The avarage home user? I run a server on Microsoft Windows 2003, I don't spend a fortune on it, I'm not forced to use it, and I've yet to see it configure Apache with PHP and mySQL. You don't need Microsoft Office, ever hear of a thing called Open Office? It does everything Microsoft Office does, for free, and the Operating System it self comes on most PCs you buy.

It does not work for them the way they want it to, because they don't know how to get it to work that way for them.

...and you know what, Linux is exactly the same, and Solaris, and BSD, and Mac, and every other OS on the face of our wee planet.
My thread is not going to start a Windows VS. other Operating Systems thread, comments like this and
So please all keep this in mind when once more delving into the "windows v linux v osx v bsd v palm os etc etc....." People get pissed off and complain about things, this is the nature of the world.
that are.

I'm not complaing about Windows, nor am I complaing about Linux, BSD, or UNIX. You mis-read or twisted the point of this thread around. I have not complained about the use-ability of any OS, what I said was that people that think they are king-**** because they bash Microsoft because of Windows, because they fail to take a harder look at Windows, what you can do with it, what tools and services you have built in, that you can use, or disable, and complain because Microsoft releases a patch, just as much as any other OS, deserve to be in the "*******" category, as, as my dad says, there are only three kinds of people, men, women, and *******s.

Peace

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