[ncolug] Re: Ugh, I feel pain coming....
- From: Rob Gibson <nosbig@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: ncolug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 04:28:02 +0000
Statistics be damned; I am just thrilled to have a choice to use
open-source software and will choose it anywhere I can.
At work, I am forced to use an OS on my laptop as some of the tools I use
require the OS support. Given that restriction, I use primarily Chrome and
Firefox for browsing, plenty of Putty for SSH, and I even have the team
using the fantastic PHPIPAM web application for tracking the dozens of
subnets and hundreds of IP addresses in use.
Personally, I use open-source exclusively for all of my fixed computing.
There is nothing that I do, from an application perspective, that REQUIRES
proprietary technologies. The only exclusions to that are both related to
video drivers. At different times, I have been forced to use nVidia's
binary drivers for my video card, and I have Flash installed to watch
Youtube until they can get the HTML5 player right.
I have had an open-source phone system for years, use a Linux Kodi
distribution for my home theater, a Linux-based file server, and multiple
virtual machines. My latest experiment is running a virtual radio station
(for private use in the house with my personal music collection. It uses
Sourcefabric's Airtime software. My router runs DD-WRT, and I am
considering an upgrade in the future to a pfSense or OPNSense-powered
router again.
To pin down a number, if you exclude my work laptop, I have 0% Windows in
the house at all. I even gave up on using my old Windows XP VMs; having a
toddler means the old games I used to play on XP have been forgotten.
Rob
On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 2:18 PM Larry DiGioia <larry@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Bravo, Mike - you did indeed catch the weak point in my quoted
statistics. What Jim quoted below is exactly what I meant. I don't much
care what people use at home or in their pocket. (And my Nexus 7 doesn't
fit in a pocket.) Last but not least: a laptop is absolutely a desktop.
Jim Willeke wrote:
Good point, should have worded it better "issued Desktop and laptop
computers to users within LARGE Enterprises".
--
"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."
William James
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