Re: I am NOT a troll
From: houghi (houghi_at_houghi.org.invalid)
Date: 09/22/05
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Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 10:44:24 -0000
Rocket Robin Hood wrote:
> I just have a general complaint and maybe I'm ignorant, maybe there's a
> perfectly obvious solution - BUT -
There is and it has been posted many many many times in this group.
It is If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
> Economics-wise, as a home user, I'm finding Linux more expensive than
> Windows, more expensive than I'd like, that's for sure.
Mmm. This is a personal opnion. I use the free version and just think:
if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
> The problem is the constant updates.
I have no problems with them. But then: if it ain't broke, don't fix
it.
> I think I've bought 4-5 SuSE Pros by now - I just got
> 9.3 in June and now 10 is coming out!
Oh every 6 months there will be a new version. I still use 9.1 and it
does perfectly what I want it to do. There is no reason to buy the
latest and last, because if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
> "You don't HAVE to buy the new
> versions as soon as they come out" you say, and you're right,
So there is your solution. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
> except I
> find things like apt repositories for older versions really fade fast once
> the new one comes out;
I don't use apt. The only updates I want are security updates, not
version updates. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
> not to mention incidents where, say, I want to
> download a new version of some app, it requires the latest and greatest
> gtk and it's just not possible to do so.
http://www.opensuse.org/Additional_YaST_Package_Repositories
And what are the new versions of a program anyway that you have so much
trouble. I asume you want every latest version of every program. There
is no need for that. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
> Anyway, that's my minor spiel....everytime I hear about 10 coming out, I
> start thinking how I just paid 80$ for 9.3.....grrrrrr......
10.1 will come out around the end of march.
As I said, I still use 9.1 and it does a great job. Because I am a bit
interested in SUSE and 10.0, I will be using that when it comes out. If
I were just a user who wants to work on my PC, I would have gone for
another year with 9.1 and then step over to whatever version would be
available for free at that moment.
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