It's true. I hate to say it, because philosophically I have a major
problem with both Bill Gates *and* Steve Jobs because I resent their heavy
handed dictatorial style. And I do keep trying Linux on the desktop (or
more exactly, on the laptop) trying to convince myself of it. But when it
comes down to it, the time I spend using Linux on the laptop is time spent
tweaking, tuning, fixing, or whatever, and when I actually want to
accomplish something with the computer instead of spending time figuring
out *how* to accomplish it, I use the Mac.
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Community College of Vermont
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Zhë dishthe shthál ñe lhôñ svóná záxá.
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--On March 15, 2008 8:23:59 PM -0400 Nick Husher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
because Mac's cost too much?
...
ooh, ooh! because it's the best way I have to spend a
weekend working furiously in front of a computer and
get absolutely nothing accomplished?
I have a nerd job that pays accordingly, which makes the mac tax (part A)
bearable. Part B (spending a weekend writing a new grub.conf or whatever)
will never, ever be bearable to me. So in every sense, I agree with you;
for servers, Linux is fine. For my desktop, I want as few impediments to
getting what I want. It selling out to Steve Jobs and his Reality
Distortion Field is the cost of doing that, so be it.
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