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Rick Fry wrote:
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If you're happy being a user, that's fine. There are plenty of people
in the world that just want things to work when they sit down at them.
My parents are those kinds of people. I have no problem with it, just
don't shit on the parade of those of us who really LIKE making things
work together that probably don't belong together.
There is a price you pay (right now) for using Linux. That price is
diminished hardware support "out of the box". It could even be as steep as
"it will never work with Linux" (in the case of WinModems). Most of us are
perfectly willing to pay that price for an operating system and supporting
applications that don't nickel and dime us to death trying to get some work
done.
I don't have any inkling of encouraging my parents to move to Linux.
The things they want to do are not available with it. However, they
also don't have the kind of power and flexibility on their machine that I
have with mine.
To each their own...
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Actually the same thing can be said for all the Windows bashing folks that
have the same amount of troubles getting that to work. I do have the "power
and flexibility" but obviously not the right kind. I just became unemployed
so I obviously don't have the financial resources to go out and buy the
equipment necessary to make Linux work as ideally as my Windows does. But,
that will hopefully change as I have several interviews scheduled for next
week. Hopefully my 20 years of working with computers will be good for
something.
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