Linux is not...

From: Ed Cregger (ecregger_at_homtail.com)
Date: 06/11/05 

Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 00:06:29 -0400

Linux is not the viable alternative to Microsoft's nonsense that many of we
Windows users had hoped.

I have been gaining experience with various Linux distros over the past few
months. It has become abundantly clear that this is not the operating system
that myself and many other disgruntled Microsoft users have been looking
for.

We are looking for something less complicated and easier to use than
Windows. Linux ain't it. We are looking for an operating system that takes
care of trivial issues by itself and that doesn't bother us with stupid
questions all of the time. Linux surely ain't it. We do not wish to know
anything about the internal workings of a computer. We could care less.
Linux ain't it.

Now, for some enterprising group of brilliant minds, somewhere in the world,
including here, get busy working on a Window's replacement right now. Make
it so that I don't have to ever worry about a virus or worm crashing and
defiling my computer. Make it so that I can still remain connected to the
internet, but make it so that no one can put anything on my computer, or
take off anything from my computer, that is not to my advantage. Screw the
data gatherers and their merchant buddies. My computer does not exist for
them to make profit.

I once was a computer hobbyist. I studied reams of books that taught the
Basic programming language and learned DOS until I became fairly proficient.
In less than a decade, all that I had learned became obsolete and
irrelevant. I said "never again" and now I only learn the minimum of what I
have to know to use my computer as a productive tool. But, alas, I am
growing tired and weary of trying to keep up with an ever expanding amount
of data to learn. It must stop now.

My microprocessor controlled automobiles, microwave ovens, television sets,
etc., never once tell me that I must update my antivirus files, or that I
need to install a new operating system upgrade. Yet, they work without
complaint. That is what I expect of my home/office computers. It can be
done, but it will only be done by those programmers/coders that have a new
vision of what a PC should be. These are the folks that I will support. Even
if it is Microsoft that does the deed, at a fair price.

Thanks for the help that many of you have given. It is appreciated.

Ed Cregger