Anonymous Columnist Shills For Microsoft -- What A Surprise

On Mar 30, 5:08 pm, RayLopez99 wrote:

Subject: The Economist magazine correspondent: "Linux sucks"

"RayLopez99" is a false identity used by Microsoft for posting
lying anti-Linux propaganda to public forums like COLA.

He habitually calls Linux users "retards".

In this article, "Lopez" quotes a piece from a newspaper,
trashing Linux, by an author who doesn't even give his name.

This is not me talking, but the prestigious Economist,
and by a former Linux fan boy. Listen up 'tards.

http://www.economist.com/node/21551409

Desktop Linux
Difference engine: Free is too expensive
Mar 30th 2012, 20:05 by N.V. | LOS ANGELES
...
The most recent release, Linux Mint 12 (ŽLisa¡), has been
the most frustrating yet. Your correspondent wasted much
of last weekend trying to get it to work on one particular
machine that has always been a model of good behaviour. But
Linux Mint is not the only offender. Ubuntu has been plagued
by even greater woes. It is beginning to look as though this
deterioration in software standards is beginning to hobble
all Linux distributions destined for the desktop.

Did the anonymous author ask any Mint person for assistance?

Apparently not. And then he deduces from his experience that
all Linux desktop distros are "deteriorating", despite the fact
that Mint is based on Ubuntu!

He goes on to criticize the dumbed down desktop environments
Unity and Gnome3, and the bugs in KDE4.

The solution to that
is not to go even dumber with MS-Windows, but to choose OpenSuse
with KDE3 or Ubuntu with Trinity Desktop. And have it installed
by an expert in a Linux User Group!

The problem is compounded by the way Linux has grown over
the years into an ungainly edifice, built upon thousands
of individual packages of computer code that have been
stapled together.

That's why one should choose a well-maintained Linux distro.
OpenSuse is the best.

To succeed on the desktop, Linux needs to penetrate the
office.

The bullshit is about to fly...

Unfortunately, there is no such thing as a single
Linux to go up against Windows 7. What there is instead
is a fragmented field of hundreds of different Linuxes,
each with its own learning curve, skill set and maintenance
needs. Even the top five distributions (Linux Mint, Ubuntu,
Fedora, openSuSE and Debian) cannot offer a big enough user
base to attract adequate support.

In actual fact, those distros _do_ have very adequate support,
if it's needed, which it usually isn't. The anonymous, bribed
mister "N.V." is lying.

That is what is wrong with desktop Linux. Hobbyists and
enthusiasts may be willing to invest their own time and
effort to keep a desktop Linux running.

He's lying again. Once Linux is installed and configured,
no effort is required to keep it running. Unlike MS-Windows,
which periodically eats its registry, kills itself and has to
be reinstalled.

In business, the biggest single computing cost is not software
licenses, but the salaries of the support staff.

That's if MS-Windows is used; it needs a lot of ongoing support.

In the circumstances, systems administrators do the rational
thing: they install Windows machines on every desk, pay the
Microsoft tax, and sleep easy at night, knowing there are
plenty of maintenance people to keep their Windows networks
running smoothly.

Oh yeah, Microsoft got its bribe money's worth from this one!

"RayLopez99" is a false identity used by Microsoft