech job. Does that make me a pro? Not really, but I'm certianly no amature having worked with pc's my whole life as well as it being my focus for a future career.

I seriously think my post was taken the wrong way.....I have posted this on a few other boards and no one seems to have taken it as hard as this place...🙁 It wasn't meant to jab at anyone or any O/S but to imply that people are far to opinionated about their "choice" and preach like they are doing the world a favour. I also can't help but wonder if you comments would have been the same had I not said which o/s I used.....but then again thats how things always are on the internet. Whats worse is that these attitudes are not forum-bound.....everytime I read eweek articles or carouse interesting reviews they are always coloured to one o/s choice and speak out against the opposite choices ( a tiger review will always compare to a windows or kde style gui...)

I just think this kind of thing is childish....why can't we all get along? 🙁 Oh well....I guess as long as we have a choice there will always be fanatical followers and zealots...

Actually your point was valid. In fact, my reaction was that your point goes without saying, so I couldn't see what possible direction you could expect a discussion to take other than turning all the zealots loose on each other...

OSes are just like religions these days - people use them as a way to identify themselves as belonging to some group. Unfortunately they often use this identity as a basis for attacking other people for no reason other than that they have different preferences/beliefs/whatever.

At any rate, things like these tend to be touchy subjects and are best avoided in open forums 😉