Re: Linux, over hyped by the Linux community, discuss.
- From: Whirled Peas <peas@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 22:06:11 -0500
On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 22:56:21 +0000, kobold wrote:
the OS of choice for
paranoid anti capitalist anti conformist geeks, the Linux community are
often in complete denial with regards to the competition.
I can comment to this one point. I am not a "standard" Linux user, if
there is such a thing. I am fairly new to the Linux world in general,
being a user for the past six months. I'm no geek in the pejorative sense
of the word, just an ordinary computer user. I browse the web, write
email, read the newsgroups, watch a video now and again and do a fair
amount of writing. Linux, as a desktop OS serves just fine for my needs.
I came to Linux through someone suggesting Ubuntu to me. I was so very,
VERY sick of the need to reformat my hard drive every six or so months to
get rid of the windows slow-down and the spyware that weekly sweeps by two
different anti-spyware programs always seemed to find. I'd been using
nothing but freeware programs on my PC for a year or more and decided that
the next logical step was to go to a free OS. I dual booted for just under
two days before deciding I no longer needed or wanted windows.
When I made the leap into Linux, I knew next to nothing about it and how
things worked in it. I *still* know next to nothing, but I don't really
need to because, for me, it works. I think that is the bottom line for 95%
of users. Does it work? 'Work' might mean many different things to
different people.
Every day in the Ubuntu forums, I see people like myself who are not
geeks. They are people who are dissatisfied with Windows for various
reasons and they want a change. I don't think any of them, myself
included, think that any particular Linux distro will one day rule the
world or bury Microsoft or anything else like that.
There will always be the intense hobbyists who compile their own kernels
and whatnot. But I see more and more people who are not "anti conformist
geeks" who are coming to Linux every week. I, for one, will never go back
to Windows. There are simply no compelling reasons to and many to stay
here where I can do what I darn well please with my programs . . .
including break them so they don't work.
Windows used to do that for me, now I can choose to do it myself, thank
you very much.
I *had* a point when I started, but I am getting older . . .
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