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Ever see a person who drives 4 Clynder cars try to drive a muscle car. They either stall the car or smoke the rubber off the tires.

Or take another example. A person who only ever learned to drive compact car can't jump into 3 axle truck and drive it properly and safely.

This is the same if you drop a windows user on MAC. Ever see that? It's actually really funny watching them try to get a CD out of the CDROM drive. Or the revese watching a MAC user panic because a floppy is left in the drive and they get a non system disk error. Even watching a Windows user ask where the start button is on Linux box happens.

Each OS you must learn to use it. Some people are more intuitive than others and can figure it out while others panic.
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Oh, jeez...  Yen_z | 12/08/03
How about Winux?  John Zern | 12/08/03
Hmmm...not sure I could see it.  Yen_z | 12/08/03
not generic terminology  myndlon@... | 12/09/03
What a GREAT idea!!  OhMyGosh | 12/09/03
Many care even less about Linux  StorageGuru | 12/09/03
Monopoly Alert!  AbsolutelyNot | 12/09/03
regardless  stephen732@... | 12/08/03
Clarification here.  Yen_z | 12/09/03
Such tact  Mack DaNife | 12/09/03
Lindows suks  Suicida| | 12/09/03
quality doesn't matter  myndlon@... | 12/09/03
so does your spelling  Lunpa | 12/09/03
"distributions"  AbsolutelyNot | 12/09/03
not enough people bought xp-  cybershoplifter | 12/09/03
cart and horse  myndlon@... | 12/09/03
Haha  Clete2 | 12/09/03
glutton  stephen732@... | 12/09/03
misconception..  ryusen | 12/09/03
Im hungry  illdesign | 12/08/03
More like McDonalds suing somebody for the name "Wamburgures"  DonnieBoy | 12/08/03
how true  stephen732@... | 12/08/03
perhaps not.  jonbob | 12/09/03
The problem is this  voska | 12/09/03
Trademarks  Zooomy | 12/09/03
If they were the first to use Windows for overlapping windows on a computer  DonnieBoy | 12/09/03
history repeats itself  stephen732@... | 12/09/03
Let's see..  AbsolutelyNot | 12/09/03
Better analogy: someone creates a "MacDonalds" but says it doesn't infrige  marksashton | 12/09/03
Heres another way of looking at this !  NT Admin | 12/09/03
your remark...  stephen732@... | 12/09/03
(NT) Change Ford to Yugo :o)  Jack-Booted EULA | 12/09/03
One problem  Masamune | 12/09/03
exactly...  stephen732@... | 12/09/03
Not really  voska | 12/09/03
Sorry Dude  NT Admin | 12/09/03
Bad headline  notbilln | 12/08/03
They changed it to "Microsoft-Lindows battle expands in Europe"  DonnieBoy | 12/08/03
Meanwhile, TalkBack still can't get it right!  AbsolutelyNot | 12/09/03
Just another episode of....  Rick_K | 12/08/03
Exactly  GRindinAxTaRupy | 12/08/03
"Fair and Balanced"  doctormoriarty | 12/09/03
What's in a name?  SylvesterCologne | 12/09/03
ROSES!  Lunpa | 12/09/03
Actually  berck | 12/09/03
Dang, thought $un was the only one  FilledOut | 12/08/03
come on  JWatson77 | 12/08/03
Wow, more free publicity for Lindows. Well, they do have to pay lawyers.  DonnieBoy | 12/08/03
Winux sounds good too  John Zern | 12/08/03
Maybe Microsoft should...  John Le'Brecage | 12/09/03
Lindows is going to crush Microsoft into the floor! It will become..  GRindinAxTaRupy | 12/08/03
"Microsoft has no issue with them"??  Robert Carnegie | 12/09/03
I thought  AbsolutelyNot | 12/09/03
Lindows or LindowsOS?  El.Gato@... | 12/09/03
Windows, not Lindows, will be changing it's name  TheSlumlord | 12/09/03
Linux: Windows for Linux. I can see the ads now.  DonnieBoy | 12/09/03
You obviously know little about trademarks  marksashton | 12/09/03
Microsoft has been moving away from Windows  voska | 12/09/03
RE: You obviously know little about trademarks  MicroSucks | 01/06/04
Lindows  berck | 12/09/03
David and Goliath?  NemesisNL | 12/09/03
But if you ask NoAx  AbsolutelyNot | 12/09/03
Change name to Lindowx  tero_t_vaananen@... | 12/09/03
Change name to Redmond Apple  FilledOut | 12/09/03
Stop selling it?!?  Michael Kelly | 12/09/03
You are mistaken  marksashton | 12/09/03
Bull Droppings!  Rick_K | 12/09/03
You are deluded or intentionally lying  marksashton | 12/10/03
Microsoft can't compete... They just sue  shawkins | 12/09/03
Gimme a break  marksashton | 12/09/03
I'd agree with you, if not for the way MS is reacting  Michael Kelly | 12/09/03
MS is only asking that they use a different name  marksashton | 12/09/03
No, they ARE requesting a "cease&desist" on sales, too  AbsolutelyNot | 12/09/03
Are you on crack?  Rick_K | 12/09/03
Are you on heroin?  marksashton | 12/10/03
what kind of a fool...  ryusen | 12/09/03
RE: Gimme a break  MicroSucks | 01/06/04
They can't have it all !  NT Admin | 12/09/03
Robertson/Lindows = Bottom Feeder  marksashton | 12/09/03
Microsoft does not own the English language.  DonnieBoy | 12/09/03
Speaking of stealing  AbsolutelyNot | 12/09/03
Gates/Microsoft = Bottom Feeder  Rick_K | 12/09/03
Whose rights are we talking about here?  Masamune | 12/09/03
Our's  Lunpa | 12/09/03
Whiners  StorageGuru | 12/09/03
Breaking News  jasonp@... | 12/09/03
Breaking news: you're a doof  marksashton | 12/09/03
as i asked before...  ryusen | 12/09/03
Re: Breaking news: you're a doof  Rick_K | 12/09/03
And remember how Lindows started...  Anton Philidor | 12/09/03
Good post - one clarification  marksashton | 12/10/03
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