Pointer: blog post, "RANT: Is the Linux dream a myth?"

[blnchflr]

I came across this blog post in the openSUSE forums: RANT: Is the Linux dream a myth?

I've met a few characters that are living the Linux dream or at least claiming to. But here's the rub... is there anyone who's exclusively using it? I don't mean "I've got Linux installed on my USB stick" or "I dual boot". Is there anyone who is actually using Linux as there sole operating system. Booting into everyday to check their email, write their documents, develop their code, surf the web and yes.. play their games. I fear there is not.

Having used Linux exclusively for almost a year, and knowing people who've been Linux-exclusive for longer than that, not to mention MAC USERS, the author seems naive or sheltered. Which surprises me, as he's a coder - apparently I'm prejudiced about coders :o)

Comments

[blnchflr]

it's certainly heads and shoulders above ME Vista
Don't knock ME! Sure it sucked in some respects, and there was so much software that didn't work on it, especially after XP. But I would have preferred ME on my new computer compared to Vista; I bet it would have been super-fast! Not to mention: I ran ME for 7-8 years without reinstalling - ok, so mostly because I didn't know about reinstalling. But while a reinstalling surely would have tightened things up, it really didn't run half-bad on 122 MB RAM!

Tangent, in case you like such things: <del> is the new valid html for deleted text <3

[dragonwolf]

Tangent, in case you like such things: <del> is the new valid html for deleted text <3

Hah, good to know. I don't generally use it, so it's one tag I don't keep up with. Seems rather arbitrary to change that, but *shrug*.

[blnchflr]

I use it a lot for humorous purposes online :o) ! It is my understanding it is meant to be used in conjunction with <ins>, in which case I'm still using it wrong, as I never bother with <ins>. At any rate, also in my understanding, <s>/<strike> was always pure formatting, like <i> and <b>, whereas <del> is recognized by screenreaders? So it's an accessibility thing, which I'm all for.

[dragonwolf]

That makes sense.

<3 your icon, by the way. :)

[blnchflr]

Thanks, I'm fond of it, even though the font type (and slightly too high positioning) bothers me now. It was made on the horrenduous image manipping software that came with ME - for one thing, it could only add text to high-res images; no matter what you started out with (say, a nicely cropped 100x100 icon, which just needed the finishing touch of text), the software would scale the image to 2048x[at least 2048]. Scaling back down, text often looked crap.

I think I need a "Awww, ME, you don't deserve your bad rep. Except you totally do. But still, *pets*" icon :o)

[dragonwolf]

Ew at the software thing, but then, that was circa 2000 and crappy software.

ROFL at the icon idea.