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I've been following these Linux threads with some interest because I
personally feel that Linux is going to, at some point, overtake
Microsoft and I also believe that it will be a Linux/Apple world with
Microsoft a way distant 3rd.

What I fail to understand however, is why Linux users seem to be so
nasty, obscene and self righteous.

This is COLA. Worst of the Worst.

Some of the comments made to the
fine folks in rec.audio.pro are just uncalled for.

The fine folks? Um...yeah.... Thats why they kepp trolling and
crossposting over here. Your credibility just about hit zero.

Is this what Linux advocacy is about?
You people seem to strut your operating system all over the place
claiming how superior it is to other systems, yet when you are called
to produce any kind of proof, you go scurrying about calling people
trolls, changing the subject, going on the offensive and so forth.
It seems that the Linux ehthusiast's bag of tricks is stuffed to the
brim with various techniques designed to deflect the shrapnel that
flies your way.

Huh? Proof? Look at uptimes of years or more. Solid security
records. Your problems with applications have nothing to do with the
OS.

That's all well and good, but to put it simply it just makes most of
you look like a bunch of pablum puking babies.
Most of the discussions in rec.audio.pro revolved around making audio
at the professional level using Linux.
Who cares if I can alter the source code?
Who cares if there are 300 different versions of Linux?
Who even has the time to play with an evaluate them?

Then don't waste your time with Linux. More importantly don't waste
our time.

We need a tool to do a particular job and spending $500.00 for a piece
of software is an investment. I want to USE the noise reduction plugin
for SoundForge, I don't want to design one nor do I have the skills to
do such.
For 99 percent of the rec.audio.pro community, having the source code
means nothing and having 300 different versions of Linux just clouds
the issue.

Then why are you even talking about using Linux? Use a Mac. Now go
away.

Can Linux do what Samplitude/Sonar/Protools etc can do?

No OS can do that. Applications do that. Something idiots never seem
to get.

Doubtful, but it can come close and for some close is good enough.
For others, they need to use the heavy guns.
However, the Linux enthusiasts had better start learning how to deal
with laypeople who are not programmers, but may be experts in THEIR
chosen field.

Why? Linux is made by the people working on it for themselves. That
is the whole point of open source. You have the ability to join in and
help work on a project to make sure it meets your personal needs.
Don't like it? Then don't use it.

Doctors running a practice are interested in healing people not sorting
thorough source code and certainly not using programs that make it
difficult to share their data with their collegues or insurance
companies (OpenOffice for example, nice program but everyone on earth
is using Micorsoft Office).

I'm not using MS Office, so i guess not everyone on earth is using it.

If I can leave the Linux people with one parting thought, it is to stop
acting so dammed arrogant and start realizing that not everyone is a
geek whose life revolves around an operating system that few outside of
the Linux world even know about.

Then don't use it. Stop wasting our time with your drivel, you can't
even distiguish between an OS and applications.