Dear Users:
1) As a generality: Hybridism of any kind has its upside and its
downside (law of opposites is eternal and ubiquitous.)
2) Versatility and complexity go hand in hand.
3) Therefore anything that contains a degree of hybridism; i.e.
Hybridism itself - has these pros and cons:
3a) Pro: Hybridism brings the added versitility and capabilities
of each of its specialised and unique components,. This proportionality
also applies to the closeness of the inter-relations between the various
hybridised elements.
3b) Con: The greater the degree of the hybridism, and the
greater the degree of close integration, the more complex it is to learn
and understand, as is necessary to extract the benefits.
Finally to me this appears to be simply common sense, so why do so many
have difficulty with it?
Using or changing from one OS to another is just an example of this.
Each one has its pros and cons, and even If I only used, say, Windows
XP, I could sill use multiple installations on the same machine with a
single license to do things which I could not do with a single
installation. This is particularly true with Twain applications and
scanners or cameras that use specialised software and drivers, as one of
mine does.
On 11/12/2010 20:05, Mark C. Miller wrote:
On 11/06/2010 02:05 PM, Twayne wrote:
<snip>
Most peope
are happy with whichever OS they started with and don't think much about
changing, whether that's good or bad I don't care; it's just a fact.
Twayne`
</snip>
It's called BDS -- Baby Duck Syndrome. Just like a baby duck, most
computer user "imprint" on the first OS they use. And can become
rather rabid about changing (that's part of a theory called Cognitive
Dissonance). Changing the "imprint" can be difficult, but it's
possible. I go back to MS-DOS and hated the thought of windows when I
first saw it; I got better. I was pushed into the Unix world for
awhile, but in reality I was thoroughly a "Windows guy" when I got a
job teaching at a high school that was a Mac [infested!] environment.
I stayed with my preference to Windows. Then a friend introduced me
to Ubuntu (I didn't start until 8.04), and I've not looked back.
Still, I get on line with an old friend from time-to-time and re-hash
those early days when we thought we were HS.
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Best Regards, Bruce Martin
