[Linux-Anyway] Re: computer's acting up
- From: Horror Vacui <horrorvacui@xxxxxxx>
- To: Linux-Anyway@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 13:11:10 +0200
Mercy wrote:
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>>>>>I will install linux, one day, when things aren't so hectic.
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>>but linux is so cool and fast when compared with windows, even though I
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>still
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>>drop back to windows occaisionally to play a game or 2 I would only stay
>>there at the most 2 hours before becoming bored and going back to linux :)
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>Yeah, but you know what you're doing in Linux :)
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No, he only thinks he does :-)
He's quite right about windows. If I didn't use Linux I think I'd quite
enjoy w2k - compared with the previous versions it's much better (read:
more like Linux). After using Linux (provided you know a little bit
about it), you're spoiled for other OS's. You find yourself missing the
features you didn't even know existant when you were exclusively in the
MS-world. Most importantly, it's a nicer world to be in. The apps are
written solely for your benefit, you are free to download and use them,
you can change them or contact the author. There's a spirit of
good-fellowship, will to contribute to a good cause, share knowledge,
help... Technically, Linux is better than MS, but that's not the point -
even if it were worse, the ethical reasons outweigh everything else.
There was a thread started by Scott that I wanted to reply to, but
somehow never got around to doing it, I think it was called "So why then
is MS number #1" - quite a polemical question, because it implies to
advocate Windows where it doesn't, and fails completely to mention the
ethical aspect of it. No discussion over Linux should be led using
technical arguments only (except perhaps admins trying to decide whether
they need Linux of MS on a server), because you can't separate Linux
from its origins. Windows printer support might be better, the whole OS
might be better overall - but that's not a valid argument.
Linux is commie stuff, a communist ideal that has become reality. The
only valid argument you can have against communist ideals (unless you're
a selfish, greedy skunk) is that it can't work (that is, if you don't
mix up Russia, China, North Korea, the red Khmer etc. with communism -
Stallman is not Stalin), and that's what I've been unsure about for a
long time. I know now it can (the actual source of anxiety right now is
that I know it can be effective when fighting something, but I'm not
sure if it would keep the edge if there was nothing to fight against -
I wonder whether the development would slow down or stop if Linux was to
win). I hope the commie paradigm of Linux will win, and spill over to
other things the humanity does.
> I gotta try to remember
>stuff all over again... are you sure you guys want me on this list when i do
>finally reinstall linux? <g>
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But of course! I'll be leaving the group when you start reinstalling
though.... ;-)
Cheers
Horror Vacui
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