RE: Explaining Linux

["Paul Sims" <nospam [at] lombard.co.uk>]

There you have the paradox. You want a decent pc, but the current state of 
development of the PC is almost entirely down to the success of Windows, 
creating bloatware, requiring better hardware, allowing bloatier 
bloatware..............

We have Bill Gates & Co. to thank for lower memory prices and a gazillion 
posts of "will my winmodem work in linux?".


>
> 	While agreeing with you, I must say that the point that _really_
> pisses me off is the fact that even if (as you mention) you only need
> Word 6, and you need to buy a new computer, you won't find anything with
> less than a zillion megs (that's for the gfx card, times by 1e6 to get
> an idea of what you'll get on the motherboard), sound cards, modems...
> While all this is very nice, and all, I wish I could just get hold of a
> decent computer. I just wished that microsoft had been happy with the
> 640k so people wouldn't be ripped off.
>
> 	Mind you, I like this sort of brilliant soundcards for a tenner
> and stuff like that, but I am on the market for a cheap PC for Word
> Processing and stuff like that, and it seems that unless I decided to do
> some dodgy deals with some "low life characters" :) I can only buy a P3
> with specs that would leave NASA frightened...
>
> 	Regards,
> 	Jose


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