[TriLUG] I Feel Dirty (a confession)

Greg Brown gregbrown at mindspring.com
Tue Apr 27 16:48:23 EDT 2004


I love my G3 iBook (imagine if I had a G4 iBook.. how strongly would I 
feel then?!?!?).

I still have plenty of Linux on my work laptop, work desktop server 
thingy, and all my home servers.

But as much as I love my Linux boxes I love my Mac just as much.


Greg

On Tuesday, Apr 27, 2004, at 14:28 US/Eastern, Jason S. Evans wrote:

> 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
>> --
>> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
>> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."--Benjamin Franklin
>> " 'Necessity' is the plea for every infringement of human liberty; it
>> is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."--William Pitt
>>
>>
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