Ted Roche wrote: > On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Vince Teachout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Nah. Just musta had extra caffiene in the Earl Grey after lunch. > Please don't take it personally. > I tried not too, I was unfortunately still steaming from a prior e-mail, also from someone I generally admire and agree with. :-) I've been cringing ever since I hit the SEND button. At least I DID clean it up SOME before sending!
> Well, come on, Vince, flamewars are never fun if everyone is > *reasonable* <g>. I thought I threw in enough <g>. Apparently not. No > offense intended. > > I just finished mentioning the <g>s in that message off line to someone else, believe it or not. Just a rotten day, and not feeling well on my part. I apologize for flying off the handle. > > I hear ya. I'm an extremist with 12 computers in the house. Well, one > is Laura's. And we share a couple of the others. And there are > multiple distros on many of them, and Windows 2000 and XP and OS X, > too. So, throwing another distro on the fire is just a hobby. > For me, I only have the one laptop, and am not currently in a position to get more. Now that I have virtualbox, though, it is getting a lot easier to compare Distros. I may end up having to make my "choice" soon, though -- I just yesterday got a "purple line of doom" on my monitor. When it has its own Internet nickname - you know you're screwed.. > > It's not a problem, that's the point. Choices are a fact of life, and > more choices are better, even if they make us "unhappy." > > This is the part that really confused me. I honestly didn't think I was saying anything against choices in my original post. I just was saying (or trying too) that I understood where Allen was coming from. I don't have the original post in front of me, and the coffee is NOT working today, so maybe I failed to be clear. I do like choices. I even like that there are 360+ distro choices. It's just slowing my decision process down, is all. And that's just how I, personally, go about everything - that damn ol' Virgo "analyize everything to death" trait. On the plus side, I have a whole collection of single purpose distro's that totally kick ass. Including one that does nothing at all except crack Windows passwords, which I was able to use to the horror and gratitude of our local librarian when they got inadvertently locked out of their system. :-) > I think the problem with our conversation is that I'm such a poor > communicator that you aren't understanding that I'm agreeing with you. > Choice is Good. Choice is Hard. > And I'd probably have normally gotten that, too, if I wasn't in such a pissy mood today. Sorry. > Ooo. I've been out-Pc'd! What do you use to brew it? A ball or a > strainer or do you make your own bags? I've tried to get Yerba Mate > working with a ball, but mostly just make a mess. > Ooops. About to out-PC you again. I use a gold permanent filter, from Harney and Son's (they're located near here) http://www.harney.com/teaac.html As for the Yerba Mate.. Uhm...... a gourd and a bombilla. :-) (This came up last year - I can't remember what Ed uses, but I do remember he outdid me on the Yerba) > If you decided to standardize on Lindows, I might think that was > bizarre and might want to ask you why, to understand the criteria of > your choice. > See, I just misread that the first time, and thought you said YOU decided to standardize on Lindows. I was going to say that was one I knocked out of the running right off the bat. I think I should just shut down and go home..... > There's a corollary to the Paradox of Choice, I'd like to nickname it > the Paralysis of Choice, although I'm willing to bet some clever way > has already coined that, that says it's better to eat some jelly today > than no jelly today, But in my case, the jelly in the store is pretty, but I DO have jelly already back home... :-) > > Yeah, like I said. Maybe I need to lay off the extra-caffienated > beverages after lunch... but my point was that the least acceptable > choice is not to choose. I know you are not doing that; you're > evaluating the different distros and trying to pick the ultimate one. > More or less. I'm trying to pick the one that A) does the most of what I want out of the box, and B) that I like working with. I'll then load it with what's missing. The funny thing is, I was up and running on the "perfect" (for me) solution - Suse. And then Bill moved in, so when that box died, Suse was out of the running, and I was back to the drawing board. I came THIS close to using Knoppix, but even with working with Bob Patterson on it for a few weeks, it wouldn't connect to the Internet on this laptop. Damn! (I did install it on my daughter's hand-me-down laptop, though - after formatting Windows off!) > > One of my fellow volunteers at the LUG is a big Gentoo fan, and will > gladly explain why, in detail, if you're foolish enough to ask. > Knoppix is Gentoo. I like it too. :-) >> Anyway, I will eventually move to Linux, when I'm ready, and after I've >> made my own choice, in my own way. I just won't be stupid enough to >> mention it on this group, is all >> > > Too bad. I'd hoped you'd enjoy getting a hard time about it. > > Time to get to work, then... > > Pissy. Did I mention I was being pissy today? I was really hoping no one would bother to reply to my post. 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