[TriLUG] I Feel Dirty (a confession)

Jason S. Evans theologygeek at gmail.com
Tue Apr 27 14:28:52 EDT 2004


Don't feel bad, I installed Windows 2000 on my home machine last week
in order to play Halo for PC.  I felt so ashamed.  I had to switch
back, because I couldn't live without KDE at home, and so I am selling
my copy of Halo for $30.

Jason

On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 11:46:56 -0400, Ken Mink <kmtrilug at nc.rr.com> wrote:
> 
> I've been using Linux as my desktop OS at work and at home pretty much
> full time since I first loaded Slackware from a huge stack of floppies
> in '95. Since I've worked as a *NIX sysadmin and then a *NIX developer,
> having a UNIXy desktop was wonderful.
> 
> For last 2 1/2 years I've been using my personal laptop as my main
> machine at work and then as my secondary machine at home. It started out
> as RH7.3 and is now running FC1. It was time to replace this workhorse
> and tomorrow it's replacement arrives; a shiny new Powerbook. Normally
> the arrival of a new toy of this magnitude fills me with the same
> anticipation that I felt on Christmas Eve as a child. This time it's
> different. I feel like I'm cheating on my wife or I've given up on an
> old friend. I just feel dirty.
> 
> I do not plan on loading Yellowdog or any other of the Mac Linux
> distros. As I said, this is my main machine for work. As much as I enjoy
> the challenge that Linux sometimes poses, I can't afford the downtime at
> work. While Linux makes a great desktop OS, my experience has been that
> it's not so hot on laptops(ACPI anyone). I know it will get there. For
> now, my productivity requires me to go elsewhere.
> 
> I'm still running 3 Linux machines at home and a dozen or so at work,
> but tomorrow will be a sad day for me just the same. It will be the end
> of an era.
> 
> Ken
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> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."--Benjamin Franklin
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> is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."--William Pitt
> 
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