Lan Barnes wrote:
On Fri, February 29, 2008 5:27 pm, Tracy R Reed wrote:
I got tired of doing everything for myself. I prefer to let the
distro do the boring stuff for me so I can concentrate on the
interesting stuff.
Well, that's exactly it. But "interesting stuff" differs for each of us,
no? You (or someone else) might go cross-eyed sculpting Tk front ends to
communicate with Postgres, but to me, that's a weekend of bliss.
Here, to me, is the Linux dilemma (and as I said, it applies to all life
for me -- cars, home plumbing, foreign languages). There is an
uncomfortable equilibrium between the joy of being able to do it myself,
and the pain/time investment of learning how.
I respect Gus's (grumpy ;) admonition "you'd better learn about the new
stuff." There is much truth to that. But I must draw lines somewhere.
I didn't realize that statements of fact were imbued with emotional context.
So ... I want to be able to do enough sys admin to run my home, Amarok,
MythTV, etc ... but not spend so much time on it (because it doesn't
fascinate me) that I neglect what is fun for me, including life outside
computing. And I fear that this attitude has led me to fall behind.
If anyone has a magic bullet that fixes this (no, not one through my
head), I'm ready to hear you.
I don't have a magic bullet, all I have is one of your statements in my
quote file:
<quote>
Ah, Linux ... we pay as we go and the currency is learning :-)
-Lan Barnes, KPLUG list
</quote>
Gus
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