I have absolutely no problem w/ open source operating systems. I never said that they were bad.
I have a problem w/ people who push them like they're the be-all-and-end-all of the computing world. You wanna run Linux. That's cool. But suggesting it to a guy who can barely format his own hard drive (no offence, kyguy076) is a bit ludacris, don't you think?
I've tried several *nix oses. Among the ones I have tried were Knoppix, Red Hat, Mandrake, and Debian. While functional, I didn't really care for them all that much, so it wasn't a 'wonderful experience'. I'm sure if I had to use them day-in-day-out, I could get used to them (about the best one I used was Knoppix. Debian was alright, too. Red Hat and Mandrake were like the WinXP of the Linux world, imo). Driver support was almost non-existant for some of my devices, namely my video card (although there have been newer *nix drivers released since I last tried Linux), so it was a fight, to say the least.
I think I'll stick w/ the ease of use, tyvm.
I'm quite sure Bill doesn't lay awake at night, wondering how he can crush the Linux community. I'm also quite sure that he doesn't lay awake at night, thinking about how he can hide Linux from the masses. Anybody who wants to know can to a quick search at Google, and come up w/ a plethora of sites dedicated to Linux. If he's trying to squash Linux, he's doing a poor job of it.
I'm glad you've started folding due to these forums. I really am. Have you tried Overclockix? It's a Debian-based bootable distro, similar to Knoppix, that runs folding. It's designed by a fellow Senior member here. Do a search in the Folding forum, I'm sure you can find some data.
Perhaps there was a misunderstanding on both our parts over this. Maybe you took my comment a bit out of context. Perhaps I took your retort out of context, too.
Call a truce?