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Re: Ubuntu erased my whole hard drive

#198
From: dennis
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:30
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"Adam Albright" <AA@ABC.net> wrote in message 
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> On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:43:46 +0100, "dennis@home"
> <dennis@killspam.kicks-ass.net> wrote:
>
>>Linux does not warn the user in plain English in any distro I have
>>installed.
>
>>It may be fine for someone like me that would probably have clicked on
>>expert mode and done it manually anyway but its not much use for newbies.
>
> There you go again... pretending you are some kind of expert and
> everybody else is a dummy. You can't stop yourself can you. LOL!

Still here crazy.
I would have thought you had made enough of a fool of yourself in the vista 
groups without doing it here too.


>>> How many people can properly install Windows?
>>
>>More than Linux IME.
>
> Based on what, your reading of tea leaves? Again another fanboy simply
> mouthing his biased opinion. Damn you guys are so full of yourselves
> it gets nauseating to read any of the crap you post.
>
>>So you have to make software as idiot proof as possible if you expect 
>>those
>>people to use it.
>
> Why is it your type constantly pretends you are so smart, but
> everybody else to you is some kind of idiot?

Have you noticed whom it is that thinks they are an expert here?
A hint its you.
However I expect that everyone else is like me and knows you are just crazy.

>>
>>Do you really think the user will get the blame if an OS upgrade kills the
>>users data?
>
> Windows does the same thing when you do a clean install. I bet a lot
> of people aren't aware that's what will happen. What I always find so
> damn funny about you clowns and that's all you are in you never tire
> of ranting and raving about competing products but at the same time
> can never bring yourselves to be even a little critical of Microsoft
> when it does the same things or worse. I keep asking why, you guys
> NEVER answer.
>
>>No it will be the OS and probably rightly so if the warnings are not 
>>written
>>in plain English that computer illiterates can understand.
>
> Please tell me you think Windows Vista always uses plain easy to
> follow English in it's help. I need a good laugh. Check out the double
> talk that Vista offers about UAC and file permissions for example.
>>
>>I am of the opinion that software should not be able to do harm even if 
>>the
>>user hasn't read the manuals without warning them in language they should
>>understand i.e. not computer speak as most people don't understand it.
>
> There you go again. You simply can't stop suggesting you are so
> computer smart and everybody else couldn't possibly know as much as
> you do. You have any idea what a pompous windbag you always sound
> like?
>

Have you any idea how crazy you are? 
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