Girls and Linux

I am at another Internet message board where there *might* be humans without Y chromosomes; in other words, girls. Naturally, I feel compelled to attempt to infer who is female to immediately add her to my list of possible impossible mates and masturbatory catalog.

People of unspecified genre start posting. Somebody's cheesy nickname and unconventional way to write and ask for help catches my attention. Suddenly, the subject mentions "Linux". At this point, I immediately discard any suspicion and am 100% sure that the subject is male. Why is that?

Is my attempt at locating female life forms in the Internet futile due to the "no girls on the Internet" principle? I am eager to read your comments or any associated papers on the absence of progesterone in our connected human pool, and its correlation with open source operating systems.

You are kidding arent you ?
Are you saying that this linux can run on a computer without windows underneath it, at all ? As in, without a boot disk, without any drivers, and without any services ?

That sounds preposterous to me.

If it were true (and I doubt it), then companies would be selling computers without a windows. This clearly is not happening, so there must be some error in your calculations. I hope you realise that windows is more than just Office ? Its a whole system that runs the computer from start to finish, and that is a very difficult thing to acheive. A lot of people dont realise this.

Microsoft just spent $9 billion and many years to create Vista, so it does not sound reasonable that some new alternative could just snap into existence overnight like that. It would take billions of dollars and a massive effort to achieve. IBM tried, and spent a huge amount of money developing OS/2 but could never keep up with Windows. Apple tried to create their own system for years, but finally gave up recently and moved to Intel and Microsoft.

Its just not possible that a freeware like the Linux could be extended to the point where it runs the entire computer fron start to finish, without using some of the more critical parts of windows. Not possible.

I think you need to re-examine your assumptions.