🚀 go-pugleaf

Onideus Mad Hatter wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 11:46:14 -0800, catchme <someone@somewhere.net>
> wrote:
> 
>> Rev Turd Fredericks wrote:
>>> Shenan Stanley wrote:

>>>>
>>> After your assertion that personal experience is "inaccurate (at best)", 
>>> your whole post has become a meaningless diatribe.
>> actually he has eloquently described why every major o/s has the same 
>> fundamental flaw: feature creep and bug-fix/ patches.....in other words, 
>> bloatware.
>> I can only hope that his follow- up post will be an announcement of a 
>> new o/s he and/or some friends built from the ground up.
> 
> No, actually he missed a rather large and very important issue and the
> fundamental reason as to *WHY* so many people have trouble with their
> software.
> 
> Can't guess what it is?
> 
> Let me ask you this...what is your SOFTware running on?
> 
> Yeah, that's right, HARDware.  If you're running your software with
> shit grade, factory seconds, refurbished garbage that you bought off
> eBay or pulled out of some fuckin Dell shit box...yeah...yer gonna be
> having all ~sorts~ of trouble gettin that bitch stay up for longer
> than five minutes without some kind of system crash.  I've found that
> a good 9 out of 10 times whatever "problem" a user is having is either
> because they're a fuckin idiot with a short between the keyboard and
> chair, or they're running their system on shit grade hardware.
> 

hardware and user intelligence are factors to consider, yes, but one has 
gotta admit that if you were the best god-damn software designer there 
was and knew whatever your favorite o/s is, inside and out, and had a 
rig so screaming fast that it would take the mid- market 4 years to 
catch up, would you still be happy with your o/s, even after you 
tinkered around with it beyond what the manufacture expressly authorised?
Factor in high computer aptitude and training, and solid-state hardware, 
and you're still left with over-written software- with the exception, 
perhaps of a few notable linux distros such as Damn Small Linux.