Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>> OK. So remind me... who is it that wanted to be constantly nagged 
>>> about the unused desktop icons? 
>>
>> You get offered once, and you click the box that says "stop asking."  

>> It's only nagging if you can't read.
> 
> So why does it ask me once a month?

I can only assume it's because you didn't turn it off. I got asked exactl
y once.

> Windows is fundamentally based on the concept that only one person is 
> using the PC.

Not really.  Maybe 15 years ago that was true, but not now.

>> People think getting some small number infected with malware is 
>> preferable to spending 30x as much for the software.
> 
> And I think that if I have to pay hundreds and hundreds of pounds for a
 
> mere operating system, it should at least work properly. But apparently
 
> that's just me...

I dunno. Why are you getting virus infections? I've run for decades with 
no 
virus protection and I don't have problems. Actually, I've seen exactly o
ne 
  or maybe two machines with a virus on it in my career.  Heck, I've seen
 
more viruses on 8-bit machines than I've seen on Windows.

> When Linux goes wrong, it's annoying. But given that I spent £0 on
 it, 

No, you didn't pay $0 for it. You simply didn't pay *cash* for it. Most o
f 
the companies I worked for payed hundreds of thousands of dollars a year 
to 
the people keeping the Linux systems running.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "We'd like you to back-port all the changes in 2.0
    back to version 1.0."
   "We've done that already. We call it 2.0."

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