On 11/13/10 13:53, Rich wrote: > Who ever you are, I can't even spell Half of the words you sent me > much less trying to read it and understand it. I just asked a simple > question about how to change odp to jpg I'm not a computer wiz > Thank you > > > > > /-------Original Message-------/ > > /*From:*/ Bruce_Martin <mailto:[email protected]> > /*Date:*/ 11/13/2010 1:38:42 PM > /*To:*/ [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > /*Subject:*/ Re: [users] changing OSes. > > 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. > > > - > Best Regards, Bruce Martin >
I do not know what you think, but I started PC based computing with MS/PC-DOS, then Win 95/98/2000/XP/Vista and by the Baby Duck idea, I should keep using Windows for all my PC based computing. Well I do not. All but one of my computers are Ubuntu based with only one Vista laptop to deal with the hardware that does not work with Ubuntu. I prefer Linux over Windows for most things I do. So I am not a "baby duck" attached to my Windows OS. Sorry, this is not a valid idea. I also started with MS Office. So why do I prefer OOo?????
