Re: Why I'm staying with WinDoZe

From: David W Studeman (eat_your_own_spam_at_hormel.com)
Date: 12/05/04 

Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 14:32:54 -0800

On Sat, 04 Dec 2004 06:14:16 +0000, Labrat wrote:

> Tried the Linux, ... Really tried hard!
>
> Done the DOS thing since IBM DOS 1.0
> BBSs long before The "Internet"
> Done the WinDoZe thing since 3.0
> Done the Linux stuff for a while too. RedHat 7 and SuSE 9.1.
>
> Just put SuSE 9.1 on my Win 98 machine and was happy to see it install
> flawlessly over my old RedHat 7.0 and still can't get online or install
> my GeForce 2 3D.
>
> Oh yeah, I know. Just Gzar this or Gzip that and it will find it's way
> to the proper locations. ROAD APPLES!
>
> I did all that crap with DOS remember!
>
> I'm 50 freakin' years old now. I work in the oil patch in Northern
> Alberta and make 300-400 good old canadian dollars a day. ($1.95 US) :0)
>
> Plenty of old farts like me trying Linux in it's many conflagarations
> and I just don't have;
>
> A) The Patience (I Want a computer that does everything ....
> Yesterday!!!!)
> B) The Interest (What has Linux done for me today!) C) The Brain Cells
> (Going fast pal, probably a billion a day and I can't replace my HD)
> D) The Care (I no longer care much about kickin' M$ Ass.) {Never gave
> Bill a dollar yet}
> E) The Learning Curve (Like the ski hills, getting steeper each year)
>
> As to the fear of learning something new, I graduated a chemical
> sciences program in environmental chemistry at BCIT (British Columbia
> Institute of Technology) in /90 at the age of 36. (Should have taken
> comp.sci). Became a single father in /91-/01, moved to Northern Alberta
> /01, learned how to work the patch and drive the big rigs on roads you
> could skate on for hundreds of miles, (never crashed). Now I'm learning
> how to raise a second family, operate the woodworking shop I bought and
> maintain a small acreage. Doesn't leave a lot of time for new OSs. I'm
> turning my 400+ collection of old LPs into MP3s, compiling 10,000+
> photos into web pages from my old darkroom days and chatting with you
> folks. Trying to get a decent fishing trip in is like pulling teeth. If
> I had to figure out how to do all this stuff with Linux .... I'm not
> sure I'd get it done before... I'm done. Hard sometimes to prioritize
> all this stuff.
>
> I'm sure you fellers will write me off as a waste of bandwidth but if
> Linux does't get it together pretty soon as far as hardware and
> installation implication, WinDoze is going to come out with a Linux
> compatible version (WinLin?) that will wipe open source software like
> Linux off the map.
>
> Believe it. You can bet your collective asses that Bill is spending
> tons of bucks making sure that he kicks those collective asses all the
> way back to the punch card days. (He hated doing that punch card stuff
> to get his start)
>
> I mean, there's no way Bill can buy-out Linux, but he can sure out-sell
> Linux. If he comes out with a LinDoze version that actually works he
> can out market the hell out of Linux to the tune of 90% of the home
> computer market right off the bat. He could give it away for a buck and
> kill on external programs! (Probably still be legal at a buck for the
> OS and a fiver for IE complete with Trojans)
>
> It's great to be a rebel, but most rebellions fail because they don't
> see the strengths of those they rebel against! Bill can throw BILLIONS
> of dollars to his MILLIONS of loyal employees/retailers/serfs to defeat
> or assimilate opposing OSs. (ie: WE ARE BORG)
>
> Linux arguably has a better system, less overhead, more secure yada
> yada, but the main thing to the masses is.... ease of use! Try
> explaining to my newbie mother (76 yrs) how to compile a kernel when she
> can't get her email when it's right front of her poor blind face.
>
> Linux will continue to draw the young, out-of-the-box, visionary,
> rebelious, get in the face of Bill types, and as for myself, "'long as I
> can scam Windoze for nada, viva MicroBloat"
>
> I'm still going to run my dual-boot system and try to get it working in
> both but I'll likely spend most of my time in Win98. (XP sucks big
> time!)
>
> Well, here's to you
> And here's to me.
> Forever friends
> We'll always be.
>
> And if we ever disagree......
> To heck with you and here's to me!
>
> Power to the Penguin!
>
>
> Later......
>
> Labrat...... |:^{)

Why even a PC? If you don't want to mess with Linux and you want
everything to just plain work, get a Mac! Apps like Photoshop and yes,
even MS's own Office, are better in the Mac versions hands down! The only
reason I'm still even using PC hardware is because it is here. On your
salary, I'd have a few dual G5's and then some! Don't let the clock speeds
deter you, they mean nothing as far as instructions per second goes, in
fact work is being done on a clockless processor that would be 0hz. I do
plan on running some Sparc hardware as well but I've been tinkering with
Linux for several years and I have choices other than Solaris on it. Many
of the bottlenecks of PC hardware are NOT solved by faster memory buses
and faster processor speeds. Everything needs a bridge in PC, In PPC they
don't. Of course I wish IBM made a workstation version of the S390 with
say, only 4 or so PPC64/Intel pairs but that is not related to your
issues. I love Linux but to suggest that everyone should forego having any
type of life in the real physical world just to learn it, is rather
narrow! I'm very glad not everyone in the world is as much geek as I am or
nothing would ever get done and our infrastructure as well as any activity
that hints at life in the human species, would come to a slowdown.

Dave

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