Disk on Key slowly getting smaller

[D. Michael McIntyre]

On Sunday 09 March 2008, Knapp wrote:
> The reason I tried Linux was because Windows of the time was so
> unstable! I would never had tried Linux if Window's Blue Screen of
> Death had not been popping up almost every day....

I tried it because I was ranting at some friends who were Linux users, and one 
of them said I could continue ranting after I had looked at it for myself.  I 
was running 100% Linux within a month after or something.

Linux (Mandrake 8.1 in that case) seemed a lot more stable than Windows of the 
day for sure, but that wasn't the whole story.  I guess it just rekindled my 
old DOS hacker spirit.  Windows is pretty boring, because you're so limited 
in how you can tweak things (especially without paying money for little 
addons.)

Unstable, though, it's harder to argue that when comparing against Windows XP 
SP2.  I've never seen a BSOD on Windows XP of any vintage, and it has 
generally been stable enough to do the job when maintained correctly.

I just hate using it, because the look and feel are so childish and bland in 
comparison with KDE.  I feel the same about GNOME, which seems to my eye to 
have copied so many of the worst things about Windows that I can't understand 
why people are always saying KDE is the more Windows-like of the two big 
competing Linux desktops.

Windows with KDE might be tolerable enough.  Windows without KDE is tolerable 
enough these days that I might not have wound up here if I hadn't come right 
when I did.  It's hard to say.  The big thing working in favor of Kubuntu and 
friends now is that I hate change, and I'm comfortable with this stuff.  I 
barely know my way around a Windows system anymore.

Plus it's all free, as in gratis, and that never hurts.

Unless you count the ocean of time I've spent working on and around Rosegarden 
anyway.
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D. Michael McIntyre