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Like a red rag to a bull, claiming a Microsoft OS release is not going to be an abject failure on Slashdot is just asking for trouble.  I am currently reading the following thread and it just seems to consist pretty much entirely of uninformed* sniping.  In fact I am half way down and nobody has yet said anything good about Windows 7.

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/08/17/2151224/XP-Users-Are-Willing-To-Give-Windows-7-a-Chance

It’s ironic (like rain on your wedding day) that the Linux community, who cry MS FUD on average one out of five freetard rants are the ones that ladle it out like it’s candy.  They just plain make up shit and repeat fully debunked mistruths simply to make themselves feel tingly about Microsoft’s failure and imminent demise.  Look at some of the gems that people are saying:

“Poor DOS support for games”
- Do I even need to justify this with an answer?

“but requiring hardware produced in 2010s.” and “1GHz/512ram/pata hdd i have 22 seconds from ntldr to busy cursor gone. windows 7 doesn’t even install on that”
- Windows 7 would install and run fine on that.  This guy clearly mislabelled his ‘Windows Vista’ talking points, either that or he knows nothing.

“Windows 7 is a Service Pack to Windows Vista” and “I heard even 1G of RAM is not enough”
- Looks like he got his facts from Mr Vista Talking Points.  And tada!  they are now facts, repeat as necessary.

“I tried the RTM on Friday. No Remote Server Administration Tools. Google turns up a blog on technet with a dead link to RSAT beta. There were sundry other disappointments and annoyances, but lack of RSAT was the deal-breaker: less than an hour after it began, my Windows 7 experience ended.”
- First link on Google didn’t find my downloads!  Windows 7 Sucks! Google yourself “windows 7 rsat”.  I know how incredibly hard it is to scroll down to click the 3rd link rather than the first.

This sort of thing continues ad-nauseum.  The freetards look for something (anything) to bash Windows 7 with and then make outlandish claims about how crap it’s going to be, how nobody will use it.

Not that any of this is vaguely relevant to my point.  My point is this – to quote Sun Tzu:

If you know the enemy
and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a
hundred battles.  If you know yourself but not the enemy,
for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.
If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will
succumb in every battle.

They don’t know their enemy.  They don’t even know themselves.  They just like talking shit as it makes them look knowledgeable, but give it a year and Linux usage will be even lower than it is now.  Truth, reality and facts are discarded if they do not present the reality they want to believe.  Facts are found and created to enforce the conclusions they want to come to.  The truth is pretty much irrelevant to the whole debate.  They had all decided Windows 7 sucked when they first heard about it.  Now they are just looking for proof.

Ubuntu ‘Moronic Mongoose’ will then be released a few years from now, featuing the same crappy cruft, problems, and cargo cult usability ripped from Windows 7 and OSX, it’ll be hailed as near perfect, revolutionary and anyone that doesn’t use it will be called a moron and an idiot, Microsoft’s doom will be foretold once again and then this whole idiotic cycle will restart.

And all of the camaraderie and tales of imminent success will continue against the backdrop of sliding support from users, manufacturers and developers (which obviously will be attributed to FUD) who have had enough of the lies and propaganda.

Could the last freetard please turn out the light?  Thanks.

* On the internet, everyone is a sysadmin and a kung-fu expert.  Fact.