[NCLUG] Re: Thoughts on Linux Users

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 12:58:57PM -0700, Daniel Herrington wrote:
>On Nov 11, 2007, at 11:13 PM, Paul Hummer wrote:
>
>>Every time I use a Mac or a Windows machine, I wish I had something  
>>as robust as either yum or apt.
>
>I'm not sure what you mean, as robust as yum or apt. On the Mac I  
>install a new application by just dragging the application to the  
>Applications folder.

This is one thing that always "got" me about switching to Windows or Mac.
So I want a program to do X...  How do I find it?  On Linux I would "yum
search" or "apt-cache search" and most of the time it's there.  On a
Windows box it seems that if you want some extra software, you have to go
hunt it down and kill it.  Many of them are little islands unto themselves,
how do I trust it?

>animations on bestbuy.com and circuitcity.com. What versions are you  
>using? Am I the only one seeing this?

I have seen this at toyota.com, though now I'm seeing it on the two above
and toyota.com has the flash obscured all the time and the menus come up...
<shrug>  Flash-requiring web-sites are annoying.

>To bring it back to Linux, when I was spending all of my time trying  
>out different distros and different programs, I was distracted from  
>my real purpose (the task I was trying to accomplish with my computer  
>in the first place).

Indeed.  You can end up wasting a lot of time trying this or that trying to
get the "optimum" computer experience.  Or you can just pick something that
is close enough and live with it.  This is what I've done, though for me it
was Linux I selected.

This is one of the reasons I use Linux.  I need to be really proficient
with Linux for my work, and having to install and learn a new OS to get to
the level I'm at with Linux is going to require a lot of time, and a lot of
things I have to keep in my head that I don't now.  So, I'm using Linux.

Sean
-- 
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