On 17 Feb 2001, Bud Rogers wrote: > On Saturday 17 February 2001 10:13, Jan van Veldhuizen wrote: > > > Why am I pegging away with Linux? If I start the Windows Setup right > > now, my system will work completely in less than 1 hour.... > > > I'm feeling 20 years in the past, when configuring all peripheral > > hardware was a specialist's job... > > Or have I become dull by Microsoft's Plug'n Play..... > > Hi Jan, > > I think you will get some flames for this, but these are valid > questions. Always you have choices and almost always the choices > involve a tradeoff. > > You can pay Microsoft to do all that hard work for you. Microsoft > tries very hard to make it easy for you to choose the Microsoft answer. > You pay Microsoft money, Microsoft makes it easy for you. As long as > you choose the Microsoft way. > > You can accept the gift of labor and love of thousands of unpaid > volunteers that have made Linux possible. They offer you not the easy > answer, but freedom. They give you many choices. They do not promise > it will be easy. > > Microsoft says, "Here is a black box that is easy to use. Do not look > inside." The Linux community says, "Here is a box full of craftsman's > tools. Learn to use the tools and you can do anything you want." > > Only you can decide which is the right choice for you. > > -- > Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.sirinet.net/~budr/zamm.html > All things in moderation. And not too much moderation either.
Well put. But the original poster said he was using *SUSE*. Now, if only he had been using Debian... Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Gnu/Debian Linux (Windows-free zone) For electronic books, skeptical essays, and over 120 book reviews, go to: http://www.cix.co.uk/~acampbell/ Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur: Aye, so can I, or so can any man But will they come when you do call to them? [Shakespeare, I Henry IV]