I think that the majority of our people duel boot or have a Windows system on some level. I am one of the purists because I think that managing two systems is twice as much work. I don't even use KDE for that reason.
But we don't want to go in the direction of the site spending a lot of time on Windows issues. People who have Windows paid for it and the company that took their money should help them, not us. I find the quality of the "customer service" better with Linux than with Windows, once you are out of warranty. Joe is never far away and can help an inexperienced guy without sounding condescending. I am a retired teacher and he would have made it in teaching. Mark On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 14:48 -0400, Derek J. Balling wrote: > On Jul 26, 2010, at 2:35 PM, Mark Wallace wrote: > > We need to remind ourselves that we are the open source people and we > > only deal with proprietary software and politics to the degree that it > > facilitates helping open source people use their systems. > > I just want to touch on this one particular point. > > I love Linux. I use it on 99.9% of my servers (there's always that one damned > application) at work. In that respect, a LUG is an eminently useful tool both > for me to learn from and to give back to in the form of knowledge learned. > > However, that is *not* to say, however, that I "only deal with proprietary > software... to facilitate helping open source people". I love my Mac Book > Pro, running OS X. It is bad-ass, and frankly, IMHO, is everything Linux > could have been on the desktop if there'd been some sort of overseer pushing > it in the right direction. And you can have my Mac when you pry it from my > cold dead hands. > > Does that make me "not" a Linux guy? I don't think so. > > There are some of us who are of the mindset that "every tool for the > appropriate task", and if that tool is closed-source, so be it, and if that > task is open-source, so be it. > > Just my $0.02 worth. :-) > > Cheers, > D > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > Aug 4 - Samba > Sep 1 - BOINC > Oct 6 - Creating Firefox Extensions _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Aug 4 - Samba Sep 1 - BOINC Oct 6 - Creating Firefox Extensions
