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Let me guess, you're Bill Gates and Shrub2000 is Steve Ballmer?

Nope. I keep asking the Linux gurus for help here (trying to switch away from MS), but to no avail. It seems like us Linux newbies are too much trouble here, and in the news groups. Oh well.

Believe me if there were a comerecially viable,
(mac is not commercially viable for me so don't bother)
way to get into a linux system I would. But, I have
purchased all this software I use in business and
there is no way out of the the microsoft monopoly.
(and now it is a legally recognized monopoly)
I feel microsoft is a large "me too" second rate software
writer. But then again vhs was second rate to beta.

oh well. back to the garage.

Nope. I keep asking the Linux gurus for help here (trying to switch away from MS), but to no avail. It seems like us Linuxnewbies are too much trouble here...

Probably because help-desk questions are quite usually considered off-topic. Not that I don't do this myself sometimes. :) You've probably noticed that the threads that do digress to technical discussions generally end up focusing on network administration and Java and the sorts of things that the techmeisters like Bush2000 and Innocentbystander are concerned with.

I'm a Linux newbie myself, and would love a forum to discuss Linux, but it shouldn't be done in the middle of a political discussion. I'm wondering if our intrepid founder and the moderators would mind a separate thread for Linux desktop questions? How about it Jim? Is such a thing too far from your original concept for FreeRepublic?