Martin - > friends, > > it is with sad eyes that i must say this, but this is it, i am leaving > the linux world. good bye! > > this decision is not done lightly. it was a long time in the making. > it started when i met my wife. confronted with her windows laptop i had > to think long and hard whether i could tolerate windows in my home or if > i should stay single. in the end my wife won. > > then i discovered 3d online games. nice, but unplayable under linux. > even with wine, it just leads to whining. > > now my wife is pregnant, and more and more she pushes me to actually > earn some money. the days where i could work for free on a free > operating system are gone. i need to bring money in to feed the baby, > and as you know, noone gets fired for using windows, so that's that. > > the last straw was actually this announcement: > http://www.rpath.com/corp/2010-press-releases/806-11152010 > > conary is available on windows! > > what more do i need? > > think about it. most windows software is not that bad. it's the > packaging that's horrible. the lack of assurance that installing some > software will not overwrite some dlls of another program, the inability > to really cleanly uninstall software and undo changes that an > inastallation did. all these issues are now a thing of the past. > > pike and roxen, two other mainstays in my life also run on windows, even > chrome, my favourite browser, and for ssh there is the ever excellent > putty. so there is really nothing for me to miss. > > and hence, as i gain more and more experience with windows thanks to the > games i am playing there, i'll quickly pick a top windows admin job and > be able to make my wife happy. > > i wish my friends in the foresight linux development team good luck! > > good bye, and thanks for all the fish! > > greetings, martin.
Indeed, I am troubled with this move of yours. But I respect it and kinda saw it coming. In fact, when the LUGS did the spot check of the machines of it's members, no one was actually RUNNING Linux. And it has been that way from the very beginning. Yes, me too. Earlier this morning, the Hurd project finally released [0] and I am moving out of Linux to Hurd. As such I am writing to the LUGS exco to request for an EGM to get ourselves renamed to HUGS. Harish [0] http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-0.401/hurd-0.401.iso _______________________________________________ LUGS Mailing list - [email protected] List FAQ: http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq Info page: http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet To unsubscribe send an empty email to: [email protected]
